AD AC Automotive gains realtime visibility into root causes of machine downtime

"Machine downtime has a large impact on direct and indirect labor variance and lost production throughput, so it was essential AD AC make a shift to a Smart Factory concept to maximize machine availability," said Brent Warren, director of assembly operations. [...]AD AC Automotive implemen...

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Published inPlant Engineering Vol. 75; no. 9; pp. 7 - 8
Main Author Trent Maw, Trent
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Barrington CFE Media 01.11.2021
Subjects
Assembly
Downtime
Industrial plants
Manufacturers
Manufacturing
Molding (process)
Molding machines
Preventive maintenance
Production lines
Real time
Visibility
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Summary:"Machine downtime has a large impact on direct and indirect labor variance and lost production throughput, so it was essential AD AC make a shift to a Smart Factory concept to maximize machine availability," said Brent Warren, director of assembly operations. [...]AD AC Automotive implemented L2L's Reliability and Production system in four Michigan-based manufacturing facilities, where frontline personnel across the production and maintenance functions leverage it daily. The results speak By integrating 287 assembly assets and 58 molding machines to automatically report descriptive machine downtime events, AD AC now has a standard real-time process across all shifts, departments and facilities for monitoring and responding to these issues quickly, on more than 200 production lines.
ISSN:0032-082X
1558-2957