Manufacturing Analytics

GET Results with Downtime Tracking and OEE Software

For effective and real-time OEE, trust Industrial Network System as we strive to make your manufacturing business a success. We have packaged solutions that can get results now and can lay down a platform for analytics solutions and data collection that are designed for your business’s unique needs. OEE software and Downtime Tracking allows you to improve performance, efficiency, and sustainability. We provide you with solutions that integrate with your existing systems that guarantee quality, reduce downtime, and improve efficiency.

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“Data is the new oil. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, or chemicals to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value."

Clive Humby, Mathematician and architect of Tesco’s Clubcard

What Is OEE Software?

Overall Equipment Effectiveness, OEE, provides a continuous improvement process that can be employed on single and multiple production lines and from one to several group-wide features. It is an effective business performance management tool that critically evaluates the effectiveness of a manufacturing operation.

To sum it up, OEE measures the gap between the actual performance and the potential performance of manufacturing.

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How The OEE Software improves Manufacturing

Many leading manufacturers use OEE software for the optimization of their production processes and the improvement of their factory floor machine availability, which helps in boosting productivity. By using the production tracking software, you can provide your business with many tangible benefits:

  • Downtime tracking and Reason tracking to improve uptime
  • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for analyzing existing processes
  • Accumulate production data to help make more informed decisions
  • Businesses have a straightforward path which helps to achieve maximum production efficiency
  • Visualize OEE data with grouped metrics for finding a way to improve production
  • Identification of problematic areas for improvement with sophisticated reports
  • Real-time alerts help in preemptively spotting upcoming issues before they happen
  • Gaining deeper insights that are utilized for measuring manufacturing productivity

INS Provides You with Real-Time Production Monitoring and Control

Through our robust OEE software, we help in highlighting production performance issues, which allows your team to respond in an adequate and precise manner. A proactive team resolves issues more effectively and promptly.

Analytics Dashboard

Through predictive analysis, INS helps you forecast future incidents and identify improvement opportunities so that you can work toward achieving growth and efficacy.

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Benefits Of OEE Software

When you have the ability to spot gaps in your operations and address them promptly, you are better able to address your manufacturing issues. An OEE Software provides:

Enhanced Productivity

Maximize the performance of your machinery to ensure all your equipment is working at full capacity at all possible times. Improve workplace productivity by the use of timely notifications of shift and line trends and by enhancing performance with targeted management practices

Boosted Quality

Identify and correct the factors that lead to rejects, rework, and non-conformances. This ensures a consistent supply of higher-quality products

Increased Throughput

Eliminate wasteful and redundant actions as well as the number of defective products

Greater Yield

Increase the volume of finished products, and maintain timely deliveries to customers by taking strategic actions based on OEE insights

Reduced Costs

Cut costs from underperformance, scrap, and limited productivity with leaner operations that improve your company’s bottom line.

OEE Software Solutions offer you insights that help to improve manufacturing outcomes in your facility. These reports and analyses serve as eye-openers, which means even when you are at peak operating capacity, there might be hidden ways for you to improve further.

INS offers a no charge walkthrough or workshop and a plant readiness evaluation that provides you with a proposal on what it would take to implement a base OEE or Downtime System and what type of results you can expect to achieve, both short and long term.

You can achieve Business Results from IIoT & Real-tIme Data

See initial payback in 3 months

Reduce your downtime in your operations by 10% to 40%

Increase Efficiency with insights into operational performance

More Predictive Maintenance when machines are monitored

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Manufacturing Analytics

All about solving manufacturing issues

  • Predefined Analytics and Model
  • Standardize Configurable Tools for Data Scientists

Connect to wide variety of sources

  • Devices: PLC/SCADA/DCS/Sensors/Edge Devices
  • Databases: Time (Historian) and Event (SQL)
  • Systems: ERP, CMMS, Quality
  • Misc

Data Transformation and Management

Apply Analytics Tools

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INS3 has an experienced team of software and engineering experts

We are available to assist you in the design, deployment, and implementation of your analytics solution.
In addition, you can leverage INS3’s experience in manufacturing systems which — combined with our extensive knowledge network of partners — drive improvements in manufacturing results and business outcomes. We have a proven process to get you there.

