The Advantages of Activplant

Only Activplant has the lowest total cost of ownership, scalability and application consolidation capabilities to deliver true real-time operational visibility to plant staff, managers and corporate decision makers with a measurable ROI of three to six months.

Operational Visibility

True cost-effective, real-time operational visibility for an entire plant or series of plants has been almost impossible until now. Activplant delivers and does so with a measurable return on your investment more quickly than you ever imagined.

Activplant achieves this ROI by enabling:

• Reduced overtime and labor
• Enhanced scheduling and optimization
• Reductions in scrap
• Reduced machine downtime through better predictive and preventive maintenance
• Increased product quality
• Finding and removing hidden or misunderstood constraints in the system
• Improved machine utilization
• Effective cost accounting
• Providing real-time data for your ERP, APS and CMMS investments

Activplant's ability to gather equipment, product and process data directly from the entire plant floor - even multiple plant floors - is simply the first step. Its analytical capabilities transform the available data into actionable and configurable views, reports and user-defined key performance indicators (KPIs) all in a web browser. The web-based interface makes the information available to managers and decision-makers across the operation in a way that is meaningful to each individual, and brings considerable strategic advantage to your entire operation. You can look at KPIs such as JPH, scrap, machine utilization, line performance, quality and OEE from different perspectives such as shift, operator, die and batch. Then, drill down further to identify the root cause of any issue. The result? You can manage proactively rather than reactively.

What's more, your business systems now have accurate data to schedule the plant properly, generate effective, predictive maintenance programs and manage supply chain integration.

Activplant's real-time operational visibility also enables:

• Powerful reporting and analysis that enables ongoing, lasting changes to increase plant throughput
• Graphical KPIs that enable you, at a glance, to know where you need to focus your attention
• Layout, trend, detail and production views that deliver powerful reporting and analysis capabilities such as trend data, production details, graphs and plant floor layouts
• Standardized calculations without having to resort to a programming language
• Get intelligent discovery with manufacturing alerts. Define global alerts generated from both simple and complex triggers based on timing, events and thresholds you set. Alarms arrive by e-mail to keep users instantly informed and able to react quickly and effectively
• Personalized reports, analyses and KPIs with an easy-to-use drag and drop interface
• Manual entry of data like preset scrap codes and machine failure reason through a machine operator mode
• Report export into Microsoft Excel for further analysis