AcuSYS Software Solutions (Pty) Ltd

How does TrakSYS™ help me with Root Cause Analysis?

Determining the "true" reason for production events and efficiency losses is critical to the ability to improve them. But often there are many events occurring at the same time and it is difficult to manually determine the real reason for the efficiency loss. There are many short-stop downtimes that result in major efficiency losses. How do you automatically track them without modifying your existing automation infrastructure or adding additional hardware to track this information?

TrakSYS™ provides access to information that helps you perform Root Cause Analysis, so that you can determine the true causes of your efficiency losses without overstating them. You can see the sequence of events and how personnel responded, their actions, and comments.

The detail reports show you in a Gantt chart view the simultaneous events and the supporting data, such as the product, job, batch, operator, and other values you configure to track either at the start or end of the event. As a result continuous improvement efforts can address the cause and not the symptoms.

Last week (14th Sept 09) delegates from around the world gathered to attend the annual Parsec partner summit which was held in Newport Beach California (located in the coastal centre of Orange County).  AcuSYS Software Solutions and local partners AMR Automations CC and Brumartech attended the event.

Amongst the highlights were presentations by TrakSYS users who shared their experience and benefits gained amongst these were;

• Johnson and Johnson
• John Deere
• Ste. Michelle Winery

 

The release of TrakSYS Lite with version 7 of the software will provide users a solution that competes directly with the traditional OEE and downtime solutions offered by automation vendors and more maintenance focused vendors. This well priced solution for uses that only want to focus on equipment capacity and downtime event recording will however be expandable to the full TrakSYS solution should a user wish to extend their performance monitoring to include aspects such as traceability, WIP, batch reporting, cycle time analysis and other  aspects of Real-time Production Management. Adding this functionality can be achieved directly off the existing TrakSYS Lite configuration.

 

The latest version of LEANTrak, a multi-meter for continuous improvement consultants and leaders was discussed. This tool allows non technical users to rapidly (within 4 to 5 hours) capture performance information directly from the plant floor for capacity utilisation diagnostics (OEE & Event Analysis).

The highlight of the event was the unveiling of TrakSYS 7.0 which is due for release early 2010. Some of the new features included extended dashboard charting, extended work order tracking functionality (support for the EPCIS Standard), batch recording engine, S88 and S95 support and many more technical features. TrakSYS 7.0 will upgrade existing version directly without the need for engineering.