Together with SCA Graphic Sundsvall AB and a customer reference group from the asset intensive industries, IFS has developed the Maximum Overall Equipment Effectiveness (MaxOEE) solution, a real-time solution for strategic control and analysis of production output. MaxOEE was introduced at the recent IFS World Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden last month.
Our industry needed a real-time solution that improved user productivity, and, as a result, had a positive impact on a company`s bottom line," commented Christer Bystr"om, system owner at SCA Graphics. "We worked closely with IFS to develop this solution with the goal of significantly reducing our production down time. We believe MaxOEE`s extremely flexible user interface is key to improved user productivity for asset-intensive organisations such as ours."
Paul Whalley, MD of IFS South Africa, said: "In addition to partnering with SCA Graphics and the Asset Intensive Industry Advisory Group, development of the MaxOEE application and its unique user interface was done in close cooperation with a variety of IFS customer user groups to ensure an optimised, effective user experience. Based on our service-oriented component architecture (SOCA), this new application, which is "vertical by design", provides companies with rapid ROI as well as new opportunities to increase their bottom line."
By utilising a seamless capture of real-time production data to build a knowledge database, MaxOEE provides companies with the real-time knowledge they require to drive informed decisions regarding plant investments, strategic workforce management and enterprise asset management.
Drawing on the latest human computer interaction (HCI) research, the MaxOEE application uses a combination of innovative visualisation techniques and modern technology to deliver outstanding user productivity. Visualisation technologies such as time-lines and tree maps provide powerful overview of vast amounts of information, allowing users to discover patterns and gain in-depth insight from what would otherwise be lists of hundreds of thousands of records. MaxOEE uses the latest Web-deployed smart client technology to deliver the application over the Web in a secure, zero-install manner.
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