Shop Floor Control with FACTIVITY

Use FACTIVITY's shop management software for better scheduling, WIP tracking, data collection and time & attendance labor management. FACTIVITY offers a real-time data collection system with touch screen capabilities.

The MES (Manufacturing Execution System) provides you with a visual factory that is easy to see and, therefore, easy to control.

Additional modules provide improved production schedules that allow more work to complete on time without adding costly equipment or labor. Scheduling can be as simple as a drag and drop "electronic white board" or as sophisticated as user defined rules in an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) system. Time and Attendance enhances the labor management, your frontline of process improvement and facilitates the preprocessing of payroll data by factory floor supervisors.

Visibility of floor activities for shop floor control
FACTIVITY can make sense of all factory floor data being collected so you can see how effectively you're using labor time and machine resources and identify areas for making process improvements. For example, FACTIVITY provides a complete set of management Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). These metrics can be grouped into five categories:

Machine Efficiencies
Labor Time Performance
Downtime Analysis
Scrap Analysis
Part Flow Analysis

Metrics are displayed in drill down charts and graphs. This allows you to determine what percentage of time spent on the job was productive and how, when and what problems actually occurred. Additionally, it provides a feedback loop of throughput to improve the accuracy of your standards for the best scheduling possible.

Process Improvement
FACTIVITY helps you work around unanticipated changes. Decision support is provided by "seeing" each and every part and process in real time. This helps reduce the need for expensive outsourcing, safety stock and premium transportation, while improving labor efficiency and machine utilization.

Beyond data collection is improved information control.
FACTIVITY can also function as a process improvement tool, allowing you to create quality data capture "templates" in a drag-and-drop environment to record measurements and identify nonconformance conditions. Electronic document delivery permits the viewing of CAD, JPG, Video Clips, ISO 9000 and QS 9000 controlled documents at the touch of a button.

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