CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
16 April 2013
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How to Manage and Organize Ideas for Process Improvement
At the upcoming exhibition "IndustrieLyon 2013", from 16 to 19 April, KRONTIME (stand 6w68) unveils the 2013 version of its software intended for Production Engineers. Without an equivalent on the market, the software suite Krontime Improvement® provides information on the status of ongoing actions in the plant or in the Group. It analyses and compares the different sites.
Without an equivalent in the world of Production Engineering, the Suite Application KRONTIME IMPROVEMENT® is specially designed for engineers working daily on improving processes in Mechanics, Food Processing and fine Chemical industries
"We have clients who own several plants and need to manage 50 to 100 ideas of improvement processes each week. It can be difficult to choose the best improvement, document it, follow the installation, estimate the Return On Investment (ROI), select the best ideas and then use them in other factories" explains Jordi Portella, Manager of the Software Editor. "Our application Suite offers an effective way to exploit the vast reservoir of ideas for improvements that exist in any business»
- Ideas Inbox Management is a module designed to leverage employee's experiences and ideas to improve working operations and overall production efficiencies. This product allows users to collect, document and share ideas for improvement. Once all the ideas have been collected, the Production Engineer can start documenting the process.
- The module Management and Planning of Improvements manage improvement ideas coming from personnel on all levels of the company, standardise the methodology of continuous improvement processes and organise the implementation of improvement actions. The outcome is not only a more efficient business but can also lead to changes in people's behaviour. Most companies' business advantage starts when the workforce leads the improvement of manufacturing processes. Krontime offers an effective user-friendly solution to identify, maintain and report process improvements. Implementing an appropriate improvement plan and continuous improvement culture, will have direct impact on the process analysis and process indicators, which will have a better overall equipment effectiveness.
- The module Info-Line Dashboard provides real time information to managers and team leaders about improvement initiatives (ROI, budget) and implementation progress.
- The module Multi-site Analysis systemizes and increases productivity and efficiency of multi-site companies, supporting and controlling manufacturing process improvement actions with respect to specified objectives and global productivity plans. Corporate managers will be able to track improvements, benefit from automatic dashboards and compare improvement results for different plants from within the group.
Engineers in charge of process improvements are then able to monitor the 50 to 100 improvement actions in the company. Using graphic tools, they can easily compare the projected gains and real gains, month by month, accumulated over the year, action by action, by department or in the overall factory.
Another advantage: with the unique database and dynamic links, it is very easy to go back to studies related to find key data, build an improvement project identical on another site or understand the history of a project...All these data are traceable and will be reusable by Production Engineers in the group.
«As soon as a project is successful, information, feedback and history may be communicated to the other factories of the group for general deployment. "Gains are considerable" concludes Jordi Portella, Manager of the Software Editor.
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