Responding effectively to production challenges as they occur is crucial in today’s market in order that your company's manufacturing performance remains competitive. The GAIN4 solution minimises production losses by facilitating real-time problem analysis and correction. However, individual modules address specific key needs:

Communication across the shop floor is critical to maximising production capacity and minimising losses. The GAIN4 Andon module:

• Immediately highlights manufacturing performance problems which can be escalated  immediately they occur, reducing lost time
• Displays plans and targets which are automatically modified based on current progress keeping staff informed
• Provides management with historical production data which can be interrogated to help identify underlying issues  

This module, coupled with Gemba's Alert feature means:

• Appropriate staff can be notified of an alert automatically at any time, wherever they are in the world, so that timely action can be taken
• Costs are minimised by prompts requiring positive action to be taken to neutralise an alert, thereby ensuring problems are not left unresolved  

Our Efficiency module provides an accurate OEE measure by:

• Taking into account all 3 key production parameters – availability of equipment, speed of equipment and quality of product – ensuring that changes to one aspect will not adversely affect another
• By providing timely information manufacturing performance is maximised with the system facilitating real-time problem analysis and correction    

With quality being a key factor in determining customer satisfaction, our Quality module:

• Minimises rejects caused by:-
  • poor pre-process activities
  • poor quality raw materials
  • inconsistent work processes
  • production parameters being out of tolerance