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Analytics Evolution

  1. Descriptive /  Diagnostic  analytics are  used to  describe  what  happened  in  the  past  and  why it  happened.  Usually, Descriptive  Analytics  gain  insight  from  historical data using reporting, scorecards, or clustering.
  2. Real-time analytics describe  what  is  currently happening (e.g., the current location of the product, details  on  the  progress  of  the  manufacturing processes, or detection of faulty parts).
  3. Predictive analytics entail  algorithms  that engage  in  forecasting  of  future  incidents  (e.g., the  possibility  of  a  defect  showing  up). Predictive analytics signals the need for an action. Often Predictive  Analytics  use  Machine Learning techniques.
  4. Prescriptive analytics provide advice on the best possible actions that  the  end-user  should  take.  In other words, it answers the “what should happen”. Prescriptive  analytics  requires  a predictive model with two additional components: actionable  data  and  a  feedback  system  that tracks the outcome produced by the action taken.

Trending Analytics for Time Series Data

  • Connect to Machines, Controllers or Sensors
  • Collect Time-Series Data at the required rate
  • Flexible Data Modeling fit to the Application
  • Recall volumes of data in seconds for rapid analysis
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Case Study | Predictive Maintenance

50% reduction in Work Orders
Sending best personnel on their schedule
Increase overall reliability


Data

  • Vibration
  • Temperature
  • Amp Draw
  • Levels and Pressures

Sources

  • Existing PLC
  • Added Sensors

Solutions

  • Integrate with existing Historian
  • Analytics to detect an issue, and likely cause
  • Interface with Maximo (CMMS)

Case Study | Quality

Double digit reduction in waste or downgrading of Roasted Peanuts

Issues

  • Peanuts spend a long time in the roaster
  • Quality checks can take some time
  • If process is setup to make bad products, you are making bad for a while before you know to adjust, and a bunch of product is already in process

Solution

  • Apply Machine Learning to large data set
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Start with the problems you are trying solve, look at the data available, determine what is needed, cleanse the data and apply AI and ML techniques.

FAQ

What are the top reasons Analytics Projects Fail / Things to avoid?

    • There are three critical steps in starting on a Industry 4.0 journey.  First is make sure you have “big data” to support the analytics you will want to do in the future.  Second is get the focus on solving issues and optimizing process that will have real business value, not on putting in a bunch of technology that somehow will magically do that for you.  Third is have the right team of operations, IT, and other departments to keep the focus, and good partners focused on results.

What is a good starting point for Industry / Manufacturing 4.0 and Analytics?

There are three critical steps in starting on an Industry 4.0 journey.  First is make sure you have “big data” to support the analytics you will want to do in the future.  Second is get the focus on solving issues and optimizing process that will have real business value, not on putting in a bunch of technology that somehow will magically do that for you.  Third is have the right team of operations, IT, and other departments to keep the focus, and good partners focused on results.

What is AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning)?

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions.  Machine learning (ML) is the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience and by the use of data.  What does that mean to manufacturers.  Using data and algorithms and computerized thinking to solve issue is the root of it.

Does Industry / Manufacturing 4.0 and Analytics need to be in the cloud?

By definition Industrial Internet of Things, typically is in the cloud.  IIoT is a part of Industry / Manufacturing 4.0, but the vast majority of successful project related to Industry / Manufacturing 4.0 are utilizing data that is not in the cloud, or at a minimum started on premise, and was duplicated in the cloud.  It is mostly about solving manufacturing issue, and optimizing processes utilizing data.  That data is not required to be in the cloud, and most is currently no in the cloud.

What is a “Digital Twin”?

A digital twin is a virtual representation that serves as the real-time digital counterpart of a physical object or process.  It is less complicated than most think, but it basically having information available in a computer that you can look at the information and get a good representation of how that machine or device function during any particular timeframe. 

Do you need to buy expensive applications or pay consultants to do Manufacturing Analytics?

Manufacturing Analytics comes in many shapes and sizes.  You can collect data for years, and then give a good data person a process to optimize and they can do it using Excel.  You can put in a good data collection system with good visualization tools to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time, empowering them to make good business decisions.  It does not have to be expensive, and it can be scalable and done in a phased approach.