Connect your operators to keep your machines running at highest efficiency levels

Ensuring that any machine failure is detected and immediately send to your service technicians is a very effective way to increase your OEE. Each  alert sent your staff reduces machine downtime effectively. Your workers get equipped with digital devices such as Smartwatches or Smartphones and you will start saving precious time from day one. Only by sending alerts to your service technicians, you can expect to decrease your machine downtime anywhere from 5%-40% (based on previous results from our customers).

In many service scenarios, operators are only dealing with a limited set of machines every day. If the lines in their area of responsibility are operating without disruptions, the operator’s time can be dedicated to other tasks. Depending on their skill level, they can jump in to help service other lines or fulfil recurring tasks such as refilling material or conducting inspection runs. By strategically developing the skill set of your staff, you ensure that you always have enough capacity to handle any kind of disruption in time, even if your primary people are not available.

Machine disruptions can be predicted in a multitude of ways. WORKERBASE can enhance your prediction quality by adding data from human operations. Tracking the time and nature of repair on top of the basic failure data greatly increases the accuracy of your predictions. By monitoring critical machine parameters combined with human generated data, you can alert your service staff before disruptions occur and prevent machine failure.

In many manufacturing operations today, tribal knowledge is still the foundation of efficient day to day operations. If this know-how is not captured in a structured way, you are introducing significant risks onto your production abilities. The global pandemic has shown that large groups of your workforce may become unavailable from one day to the next with your essential know-how being contained in a few critical individuals. WORKERBASE allows to easily capture the tribal know-how with editing tools for frontline workers. Recording a video, annotating it and making it available in a central knowledge base is functionality that is available out of the box with all systems. Once you have captured your valuable know-how, you can construct training schedules for your employees to gradually increase the skill level of your frontline operators.