Rockwell Automation Discrete Machine Performance Solution - Manual (Page 7)

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Welcome to the Discrete Machine
Performance Solution
Chapter objectives
This chapter provides an overview of the Discrete Machine Performance Solution, the
intended audience for this document, and sources of assistance for this product.
What is the Discrete Machine Performance Solution?
Companies in the discrete and repetitive manufacturing industries are being challenged by
management to maximize production from existing lines, to meet required cycle-times
and delivery dates for each product, and to reduce costs. To meet this challenge,
production management is striving to operate the equipment at its highest efficiency.
Real-time identification of production assets that are not performing to a standard is
critical to maintaining world-class efficiency. A thorough understanding of the details
behind production performance will allow you to identify sources of production
inefficiencies and to maximize asset utilization.
Historically, many custom solutions have been developed but have often failed to fulfill
expectations, essentially due to problems of long development times, high costs, and lack
of configurability.
The Discrete Machine Performance Solution (Discrete MPS) is a pre-developed system,
created to provide visualization and analysis of production asset performance based on
data acquired from a production control system. The Discrete MPS provides an industrial
computer with a standard operator interface application, and the ability to use a remote
web browser to access standard reports. The Discrete MPS is built using other successful
Rockwell Automation components, and is designed to be configured quickly to match the
production configuration or to be re-configured should the production configuration
change.
Features and benefits
Discrete MPS offers the following features and benefits:
„ Calculates the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for a workcell to evaluate its
performance.
„ Process Event and Process Variable tracking.
„ Downtime duration and reason code tracking.
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