Responding to daily challenges with Machine Monitoring

I need to improve response times to machine breakdowns

Instantly see the resource status change on the system’s Live Status views
Time in status thresholds can be used to automatically generate user notifications to improve response times
Capture how long a resource is in an alarm state before being attended by maintenance to set improvement targets
Use historical analysis and machine comparisons to see trends so you can take proactive, preventative steps
Where the data is available from the machine, we can collect non-critical alarm codes that aren’t currently stopping your machine from running but may provide an early indication of an emerging issue.

Automatic monitoring captures running and alarm conditions in real time
As soon as data is captured it is instantly available for utilisation performance analysis. As we don’t license by user, you can give this real-time information to everyone that needs it. You don’t have to keep printing and emailing reports.
User prompts encourage users to enter downtime causes at point of event and notifications remind them to resolve Unknown Stoppages which encourages everyone to enter information at point of event
Operators have the same view of resource utilisation data to improve data accuracy and shopfloor buy-in

Machine Monitoring can give you visibility of your utilisation performance down to the individual resource and macro-status events
It helps you identify and start focusing on the ‘quick wins’ where you are clearly losing productivity
The configurable status matrix allows you to collect data on specific events so you can test improvement strategies or confirm/disprove theories. It also means that, with operator input into the definition, you can define states for selection that relate to what’s really happening on the shopfloor

Use the Utilisation data you capture through Seiki AIR Monitoring to adjust the efficiency factor of your resources in your planning system. This will improve the accuracy of its capacity definition

We have many tried and tested methods of connecting to different machines and resources
Being able to connect via hardware, Ethernet, Machine Protocols, MTConnect, OPC UA or Sensor means that you’ll be able to “see” more of your machine shop – including legacy equipment
The live nature of the software drives improved manual data entry accuracy, consistency and timeliness on the shopfloor. So even if your machine isn’t connected for Automatic monitoring it contributes effectively to your utilisation analysis