Downtime: Planned or Unplanned

Utilization is a great metric to use to understand your factory's capacity, but that number can get a little complicated when you start using it to judge your factory's overall performance. When you're setting goals for your operators, you'll realize that some days, 50% utilization is actually good—and on other days, 50% utilization is bad. The context of whether that utilization number is good or bad, usually stems from variable demand on your machines—and that's not something you want to hold your production team accountable for!

You want to ask the question: "When my machines are scheduled to run, how well are they running?" The key word being scheduled.

Our features allow you to normalize data with:

• Dynamic Scheduling: Indicate whether a machine is scheduled to run a certain day or shift.
• Mass Downtime Labeling: Mass label downtime for an entire day. For example, if there was a company holiday or a scheduled plant shutdown.
• Remove Select Downtime Reasons: Remove Break/Lunch or other downtime reason codes like Setup, from your overall available production time.
• Set Utilization Targets: Establish utilization goals regardless of your variable production time. For example, you can set 80% as a utilization goal that means, when you are scheduled to run, you want to run at 80%. Our software can now take out any planned downtime from the utilization equation.