It is not unusual for industries to pursue production consistency. Many have put data analytics in place to create remote eyes and ears to allow for decision making on production adjustments leading to efficiency gains. The ability to make real-time production adjustments increase quality and saves thousands of dollars each year due to waste or scrape due to start up.
“Implementing process optimization and control shows that the return on investment on the software cost is at least six times, more likely nine times or more, per year. In short, companies can save millions of dollars in just a few months with the software.”
Sartorius https://blog.umetrics.com/cost-savings-for-pulp-and-paper-companies-with-multivariate-data-analysis
The pulp and paper industry like other industries operates in a high production environment. Equipment stress is high and waste due to moisture content can greatly affect the product yield. To increase production companies may look to capital invests to boost output. Beyond the capital investments, comes additional costs, time to implement, and potential regulatory permitting. Let alone additional personnel and training.
So, what are the alternatives to capital investments?
One alternative is to implement process optimization and control using software and dashboarding.
“The return on investment on the software cost is at least six times, more likely nine times or more, per year. In short, companies can save millions of dollars in just a few months with the software.”
Sartorius https://blog.umetrics.com/cost-savings-for-pulp-and-paper-companies-with-multivariate-data-analysis
An effective software & dashboarding solution will allow Quality Managers and Control Room Operators to make real-time decisions on production. This ability to change the variables early in the production cycle means that software implementation will have a fast ROI. In addition, yield quality increase and customer satisfaction follow closely behind.
“Manufacturing analysts should be thinking strategically, but they often want to know “how am I doing right now?” Dashboards can answer such questions by increasing analytical activity with the plant floor, improving the user experience, and facilitating better day-to-day decision-making.
Aberdeen Group research reveals that 47% of organizations believe they need to become more data-driven to remain competitive. However, becoming more data-driven shouldn’t mean engaging more data, but rather engaging the right data. At the operational level, many organizations claim they want to become more data-driven but are analyzing data on a monthly or quarterly cadence, when they should be engaging data daily or even more frequently. Operational or tactical dashboards enable users to display key metrics they need to proactively manage and react on a daily basis.”
Real-Time Operational Dashboards Foster Manufacturing Excellence
Greg Cline https://www.aberdeen.com/author/gregcline/
- Who is Dashboard for?
The first thing to know about dashboarding is that it’s aimed at many levels of the production process. Quality executives can see detailed production information that is vital for customer satisfaction and increased yield. Business executives can leverage the data for forecasting and capacity planning. Plant and production managers use real-time information to monitor efficiency in the production process and be alerted to any problems, and operators use these dashboards for real-time feedback to allow for on the spot decisions, problem resolution and process improvements.
- What are the Uses with Data and Dashboarding?
Here are four ways leading manufacturers are revolutionizing their industry with data:
- Improving Production, Plant Performance and Product with Self-Service Analytics
- Enhancing Sales and Operations Planning with Data blending and Forecasting
- Mobilizing Supply Chain with Real-time Analytics
- Listening, Interpreting and Reacting to Customer Feedback Faster
https://www.tableau.com/learn/whitepapers/modern-manufacturing-4-ways-data-transforming-industry
- Four Features of Quality Dashboarding
- Ability to View Data from any Source
Build dashboards with data from multiple physical sites or from various processes in a single display. Data from traditionally isolated data silos, such as lab quality data, or ERP inventory data, can be pulled in and presented side-by-side for analysis in a single display
- Settable Targets & Limits
With data, context is critical. KPI values, targets and set limits, viewed in the correct context based on actual process tags ensures with meaningful data.
- Drill-Down Data Analysis
Ability to dive deeper into your plant’s current and historical data. A year’s worth of historical data should be available.
- Ability to View Data from any Source
d. Flexible Configuration
Easily configured or modified dashboards by the decision makers allows customization without costly new software development.
Where you might get stuck: It takes some effort to increase your facilities quality. The aim is an active thought process to improve. Most folks don’t even realize they’re doing personal comparing. It’s in the subconsciousness.
At Cayonyx, our software solutions are designed to give you more than a few quick tips – We can show you what you need to do to enhance performance and breakthrough production efficiency plateaus.
- Are you a paper manufacturing leader that struggles with poor quality and waste?
- Do you want to tear down the operational silos that saddle your business and build an environment of highly productive work force with efficiency in mind?
- Is Customer satisfaction numbers not where you want it to be?
If so, we are here to help you. Would you like to chat about how we can help you and your business achieve extraordinary heights?
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