A step-by-step guide for implementing digital operational excellence using Factbird. This guide will take you through our 6 steps to help you reach the full potential of your equipment and drive your operational excellence.

Level 1 - Track Flow

Connect one sensor to the bottleneck of the manufacturing line to count and time-stamp the flow of products. After connecting the sensor we can see the live data in Factbird and it looks like this:

From that single data point we can extract a lot of information.

• When did we start and finish
• How much have we produced
• How much value adding time (The theoretical time the line would have run to produce the good products in the selected time period)
• How many stops and how much down time
• Average stop duration
• Longest non-stop duration
• Product cycle time (speed)

Many of these KPIs can be viewed directly under the live graph

Next is to start analyzing how these KPIs develop over time. Click on any of the KPIs to navigate to the trend analysis and start understanding in which direction the KPI is trending.

Level 2 - Track Stop Reasons

This level is about understanding the reasons why the equipment is not performing as expected. When the line stop, we will track the stop time and ask the operator the reason for the stop - or if possible, get the stop cause directly from the machine PLC. Stop causes are categorized into the four main OEE categories.

The data you can get from tracking reasons for stops are