DOWNTIME
Identify root causes of machine downtime and support continuous improvement programs, maximize asset utilization and ROI
ei3 DOWNTIME IDENTIFIES THE OPERATIONAL ISSUES THAT IMPACT YOUR BOTTOM LINE, AND HELPS YOU:
- Increase machine availability, resulting in higher OEE
- Generate Pareto charts that show you the true, root causes of downtime
- Minimize unforeseen repair or warranty costs
- Define your priorities for upgrade and repairs to minimize warranty costs
- Achieve situational awareness to react faster and avoid missed delivery deadlines
Our app achieves this by capturing and analyzing machine downtime events, as they occur. It categorizes these events using algorithms to capture likely cause-and-effect, allowing you to identify and tackle the most frequent causes for downtime. This allows you to address the most urgent problems first, increasing machine uptime and improving OEE.
ei3 DOWNTIME IDENTIFIES THE OPERATIONAL ISSUES THAT IMPACT YOUR BOTTOM LINE, AND HELPS YOU:
- Increase machine availability, resulting in higher OEE
- Generate Pareto charts that show you the true, root causes of downtime
- Minimize unforeseen repair or warranty costs Define your priorities for upgrade and repairs to minimize warranty costs
- Achieve situational awareness to react faster and avoid missed delivery deadlines
Our app achieves this by capturing and analyzing machine downtime events, as they occur. It categorizes these events using algorithms to capture likely cause-and-effect, allowing you to identify and tackle the most frequent causes for downtime. This allows you to address the most urgent problems first, increasing machine uptime and improving OEE.
Do we really need IIoT solutions to reduce downtime?
Can we not track it by hand?
While many facilities still document downtimes manually, it is an extremely tedious, error-prone process that requires continuous attention. Manual documentation also results in misreporting, and often greatly underestimates the amount of time and obscures the true downtime causes.
The Real Cost of Downtime
A machine being down does not “just” result in a missed deadline. The cost of non-availability in today’s data-driven, fulfillment-oriented world is significantly higher than it may appear:
Reputation and Opportunity
If client orders aren’t fulfilled on time, you cannot begin new projects without negatively impacting reputation and losing orders in the future.
Hampered Responsiveness
Downtime saps energy and diverts attention – impacting customer service, innovation, and increasing stress.
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Penalties
Formal assurances of your service/product can fall flat.
Safety
Machine-related disruptions put personnel into irregular operational environments, increasing the potential for safety-oriented issues.
Dead Capital
Machines that lie idle are investment losses, consuming attention and valuable workspace.
The ei3 Advantage
The app in real-time
Visualize & verify downtime reasons without missing a beat.
Automatic Analysis and Insights
Get to the root of the most-damaging downtime events by generating Pareto charts based on tracking and operator feedback.
Generate MTBF and MTTR Reports
Understand how long and how often an error code occurs on a machine and subsequent repair time.
AUTO-ALERT ENABLED
Use custom alerts to notify yourself or your teams of events that need attention via Email, SMS or pager.
Customize and Expand with API Choices
Create visually engaging, informative displays with the necessary variables on demand.
The ei3 Advantage
DOWNTIME in real-time
Visualize & verify downtime reasons without missing a beat.
Automatic Analysis and Insights
Get to the root of the most-damaging downtime events by generating Pareto charts based on tracking and operator feedback.
Generate MTBF and MTTR Reports
Understand how long and how often an error code occurs on a machine and subsequent repair time.
AUTO-ALERT ENABLED
Use custom alerts to notify yourself or your teams of events that need attention via Email, SMS or pager.
Customize and Expand with API Choices
Create visually engaging, informative displays with the necessary variables on demand.
Why not use conventional methods like purchasing backup machines, or increasing planned downtime to solve the problem?
Increasing planned-downtime does not ensure an overall reduction of it. More machines mean more capital cost. Preventative maintenance involves stocking up on particular infrastructure. These methods have penalties that modern manufacturers simply cannot afford, which is why they turn to IIoT solutions.
Connecting the Shop Floor to DOWNTIME
STEP 1. connect
Our edge device, the Amphion, connects to your equipment’s PLC or database. Once plugged into the machine’s control cabinet, the Amphion will interrogate the machine controllers 24×7, accurately detecting and recording downtime events.
STEP 2. measure
Based on your configuration, the event gets categorized automatically. If it can’t be, your operator can classify it using HMIs or webpages. Our robust features can analyze your plant’s KPIs and generate Pareto reports to perform root cause analysis.
STEP 3. improve
With this information your team can roll out continuous improvement programs and track progress based on data – not gut feeling.
Does this ei3 app work well with process control techniques like Six Sigma?
Six Sigma has become synonymous with efficient quality management and our app brings forth methodology suited for Industry 4.0, aptly termed ‘Digital Six Sigma’. Making 100% inspection a reality, we can track variables such as quality deviations, malfunctions, and wear and tear, all in real time while making the data easily accessible on several dashboards – making subsequent analysis, improvement and control phases far more effective.
Downtime Tracking:
Apply "Digital Six Sigma"
Explore our success stories
From enabling faster changeover times in the packaging industry to understanding the real causes of downtime in plastics processing, this ei3 app has helped our clients vastly improve their industrial and organizational operations.
