Case Study : Improving Efficiency and Control with Electronic Shift Logs
As part of a significant business restructuring initiative a multinational chemical producer needed to make significant step change in the management of key performance indicators and other operational data generated by the operations shift teams.
FoCul developed a Manufacturing Information System which allowed the plant operators to use electronic shift logs to capture their observations and data. The logs from the individual operating units are automatically consolidated into team logs and then ultimately a shift log. The individual operators, team leaders and shift manager each sign for their logs using secure credentials.
The information collected from the different production areas is then consolidated through a series of on-screen reports. The top level report is displayed as a colour coded dashboard showing progress against target for the last 24 hours, week to date , month to date and year to date for HSE, production, stocks and OEE.
The system has extensive functionality to export data to Excel where it can be automatically manipulated and graphed. This functionality is used to produce OEE data from the loss time reports recorded in the shift logs.
Data from the system is also exported to other business systems such as the FoCul developed Energy Reporting Application which uses the production volumes in calculating the site energy efficiency.
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