Overall Equipment Effectiveness for batch and process operations

 Every process operations manager, engineer and executive is or should be asking regularly:

• What is the overall effectiveness of our processes right now?
• How can we consistently improve that effectiveness?

No doubt your current objectives include making your processes more available, maintaining or improving quality and increasing, or being ready to increase, throughput. Typical goals include reducing waste, rejects and returns while identifying and eliminating bottlenecks and equipment availability issues.

A one percent improvement that can give back 100 percent or more

Setting goals is easier than implementing solutions that work. Traditionally, process managers have focused their attention mostly on availability. Even where performance and rate are considered, today only a tiny fraction of process operations consistently perform and credibly report real-time overall effectiveness.

Why? Not because overall effectiveness is unimportant in process operations, but because challenges to implementation have traditionally been perceived to be significant:

• The lack of an independent and generally accepted overall effectiveness standard for non-discrete operations
• The time and resources needed to learn, modify and apply discrete tools like Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Determining which variables to measure
• Knowing how to capture activity for pumps and other process equipment

In many cases, an increase of one percent or less in availability, performance or quality can provide significant gains in short- and long-term profitability. Fortunately, the challenges to implementing overall equipment effectiveness in process operations are surmountable. Which means you now can bring these gains to your operations with OEE and RoviSys Jump-Start.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness for process operations

As one of the leading independent process automation solutions and implementation providers in North America, RoviSys has a tradition of successfully implementing new ideas and concepts in process operations. The company’s engineers were among the first to deploy programmable logic controllers in process operations in the early nineties.

Today, RoviSys engineers and information integrators are successfully applying discrete OEE concepts to process operations. RoviSys OEE enables you to identify, quantify and routinely monitor the impact of and cost to your operations of the six big losses:

• Equipment failures and downtime
• Product changeovers
• Process and batch holds
• Process deviations
• Reduced yield
• Rework and adjustments

Deep experience and resources enhance performance measurement

As one the largest independent process automation solutions and controls integrators in North America, RoviSys provides the real-time performance measurement expertise and services you need.

We can help you determine whether OEE can benefit your operations, evaluate the best platform for your situation and strategize, implement and integrate a practical and useful solution using the technology you prefer.

For more information, contact Joe Maukonen, director of MES strategy and implementation, at 330-995-8176 or joe_maukonen@rovisys.com.

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