Ultra-simple Performance Monitoring

Monitoring operations across many sites and processes can be difficult. There are 4 issues that make this a challenge:

1. the quality of data can vary from one site to another.
2. the way that metrics are calculated is at the mercy of different interpretations for each site
3. metrics (such as OEE) are difficult to relate to business outcomes
4. solutions usually require a large, all-or-nothing, capital outlay

We have developed a method of performance monitoring that overcomes these issues and requires, on average, less than 4 inputs for each product run.

Information from this monitoring system can be used to:

1. compare modelled performance with monitored performance and so identify opportunities for improvement
2. compare different sites and processes using like-for-like metrics