Citect, one of the world's largest independent automation software providers is offering its CitectIIM Performance. Performance is believed to be the first manufacturing execution system (MES) to provide powerful analytics capabilities that enable companies to increase profits by proactively targeting performance improvements in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
CitectIIM Performance lowers total cost of ownership by combining technology, services and process improvement expertise accumulated from working with world-class customers such as Impala, Console Energy and BHP Billiton. The end result is a powerful, out-of-the-box solution that is easy to configure, intuitive to use and provides fast ROI in areas such as increased uptime, production and total capacity gains.
Technology-savvy customers in the mining, food and beverage, energy, automotive and infrastructure industries are amongst the first movers to realise the significant ROI from using this solution. Western Mining Corporation Resources reported return within days, achieving 24% performance improvement in its underground railway haulage as part of its mine reliability program. At Impala's Base Metal Refinery in South Africa, savings in reduced downtime were made, an hour of which is equivalent to a million rand.
"CitectIIM gives management a clear picture on production performance throughout the plant, by aggregating data from various systems and presenting an analysed, easy-to-understand snapshot," said Tim Spandiel, plant manager, Impala Platinum Holdings.
"What makes CitectIIM Performance unique is its powerful cause-based analysis," explains Peter Long, general manager, CitectIIM. "This is due to the depth of detailed information captured. For example, Performance automatically captures qualitative data entered by engineers at the time of event occurrence such as a downtime, equipment failure or out-of-spec quality issue. By aggregating and presenting such information in realtime throughout the plant or enterprise, Performance eliminates the guesswork, providing managers with direction to confidently target and improve areas which will yield the greatest returns."
Sales and marketing manager for CitectIIM, Jeremy Bolton, expects to see continuous growth for the company's IIM suite of products, which are part of a rapid growing next generation MES market which industry analysts, ARC Advisory Group, call the 'collaborative production management (CPM) software and services market'; "ARC predict that the market will be worth approximately $3 billion by 2008, according to their two recent CPM studies."
Craig Resnick, ARC Advisory Group research director, adds, "OEE is a straight-forward approach to monitoring and managing the lifecycle of manufacturing assets. OEE is a useful, but still underused metric based on the multiplication of a plant's production rate, yield, and utilisation. This metric should be adopted by manufacturers as part of their KPIs and realtime performance management, (RPM) initiatives."
"Citect is committed to delivering high ROI and easy-to-use solutions to its customers world-wide. Customers can expect the CitectIIM platform to continue to improve throughout 2005," says Bolton.
CitectIIM features
1. Powerful analytics - IIM does cause-based analysis better than any competitor product by capturing detailed qualitative information from engineers at time of event occurrence.
2. Customers do not need to change their existing performance measures - IIM moulds to the customer's processes.
3. Enterprise wide solutions - customers are using on secondary sites for benchmarking and total capacity gains.
4. Scalable from smallest to largest plants.
5. Ease of use - improved clarity of data and more space for analysis results.
6. Performance of data presentation allows for even more comprehensive visualisation of the key performance indicators that drive a plant's bottom line.
7. Uses Microsoft's latest technologies - runs on Windows 2003 as well as Windows 2000 and includes integrated Windows security so the user need only log on once.
8. Supports multiple languages.
9. Non-invasive, modular approach delivers incremental performance improvements and ROI by delivering only what is needed when it is needed.
10. Improved reporting and overall performance.
Sites with further information:
www.feedforward.com.au/Overall_ Equipment_Effectiveness_OEE.htm
For more information contact Niconette du Toit, Citect, 011 699 6600, [email protected], www.citect.com
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