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News Release from: Citect | Subject: CitectIIM Performance
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 May 2005
MES proactively targets improvements in
OEE
CitectIIM Performance achieves fast gains in uptime, production and total capacity by proactively targeting improvements in OEE
Citect has launched CitectIIM Performance, the first manufacturing execution system (MES) to provide powerful analytical capabilities that enable companies to increase profits by proactively targeting performance improvements in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) CitectIIM Performance is a powerful solution that is easy to implement, intuitive to use and provides fast ROI as a result of achieving gains in machine and equipment uptimes, production and total capacity
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 28 Feb 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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CitectIIM Performance offers additional advantages in that it is modular and non-invasive, and is scaleable from the smallest to the largest plants; thus providing enterprise-wide solutions for benchmarking and total capacity gains.
In addition, as IIM solutions mould to the customer processes, companies don't need to change their existing performance measures.
This flexibility also enables the system to support multiple languages and to leverage the latest Microsoft technologies - it runs on Windows 2003 as well as Windows 2000 and includes integrated Windows security so the user need only log on once.
Prior to its UK launch, CitectIIM Performance has been proven with world-class customers in the mining, food and beverage, energy, automotive and infrastructure industries.
In one application, Western Mining Corporation Resources reported returns within days, achieving a 24% performance improvement in their underground railway haulage as part of its mine reliability programme.
In another, Impala Base Metal Refinery in South Africa reported savings in downtime, an hour of which is equivalent to 1M Rand.
"CitectIIM gives management a clear picture on production performance throughout the plant, by aggregating data from various systems and presenting an analysed, easy-to-understand snapshot", said Tim Spandiel, Plant Manager, Impala Platinum Holdings.
"Citect is committed to delivering high ROI and easy-to-use solutions to its customers world-wide," said Paul Hurst Of Citect UK.
"We expect so see continuous growth for our suite of IIM products during 2005, especially as they are part of a rapidly growing, "next generation" MES market which industry analysts, the ARC Advisory Group, predict will be worth approximately $3 billion by 2008".
Craig Resnick, ARC Advisory Group Research Director added, "OEE is a straight-forward approach to monitoring and managing the lifecycle of manufacturing assets.
OEE is a useful, but still underused metric based on the multiplication of a plant production rate, yield, and utilisation.
This metric should be adopted by manufacturers as part of their KPIs and Real-time Performance Management, (RPM) initiatives". Request a free brochure from Citect ...
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