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Equipment Effectiveness Tracking Solution

  • Determine machine utilization
  • Determine process tool throughput
  • Increase yield without increasing capacity
  • Provides details on the operating conditions of tools to determine the overall operating time of tools and the throughput associated with the tool
  • Provides the ability to determine the actual output of a process tool over time to determine the expected throughput under normal operating conditions
  • Provides details on the difference between reality and the ideal to help identify the sum of the losses and, consequently, provide focused areas where there is 'room for improvement

Overview
If all machines were perfectly balanced in terms of production rates and capacities, calculation of line OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) would be simple. But perfectly balanced production lines are rare and do not represent the real picture in most plants. Most manufacturing plants do not contain a straight line process with a part traveling from one machine to the next in perfect harmony with all other machines. Processes are usually complicated, with machines in series and parallel, and they usually include side processes.

Solution

The KeyTone solution collects WIP data at all stations both at the beginning of a work process and at the completion of the work process. In addition to the WIP data collected at every station, the solution also captures the equipment state. This real time WIP data capture combined with the equipment state provides the ability to accurately monitor equipment utilization and productivity 

  • Identify the overall equipment effectiveness of all processes and tools within the factory to improve yield 
  • Identify individual tool MTBF and MTBA specifications to determine optimization that will increase process tool throughput while reducing program management 
  • Identify lean periods within the manufacturing cycle to better optimize production scheduling to increase OEE

Reports
KeyTone provides operational business intelligence through web based dashboard and more than 30 pre-defined reports. 

  • Real-time Equipment Status 
  • Equipment Utilization 
  • Equipment Reliability 
  • Equipment Availability 
  • Equipment throughput 
  • Equipment MTBF 
  • Equipment MTBA
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