Improved Utilisation

The efficient use of people and production equipment is vital to manufacturing success. With Mestec’s Manufacturing Smart Box system, manufacturers have unprecedented real-time, minute-by-minute insight into non-value added activity, downtime, and resource utilisation.

The result? Wastes and inefficiencies can be tracked to their root causes ... and eliminated. Powerfully, productively, and permanently. As a result, it’s possible to achieve real increases in capacity ... by unlocking the ‘hidden factory’ that is disguised by waste, losses, inefficiencies and under-utilisation.

With the Mestec Manufacturing Smart Box ... a touch-screen and barcode based system that captures real-time factory floor data ... you can call-up on-screen reports on an extensive array of efficiency-related metrics, and drill down to investigate problems.

Plug-compatible with ERP systems and Windows networks, the Mestec Manufacturing Smart Box system delivers reports, metrics and drill-down insights direct to your office, on your own desktop computer. See what’s happening on the factory floor ... right now ... from the comfort of your desk.

  • Downtime vs. Uptime
  • Labour Effectiveness
  • Non value-added activity
  • Machine utilisation
  • Actual hours vs. Standard hours
  • Planned vs. Actual setup times
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness
    (OEE)
  • Productive hours vs. unproductive
    hours

Better still, Mestec’s rapid low-cost deployment approach means that resource utilisation can be boosted in days or weeks ... not months. Read about Mestec’s ‘stepwise’ rapid deployment here.


Improved Utilization

“The identification of non-productive work and unproductive time is very important to us, and now, we know exactly where we’re losing time ... and can tell if the root cause is supplier failure, or issues within our own manufacturing organisation, such as engineering changes.”

Paul Arnold, operations director, Thales Training & Simulation

Click here to read how Mestec’s Manufacturing Smart Box system is boosting labour utilisation at Thales Training & Simulation ... and helping to deliver a 25% cut in the labour hours required to build each simulator.