Features: BI/OEE Dashboards

Release Date: October 2022

New Feature: Dashboards

We have released the new OEE Dashboards! As part of this change, you will see all Amper BI tools appear under a new section called “Dashboards” in your Amper app. These new dashboards and reports now provide increased data analytics with OEE and Daily Production, and can be scheduled for automatic scheduled delivery in various formats.

How to Use the New Reports

Where Can You Find Them?

On your Amper app, navigate to the far left panel and click on Dashboards.

There are now new links to the OEE Reports in the top bar of the Dashboards page. In addition to some familiar tabs, the new reports will be as follows: Daily Utz + Downtime, OEE Summary, Operator Performance, Part Performance, Production Summary, and Late Starts Early Stops.

Filter and Refresh

All of these reports will have a filter section across the top. Just change the filters and make sure to press the blue refresh button.

“Drill in” and “Cross Filtering”

Some reports have interactive right click/left click options!

For example, here we clicked the Utilization Hour bar chart for Cylindrical 06 Machine. We are able to select “Drill into” date, shift, part, operator, job number, or cell. When a choice is selected, a new window will pop-out to show drilled-in data as selected.

Left clicking into a chart or graph will filter the entire page of a report for that dimension. If you left click on machine, the entire report will filter for that machine.

Schedule Your Own Delivery

Some reports are designed for daily, weekly, and/or monthly delivery. To do this, filter the report as needed, click the 3 dots at the top right of the page, and select “Schedule Delivery”.

Choose your delivery settings (recurrence, time, email..etc.) and click “Save”.

Calculations

Availability - The ratio of uptime to total available time - also known as Utilization. Every report will have a filter option for “Utilization Calculation Type”. If you choose “Capacity”, this calculation will include ALL available shift time. If you choose “Performance”, this calculation will exclude Planned Downtime.

Performance - The ratio of run rates. In OEE calculations, we “cap” performance at 100% so as to not skew the OEE number.

Uncapped Performance - There are times when you want to look at “uncapped” performance to adjust target run rates. This calculation is part of the Part Performance Report.

Weighted Target Cycle Time - Calculating a Target Cycle Time (CT) for an individual job is simple - the Target CT is just entered into the system. To calculate cycle time across different dimensions (machine, days, weeks…etc.), we need to weigh the values appropriately to provide an accurate goal. For example, if you ran a job for 8 out of 10 hours with a Target CT at 180 sec/pc and then the last 2 hours were ran at 30 sec/pc, we account for that.

Actual Cycle Time - Actual run rate.

Quality - The ratio of good parts to total parts.

OEE - Overall Equipment Effectiveness. Accounting for all factors.

Report 1 - Daily Utilization/Downtime Report

The purpose of this dashboard is to provide a daily view of each machine’s utilization and downtime, while keeping long term goals in mind. The left side of the report is automatically filtered for “yesterday” and the right side of the report is filtered for “quarter to date” information.

You can change the timeline of these filters using the “More” section in the filter area above.

Amper Recommends…

• Set up your filters and schedule a daily delivery of this report to your operations team for Daily Gemba walks
• Set goals at the beginning of the quarter to reduce downtime reasons and track week over week to see if Continuous Improvement is being made

Report 2- Production Summary

This dashboard gives an overview of everything that ran yesterday by machine and shift. It also breaks down the week-to-date production, and week-over-week progress so you can see how production is trending over the year.

Amper Recommends…

• Set up your filters and schedule a daily delivery of this report to your operations team for Daily Gemba walks
• If you want more insight into job-by-job information, use the right-click drill in feature to see how specific jobs ran.

Report 3 - OEE Summary

The purpose of this dashboard is to analyze OEE. For any date range, you can view your Availability, Quality, Performance by date, shift, cell, machine, operator and part number. This helps you get down to the true Root Cause of your inefficiencies.

Amper Recommends…

• As needed for analysis, set up your filters and click through the report to review OEE and it’s root causes.
• Set up Monthly and Quarterly deliveries of this report to Engineering and Continuous Improvement Management for decision making.

Report 4 - Part Performance

This dashboard was built to help you analyze Part Performance. You can see your “uncapped performance” metric which is the ratio of your target cycle time to your actual cycle time. Use this report to update your ERP and quote future jobs more effectively!

Amper Recommends…

• As needed for analysis, set up your filters and click through the report to review part performance.
• Use information from this report to find your top performers and lowest performers. Update target cycle times in your ERP and optimize routings to get accurate production predictions and quotes.
• Set up a weekly report to product engineers to keep the ERP up to date.
• Use right the click “drill-in” tool to see other dimensions for each part such as, machine, operator, date ran, shift…etc.

Report 5 - Operator Performance

The purpose of this dashboard is to review your operator performance. You can see your top performing operators alongside with their hours of uptime, downtime and total parts produced. Below you’ll see a stack chart of the top downtimes per operator and you can filter this page for certain downtime codes. The pareto and table below will show which codes you filter for.

Amper Recommends…

• Set up your filters and schedule a weekly delivery of this report to your operations team. This is great for weekly accountability and even operator incentive programs!
• You can set up your filters to only show “unlabeled” downtime and see which operators need to improve their labeling.
• Some customers want to track paid labor utilization and want to give operators “credit” for things like “break/lunch” or “setup”. You can set your filters to include these if you so choose.

Report 6: Late Starts Early Stops

The purpose of this report is to analyze your late starts and early stops on your machines. Late Starts and Early Stops are measures of time that Amper calculates based on when production first starts or last ends within a given shift.

You can set your own thresholds for when you consider production to have started/stopped. We call this Time to Break Idle. This is the amount of green continuous production time that needs to happen to stop the idle time at the beginning of the shift or start the idle time at the end of the shift.

How is this used:

• Late Start - Late Start is the start of the shift to the point where we’ve seen enough continuous production to call the machine “running”.
• Early Stop - Early Stop is the last continuous production time to the shift end time.

That can be set as a factory default and/or overridden by machine-specific settings, under “Machine Settings”.

Here is what the dashboard will look like!

Amper Recommends…

• Set up a weekly report of the last 30 days to review how your trends are going
• Great for Operations Managers and GMs
• Set up a daily report of yesterday to address any immediate concerns - see your top and bottom performers from yesterday
• Great for Supervisors (You can filter by machine or cell that each supervisor wants to see)