Lean Impact On-Line is the affordable Cloud solution that allows you to enter production data on-line and immediately generate graphical reports that will analyse and prioritise production problems and their causes. It will help you understand what's really happening in your facility and what you need to change to get the biggest cost reductions quickly.
Lean Impact On-Line provides a baseline OEE figure for your machine, line or plant, and allows you to report on downtime, quality, rejects, speed, labour usage, production figures etc, querying over products, machines, shifts etc.
As Lean Impact On-Line is run as a Cloud solution, your costs are kept to a minimum (you pay a monthly rental) and there is no investment in hardware/IT. Your data is stored on our secure servers and maintenance/backup activities are dealt with on your behalf. Users can view and input data via their internet browser at any time, from anywhere, and numbers of concurrent users are not restricted. Preconfigured screens and a whole host of standard reports mean that you can be up and running in just hours, and users can customise their own home pages to allow easy access to favourite reports etc.
Here's why you shouldn't use spreadsheets instead...
Design & Setup
At this initial stage, just working out which data you’ll need to record can be a mammoth task - think about shift information, downtime reasons, reject counts and reasons, throughput figures, production standards, etc. Getting all this set up in a spreadsheet and then designing reports that will turn all this raw data in to useful information can take forever. You might want to report on OEE, downtime (planned and unplanned), wastage, production figures etc, and display as charts, bar graphs, grid displays, production summaries etc. Then think about querying over products, machines, shifts etc.
Lean Impact On-Line can be deployed within a couple of hours. The expertise in design ensures critical information is brought to your attention quickly and easily.
Time spent entering data and producing reports
With spreadsheets, data entry can be a hugely time-consuming task involving lots of people. This becomes even more difficult given that most spreadsheet packages will only allow one user at a time to enter data in to a spreadsheet. Errors in formulas can cause havoc. Think about this in £ note terms for your company.
Data vs Information
Collecting masses of production data is pointless unless you can turn that data in to meaningful information that will allow you to make improvements and cost savings. Being submerged under a pile of spreadsheets can make it really difficult to see the wood for the trees and will, as a minimum, slow down the path to efficiency. The worst case scenario is that something vital gets missed, lost in a sea of data or hidden by errors in spreadsheet formulas etc.
Some of our clients have told us:
"Moving from a spreadsheet package to Lean Impact On-Line resulted in data-entry labour being reduced by 80% and time spent entering data and creating reports being reduced by 86%."
"Lean Impact On-Line software is allowing us to make significant savings throughout our manufacturing facilitiy each year. Through these savings, the system paid for itself in 6 weeks."
Still using spreadsheets for OEE?
If you use an existing spreadsheet package to measure OEE, you may make a saving on initial outlay for software and training. However this will quickly be outweighed by the benefits that a dedicated OEE on line solution can provide. Gemba’s affordable, entry-level OEE in the Cloud solution also includes free technical support and initial training and set-up assistance, a database backup service and advice from our team of experts about how to get the best out of your data. Your existing data can even be uploaded from your spreadsheets into Gemba's software, so you don't lose any information.
Still using spreadsheets for OEE? Contact us today and let us help you take the first step on the path to real production efficiency by measuring OEE on line.