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Innovative companies select the FACTIVITY product over a myriad of good competitors because of its unique, innovative and visual approach to factory floor communications, data collection and control.

FACTIVITY Gets A Grip on Eaton General Products Division

CLEVELAND, OH – FACTIVITY, the Cleveland-based provider of package software for manufacturing environments, will install a factory floor program for Eaton’s General Products Division, based in North Carolina, makers of 75 percent of the world’s golf grips under the Golf Pride and many other well-known brand names. FACTIVITY will also provide the factory floor software for Eaton’s Airflex plant, Cleveland, which manufacturers turning and braking systems for large-diameter shafts such as those found on oil rigs and mixing equipment.

FACTIVITY is helping the company move forward with is ‘lean manufacturing’ plan by installing touch-screen computers to monitor the minute-by-minute operations on its factory floor, easily collecting labor and production data in a "visual" system that automatically alerts management to problems when they arise in the dynamic atmosphere of a factory floor.

Called FACTIVITY, the proprietary software is an extension of Eaton’s QAD/ERP system – tying planning systems directly to activity on the factory floor for continuous process improvement. Factivity is a new generation of factory floor systems that go beyond classic data collection to offer complete visibility of factory floor activities. A time and attendance module will also be installed. This module electronically collects and automatically adjusts employee’s clock-in and clock-out times. Because the information is contained onsite with touch-screen computers, information is available "real-time" to supervisors at their stations.

A benefit of the time and attendance module is ease in handling and enables daily editing and then providing drill down data viewing of employee data to process the an entire pay period.