Target group:

• companies with cost intensive machines (f.e. machine tools, injection molding machines)
• companies with older or network compatible machines
• for those customers who work with milling machines from Röders please click here

Challenge:

• high machine hour rates = high costs
• the need of automatization and time extension (man-less operation)
• full use of bottleneck machines (Goldratt: "An hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour lost for the entire system.")
• identify and minimize nonproductive times (ready, disruption...)

Solution:

4MDE to get machine data automatically: you can adapt it intuitive and individual to your requirement

• running times (f.e. prepare the machine, automatic mode)
• availability and reliability
• machine status (f.e. with the machine traffic light or SPS/PLC)
• output, cycle numbers, strokes etc.
• feed rate
• energy consumption

Application area:

• companies which have a small series and individual production with cost intensive production resources and bottleneck machines
• you can also control resources from companies with large series (f.e. injection molding machines)

Benefits:

• real time information ↑
• post calculation ↑
• transparency ↑
• utilization↑
• wastes ↓
• unproductive times ↓