Data Presentation: A Force of Functionality
Of course, addressing the individual needs of varying roles within your organization
is also a key function of The Manufacturing Suite. By creating roles, you are effectively grouping people
by their commonality (typically related to job tasks). This is an essential benefit
of the suite because it eliminates information overload by sending the right data to the
right people in a way that makes sense to their respective roles. In your day-to-day
functions, what reports are most important to you?
Shop Floor: Color-coded data displays enable quick
detection of issues with supporting graphics and statistical charts to see through
the noise and clearly assess what the process is doing.
Middle Management: Summaries are provided over hours
and shifts for Foremen and Supervisors to easily and accurately observe operations
and detect variances.
Upper Management: Process Engineers can review statistical
reports and presentations to confidently make decisions on whether a product is
fit to ship while gaining deeper understanding of the process over the longer term.
Variance analysis can also be identified, understood and reduced.
Top Floor: Equips Executive Management with greater
understanding of variability and its impact on capital investments, which ultimately
drives decisions that yield the greatest return.
Stop Information Overload
Problem
Do you suffer from inefficiencies, spending more time filtering
through mounds of data instead of receiving the right data at the right time?
Solution
Just as an Operator isn’t concerned with long-term projections, an Executive Manager
doesn’t need to know every time a machine sounds the alarm; however, the data that
is presented to each, will ultimately affect them all. The suite capably meets this need
by delivering the right information at the right time to the right people for optimum
effectiveness.
Control Information Access
Problem
You want to make information more available to everyone but
you also want to keep certain findings restricted to a select few, is that possible?
Solution
With the suite, you can enable or restrict certain actions within each role. For example,
you may want someone to see but not edit content or add to but not delete giving
you ultimate control.
Always focused on creating solutions that offer the utmost ease of use, the suite also
allows you to inherit user rights for quick set up. For instance, though each individual
Operator would have his/her individual login, you would still apply the same abilities
and/or restrictions to all who fall in that role. In the same way, if you have one
Operator who needs additional access above the others, you can select that one specific
user for special rights.
The Log-Sheet Network Advantage
The main interface in a typical manufacturing environment is the suite's log sheet.
Data in this real-time display is either event driven or time driven and The Suite acquires
that data from your process’ varying instruments and systems. The software then
organizes the data according to the appropriate event or time so it can be accurately
presented for comparison and review. It is important to note, however, that the suite
can mix both time-driven and event-driven data together; they do not have to be
kept exclusive. Can your current system do that? Or more importantly, what other
advancements can The QiSOFT Manufacturing Suite provide over your current methods for the benefit of your enterprise?
Instant Information Updates
Problem
Are you often making decisions in the dark because certain
reports are only available to certain levels?
Solution
Because The Suite operates as a network, as soon as a value is available from anywhere,
it can also be seen from anywhere by those with access to the log sheets. To further
simplify reading the results, each log-sheet screen is paginated allowing you to
create templates for certain search requirements to control what is on the screen
at any given time.
Accurate, Real-Time Recordings
Problem
Handwritten logbooks maintained by the operators have typically
sufficed for you, or have they?
Solution
Even data that an operator observes rather than measures with a yes/no/good/bad/indifferent
rating can be recorded for analysis. An additional advantage of this computer-based
system over a paper-based one is that any changes recorded in the standards are
always immediately available. Unlike paper records, the electronic nature of the software
eliminates errors making it impossible to see an incorrect or older version.
The end result is the ideal log sheet that is fully networked, always up-to-date
and automatically refreshes itself thanks to The Manufacturing Suite.
Easy-to-Read Reports
Problem
Is your shop floor able to easily read essential reports to
make critical adjustments that prevent waste and rework?
Solution
The log sheet can be compared to a color-coded spreadsheet that uses simple
red, yellow and green traffic light color-coding to indicate compliance or lack
thereof accordingly. The software caters to multiple samples and group sizes allowing decision
making to be conducted based on the collected average with rows representing events
for a certain process. Comparisons to set standards are then made and color-coded
to clearly illustrate the results and note any subsequent action.
To be fully effective, the suite must have access to all safe standards for every parameter
including ideal targets, normal limits, control limits, reject, no-go and so on.
Knowing this alerts all involved when a decision must be made on the acceptability
of a specific product due to its variance from the ideal.
Unprecedented Insight
Problem
Do your current reports indicate how to correct a problem
or only indicate there is one?
Solution
Analyzing numbers alone rarely tells the tale. While a variance may be detected,
its magnitude would remain unknown. Take basic numbers a step further, however,
and put them in a simple scale and you are able to better assess the results. Go
even further and insert a target line within that scale to indicate results that
are above or below desired standards and your understanding reaches an entirely
new level.
The QiSOFT Manufacturing Suite goes even further still and connects the dots of those values that are outside
of normal range and, through running averages and statistical graphic representations,
allows you to choose any number of available views to extract the absolute most
out of the data that is being delivered to you by the application modules.