Silae Product Framework

OEE is the gold standard and globally accepted productivity framework. In essence, OEE is how efficient a factory operates compared to its full potential capacity: producing only good pieces, as fast as possible, with no stop time

OEE Analysis

OEE analysis requires primarily 5 data points 

1. Planned Production Time

2. Stop Time

3. Ideal Cycle Time

4. Total Count 

5. Good Count 

How Silae brings OEE to your factory floor

Silae draws from OEE and makes it accessible to the production floor without the need to know the theoretical framework. Production floor continues to work the way they do and continues to use the same terms and metrics that they are used to. 

Silae’s powerful cloud engine does all the work in the background and masks the complexity. 

• Instant actionable insights in mobile app for operational decision making.

• Data Feeds to automate report generation for Tactical weekly production review meetings or Strategic monthly production review meetings or other purposes.

Silae translates all collected data to actionable terms that production floor supervisors understand:

• Target: a real-time production target driven by the planned rate of production

• Actual: the actual production count

• Efficiency: the ratio of Target to Actual

• Loss Time: accumulated unplanned stop time for the shift 

One of the emerging requirements to stay competitive is to be profitable with smaller lot sizes. This requires factories to eliminate all wastes from their changeover times. 

The gold standard for reduction of changeover times is SMED. Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) is a method used to minimize changeover losses. The essence of the SMED system is to convert as many changeover steps as possible to “external” (performed while the system is running), and to simplify and streamline the remaining steps.

Silae provides a mobile based interface that helps minimize the time taken for changeovers. The app allows Industrial Engineers to plan changeovers in advance, and provides easy ways to configure lines, machines and employees for changeovers.

Silae also provides real-time insights about the factory floor that lets management study changeovers and plan better.

The core concept of the Theory of Constraints is that every process has a single constraint and that total process throughput can only be improved when the constraint is improved. 

A very important corollary to this is that spending time optimizing non-constraints will not provide significant benefits; only improvements to the constraint will further the goal (achieving more profit).

Silae is designed to provide precise and sustained focus on improving the current bottleneck (constraint) in real-time until it no longer limits throughput, at which point the focus moves to the next bottleneck (constraint). 

Silae design includes a problem solving methodology called the Thinking Processes. Once a bottleneck is identified, Silae delivers insights to answer the following three questions:

• What needs to be changed?

• What should it be changed to?

• What actions will cause the change?

Short Interval Control (SIC) is a structured process for identifying and acting on opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of production. 

It is a factory-floor process that engages team members to review performance data three or four times within their shift to assess where they need to focus their efforts to improve performance.

A key feature of SIC is the use of real-time production data to guide instantaneous front-line decision-making. 

Silae auto collects and performs analysis on the data so that teams focus is on reacting to this data and drive significant performance improvement from the factory floor.  The information in easy to consume formats for different roles, enabling easy collaboration.

Visibility is one of the most important catalysts to drive continuous improvement. If everyone is able to see the process, it provides everyone, from factory floor contributors to senior management, with a shared, true understanding of capacity, productivity and process efficiency.

Kanban is the gold standard of visual project management that leverages on the human brain’s preference for visual content over written content. 

Silae’s kanban inspired mobile apps help teams understand and analyze what really happens in their work in real time. 

Instead of reading a written report about how the team is doing, they can visualize workflow better through a Kanban board.