Increased Throughput Calls for New Productivity Tools
Which kind of productivity tool or platform is needed as companies take on continuous improvement projects, smart manufacturing upgrades or pilot programs?
A large brewer with advanced plant floor technology lost $50 million in one year due to unplanned downtime, according to Brad Moore, lead principal of reliability at Pinnacle. The financial pain is real for food manufacturers as increased volume puts pressure on operations to find strategies to understand inefficiencies within production data better.
Not surprisingly, companies are ramping up continuous improvement initiatives, including overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), throughput, capacity utilization, key performance indicators (KPI), unscheduled downtime, overall operator effectiveness, and many other metrics. Food brands are evaluating new data productivity tools to achieve efficiencies—and many choices exist.