Get the competitive edge that keeps you in touch with your factory floor.

Use FACTIVITY to touch, monitor and adapt every shop floor process for real-time improvement that delivers greater profitability. Additional modules include:

• Time and Attendance
• Finite Scheduling
• Machine Monitoring

Overview
Introducing FACTIVITY – the only system that enables manufacturers to compete on speed rather than cost and delivers real-time, continuous improvement for greater profitability and faster delivery to customers.

• Take manufacturing to new levels
• Compete on speed
• Improve factory floor efficiency
• Provide worker friendly touch screens

Take Manufacturing to New Levels
How much more could your company do if it had complete control of the factory floor? If last-minute changes never affected your efficiency? If you could adjust work-in-process and schedules at a moments notice and deliver all product on time - without hurting job profit?

Compete on Speed
Today, speed is essential. Traditional planning systems are accounting based - they measure cost, but do nothing to improve performance and increase production speed. FACTIVITY is based on the actual "activity" of the floor. It modifies and adjusts your work in progress based on actual "real world" production events. The goal is improved performance.

Improve Factory Floor Efficiency
FACTIVITY blends planning technology with new, factory floor activity technology. Employees use touchscreen computers right where they need them - on the factory floor - to enter and retrieve data. They simply touch-in current job data in a real-time environment that improves accuracy and provides a faster time to discovery of problems.

FACTIVITY can adjust the allocation of resources and make time needed to get the job done - making adjustments for changes as they occur. As orders come in, FACTIVITY aligns jobs behind machines, cells, lines and work centers in priority order. And because FACTIVITY is electronic, resources can be re-prioritized, directly on the floor, to meet new customer demands.

Worker Friendly Touch Screens
FACTIVITY is so simple, so intuitive, that employees can be trained within two hours. No other system can make this promise. Benefits include:

• Language barriers are not an issue thanks to simple, universal screen icons - an important consideration for today's tight labor market.
• Large, user-friendly graphics are easy to learn.
• Employees log into and out of activities collection production and labor data.
• Multiple employee crews or single employees running on multiple machines are supported.
• Badge readers and security passwords can improve data integrity.
• Example drawings, instructions and video clips can be viewed from employee computer screens.
• Quality documents, blueprints and notes can be retrieved and viewed as needed.

Features & Benefits

1. Discover and resolve problems faster: Reminders appear to inform of special instructions. Shift-to-shift information is contained on- screen. An easy-to-use email system distributes messages to specific areas or persons. Automatic notification of a floor problem is displayed so action can be taken immediately.
2. Alert Messages: FACTIVITY enables production control to set up alarm parameters that can alert the floor of problems, such as:
   • Lower then predicted efficiency levels
   • Higher than expected scrap levels
   • Movement outside of quality ranges
3. What If?: The FACTIVITY What If feature helps you work around unanticipated changes - reducing the need for expensive outsourcing, safety stock and premium shipping. Managers simply key-in different customer delivery scenarios and FACTIVITY automatically calculates the workflow process for each.
4. Critical daily reports: FACTIVITY delivers management reports in five categories: Machine Performance, Labor Performance, Part Analysis, Problem Analysis, and Scrap Analysis. This information, delivered on demand, provides a feedback loop so managers can make critical decisions and produce a "score card" for employees.
5. Easy integration and system compatibility: FACTIVITY works with a variety of off-the-shelf and customized software packages and can receive information electronically - including orders upstream from ERP/MRP and office systems to machine monitoring equipment delivered downstream. FACTIVITY can link with other systems such as Computer-Aided Design (CAD).
6. Tailor made to your business: Software switches inside FACTIVITY allow you to configure the product to match the way you do business.

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