The process of creating incremental changes to products, services, processes, or systems is known as continuous improvement. It is a continuous attempt to improve product and service quality, increase efficiency, and minimize costs. Continuous improvement seeks to discover and improve existing methods and procedures in order to maintain a high degree of quality and consistency.
Continuous improvement applies to all sectors of company and entails a combination of research, analysis, experimentation, and change implementation. It is a continuous process of aiming for perfection while keeping consumer input and market conditions in mind. Continuous improvement can result in better customer happiness, less waste and errors, and increased revenues.
Learn how microstops monitoring, paperless production, interactive meetings or machine control module can boost your productivity, increase production volumes and meet compliance standards.
Working in production requires continuous improvement of processes and more efficient tools that help in daily activities. At ANT, we understand these needs, which is why we respond to them with additional modules that supplement missing features in the production line.
Detect automatically each, even the shortest stop of the machine with its reason from PLC
Do the deep integration with PLC to get even thousands of alarms and production data
The algorithm calculates the responsible machine and its root cause for line stop
Get accurate, aggregated, real data to stop the stops
Understand why the machines lose availability and have actual data to take actions
Spend less time for manually reporting machine states
Replace all paper documents, forms, instructions with the digital version by using the drag&drop tool
Display step by step activities to guide the operator through production and changeover
Fill the data automatically in the forms based on data from machines and production order
Save time and money thanks to paper and paperwork elimination
Ensure that the production process was executed with planned, standardised technology
Reduce human errors and increase production repeatability
Automatically send setpoints and programs to the machine’s PLC
Control machine and send its PLC recipes
Make automated changeovers on-the-fly
Reduce changeover time significantly
Eliminate human errors by setting machine setpoints automatically
Reduce time spent on management of recipe changes
Organise a daily meeting with agenda and an automated filled dashboard
Generate charts automatically with real-time data feed
Monitor team’s tasks and their progress
Eliminate whiteboards from production with touchscreen
Decrease time spent on daily meetings and shift changes
Increase employees engagement through production transparency