MES-Cockpit
MES-Cockpit
Better Overview in Production with KPIs
On a plane, the best view is in the pilot‘s cockpit. It is similar with the MES-Cockpit. What the cockpit is for a pilot, KPIs are for your company. KPIs are a powerful tool to support the management level leading your company. The MES-Cockpit displays relevant KPIs individually and clearly arranged.
A precondition to using KPIs is collecting specific values. Finding out revenue or number of staff is easily done. This
kind of information can be obtained by management from the
accounting or HR department. Information from production is much harder to get. Transparency in production is the foundation needed in order to procure manufacturing KPIs. The Manufacturing Execution System (MES) HYDRA, for example, collects and manages manufacturing data which can be evaluated with MES-Cockpit. It is then possible to close the loop for production control.
Closed Loop of Production Management
Management defines targets to comply with requirements. These requirements are translated into definite measuring values and KPIs by production management or job scheduling. For example, to increase productivity in manufacturing, the system can be adjusted in various places. Set-up times per machine can be pulled up as a KPI. In order to do so, an actual value for the set-up time is collected in the manufacturing process. Data arriving from the MES are compressed and can be evaluated per machine, shift or day. Abnormalities
identified are clearly visualized in the MES-Cockpit to define possible measures.
Reliable KPIs are available for a continuous improvement process. MES-Cockpit increases transparency in the manufacturing process and assists enormously in creating and using a highly productive closed loop control circuit.
Easy Access to all Relevant Information
MES-Cockpit has a flexible web client that can be called up without
additional installations via an internet browser. Integration into existing or newly designed company platforms is thereby possible. Every user can individually design their own Cockpit depending on the required data or evaluations and store it if required again.
MES-Cockpit accesses imported data from various databases.
This combined data enables the user to generate significant KPIs.
For example, data from MES HYDRA, a warehouse management
system, an ERP system or an archived database can be combined and displayed together. Correlation of this data opens a comprehensive picture of production for the user. Therefore, a financial evaluation of scrap is possible by linking the quantities recorded and classified in HYDRA with the material data from the ERP system.
KPIs and Managing Target Values
Based on available data, formulas for standard or individual KPIs can be stored in MES-Cockpit. Time-related target values are defined to achieve set company goals. These are then available in various displays in the system in order to directly compare target / actual values. Trends can be established observing current developments of values.
A superb process quality is given if anticipated target values have been met. If that is not the case, the process has to be checked and corrected to achieve some improvements.
Added Value through Independence
MES-Cockpit can basically be differentiated from a Manufacturing
Execution System, such as HYDRA, by two features:
1. MES-Cockpit is only a tool for evaluations and reports, whereas an MES also records data and/or provides functions for production control.
2. An MES mostly only monitors one site but MES-Cockpit evaluates and integrates data of several sites and even from other systems.
Facilitating Long-Term Evaluations
MES-Cockpit enables data to be evaluated over multiple years,
even though they are no longer included in the pro - ductive MES system as they have been exported or archived.
Controlling across all Sites
MES-Cockpit can also be used as a control tool in group structures and across several sites. Thus, a central database is set up where data of several company sites come together for company-wide analyses. Depending on all the central data, KPIs are measured and visualized according to a certain set of rules. This ensures an impartial comparison of several sites in a central location. Additionally, relevant results are supplied in detail for the various sites in order to implement
required measures.
MES-Cockpit in Detail
Opening the MES-Cockpit, the user arrives at the start page where he can start the required application. MES-Cockpit offers three different fields of application tailored to the user‘s specific tasks and concept:
Shop Floor Information
The user may call up and view versatile real-time information. This includes the KPI monitor, an overview of workplaces and machines, a list of contacts and a messages listing indicating upcoming and pending maintenance activities.
Detailed status information is displayed separately for each (HYDRA) system. User authentication is mandatory.
Shop Floor Information: Workplaces / machines
Shop Floor Information: Contacts
Shop Floor Information: Messages listing for maintenance activities
Production Monitoring
Production Monitoring displays status information and KPIs across all instances:
• Workplace overview
• Operation overview
• Current KPIs: e.g. rate of capacity utilization, setup rate or scrap rate
• Downtime hit list (count and duration)
• Order overview
• Production overview
Production Monitoring: Order overview
Production Monitoring: Downtime hit list
Production Monitoring: KPIs
MES-Cockpit
Performance Analysis
The Performance Analysis provides flexible evaluations about the data derived from the connected systems (across all instances). Subject to the objective of the evaluation, the following dashboards may be used.
The overview shows information of the current shift. Predefined KPIs are displayed for the selected workstations in a tachometer graph.
In addition, the produced yield and scrap quantities are compared.
Performance Analysis: Overview with tachometer graph
KPIs and information on the following objects can be evaluated in evaluation dashboards:
• Machines and the current shift
• Orders
• Operations
The user may configure the basic KPIs and the set of rules for computation.
Performance Analysis: Workplaces including OEE
Performance Analysis: Evaluation of resource performance accounts
Performance Analysis: Scrap statistic
Exact dimensions can be selected by drill down (e.g. year, month, week, shift date and shift). Besides the calculated KPIs, defined target values may also be displayed and evaluated.
Central Management and Configuration
MES-Cockpit provides a central client to manage the KPIs, authorizations, responsibility areas and target values. Consequently, information and user rights may be specifically managed and distributed.