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ous improvement culture. By training an organization to utilize the data, each person or team in production is empowered with a set of tools and visual data. The real-time production performance data can be made to support all roles on the production floor, allowing them to optimize processes and thus continuously improving productivity. For example, a plant manager needs access to OEE reporting, maintenance needs access to pareto analysis of faults, and industrial engineers need reporting for planned versus actual performance. Each role also needs to access reporting on a different hierarchical level—some for the machine, others for a group or cell, for a division or a department, and for the VP of operations, who needs access on a plant level or location. ME: Can leveraging OEE and other key data metrics help users dramatically improve machining productivity? Abuali: OEE is the metric for improving machine productivity. OEE comprises of three elements—utilization, performance, and quality of machines. Each element can be improved individu-
ally to collectively increase the OEE. Utilization or availability is a metric to that represents machine up-time versus the avail- able time. Performance is a metric that represents the speed at which a machine runs at its planned or designed speed. Quality is a metric that represents the good units produced versus the total number of planned units to be produced. Forcam’s ‘Lead by TRUE OEE’ initiative uses the OEE metric as a productivity KPI [key performance indicator] to assist manufacturers to use objectively-measured data from the shop floor to calculate a real-time OEE metric, through direct connectivity to the shop floor machines and connectivity to the top floor (through ERP systems such as SAP, JD Edwards, BaaN, Oracle, QAD). Only with objec- tively-measured data can you compute an accurate true global OEE number for performance measurement and optimization. ME: How are cloud-based systems affecting factory-floor data management? Abuali: Cloud-based systems affect multi-site/global com- panies by providing them with an instance-based solution to
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