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Eliminate the non-productive labor and errors of manual data collection.

A user-selectable “Scale Factor” enablesMDT to automatically track multiple partsmade each machine cycle. ScaleFactor can be number of mold cavities open, or the circumference of a drivecylinder/roll, or the length of product thatcut off by an automatic saw.

Present and format data your way: custom reports and exporting data.

Crystal Reports are used to generate the standard reports included in the system. Crystal Reports can be used tocreate virtually any report you may wish. If your Six Sigma team members, Managers or Supervisors need a specific report, simply design the report within Crystal, import the design into the report generator, and simply “point and click” to select the information you need displayed in the report. The information is easily exported to most database tools, spreadsheets and word processing applications.

Determine r eal Job Standards to help improve your Job costing process.

Summary: Managers

Page 1 Product ID; Machine Number Printed 7/6/04 at 13:32 From 7/6/04 to 7//7/04 Machine Date Shift Product ID Work Overall Run Down Mach Shift Shift Yield Stnd Shift Rate Order Eff% Hours Hours Util. % Parts Rejcts % Rate Rate Eff.% 14 Emba 7/6/04 Day 36SSA 92.0 4.4 3.6 55.5 38,747 102 99.7 86.7 145.3 167.614 Emba 7/6/04 PM 36SSA 48.1 2.8 5.2 34.0 20,620 254 98.8 86.7 123.2 142.114 Emba 7/6/04 Eve 36SSA 99.0 5.0 3.0 62.0 41,416 158 99.6 86.7 137.3 158.4 Grand Totals: 79.1 12.2 11.8 50.5 100, 783 514 99.7 - - 156.0 At first glance, who wouldn’t be happy with the above report? Day and Evening Shifts were able to obtain a 92 and99 % Overall Efficiency respectively. However, when reviewing all the components of the report, you will see amuch different picture. Note across three shifts the Standard Rate Machine Utilizations vs. Shift Rate , and the that range from 34-62%. ProductionACEwill help you increase those numbers by allowing you to determine root causes of the problems: in this case, the most important aspect is the comparison of the Rate Efficiency. Note that whenthe machine was running for 50.5% of the day, it was running on average at 156% faster than the standard calls for.How does this affect quality? Why is the machine only running half of the available time? Why is the machine runningalmost twice the speed that is specified? ProductionACE will help you answer these questions so you can determine real job standards and improve your costing process. The system provides automatic and on-demand, standard and custom reports of Shift and Daily Production, Downtime,Reject, Material Used, and Productivity---selected by date range, shift, machine, product, sorted by machine, product, mold/die/tool, or Work Order. Each group of machines or departments may be reported separately. This screen allows you to define criteria for reports.