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Partnership provides manufacturing measuring solution

9th April 2020

By: Creamer Media Reporter

     

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Manufacturing solutions provider Vorne Industries has partnered with industrial automation solutions provider S4 Integration to present the Vorne OEE Appliance, which enables the measurement of any manufacturing variable – including overall operations effectiveness (OOE), downtime, availability, cycle and production time.

S4 Integration explains, “in simple terms”, OEE is a standard for measuring productivity, factoring in such variables machine maintenance, breakdowns, scheduled stoppages, and output quality, among others.

The company states that to quantify OEE, the following formula is used:

OEE = Quality x performance (the fastest production speed) x availability.

Therefore, Manufacturing OEE is a manufacturing best practice.

By investigating OEE, companies will gain insight into means of increasing capacity, reducing cost, improving quality and generally increasing efficiency across production lines, states S4 Integration.

Further OEE can also serve as a benchmark for production, as it can determine whether the production facility is operating at 100%, 85%, 60%, or under 40% capacity.

Moreover, OEE can also assist in addressing the reasons for a facility operating at less than optimum.

The Vorne XL Productivity Appliance is a “bolt-on” smart device that provides accurate and automated manufacturing data to operators, engineers and managers.

XL is available in four model versions, with the only difference being the scoreboard.

Every XL system includes a plant floor scoreboard, with an input/output for receiving signals from sensors or the machine controller, and the same built-in reporting which can be accessed from any device on the network.

To monitor the manufacturing process, companies need only provide one or two sensor inputs and a network connection.

The solution requires no software, nor any changes to programmable logic controller code, notes S4 Integration, concluding that there are also no recurring costs.

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