Signal Manager: Problems Solved
Problems with traditional signal systems:
- Plant supervisors and line managers must constantly maintain line-of-sight (for lights) or within earshot (for chimes and buzzers) of signal devices in order to stay up-to-date on events
occurring on plant floor or distribution center
- Even the most observant and tenacious plant manager can't keep track of the historical activity of only a limited number signal lights and chimes at a time; in addition, using managers' time to constantly monitor signals on the plant floor can come at a very high opportunity cost to companies who expect managers to fulfill multiple roles for the company
- Critical machine and device state history -- including machine / device name, signal time / date, & signal duration -- is lost almost immediately from moment to moment; without a record of past signal events, the company forgoes an invaluable opportunity for process improvement based on captured signal data
- Key personnel such as materials managers, quality managers, and line supervisors respond more slowly than necessary to critical situations that require their immediate attention in order to avoid costly line stoppages and inefficient bottlenecks
- CEOs, CFOs, and COOs lack critical, accurate, and timely operational reports about what is actually occuring on the plant floor
How Signal Manager tackles these problems:
- Unties the hands of plant managers and supervisors who previously spent too much time awaiting critical events to occur on the plant floor; allows managers to contribute the bulk of their time to those activities that have the most significant impact on the company's bottom line
- Automatically keeps track of all signals fired, relieving efficiency-conscious managers from the near-impossible task of trying to keep a complete, accurate manual record of signal events as they occur
- Creates a valuable long term historical data record of all fired signals that can be applied to Six Sigma and lean manufacturing-style efficiency improvement initiatives or for the company's own, home-grown analysis style
- Notifies key personnel of critical events, regardless of whether they are in the plant (or in the world); notification takes place via mobile phone, pager, text message, PDA, e-mail, Web updates, and more
- Top management personnel receive critical operational reports as often as desired by accessing Signal Manager's built-in data charts and graphs from their offices or via Internet connection while traveling
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