ANT Add-Ons
The main products like OEE Performance Monitoring, MES or PDMS is just the beginning.
To squeeze even more from your production and place your factory on another level, we need to talk about ANT add-ons.
Paperless Production – eliminate paper and paperwork from your production with modern digital tools and forms.
Real-Time Scheduling – improve accuracy planning with optimisation algorithms and make it more reliable by using real cycle time and history learning.
微停机监测 – locate bottlenecks, measure precise micro-stops time and find the root cause for slow cycles and production line stops.
Machine Control – automatically upload programs, recipes and set-points to your machines and reduce production launching time.
互动会议 – improve your daily production meetings by replacing whiteboards with interactive, digital touchscreens
Examples of Add-Ons for smart factories
Paperless production
Features:
- 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 生产 和 交接
- Fill the data automatically in the forms based on data from machines and production order
效益：
- 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
Real-Time Scheduling
Features:
- Plan your production base on the product’s real cycle time to make it more reliable
- Optimise plan by the algorithm that selects the best possible sequence, machines and resources
- Drag&drop production orders on the Gantt timeline
效益：
- Get a more accurate plan thanks to 历史学习 and real cycle times
- 更短 和 fewer 转换 thanks to the changeover matrix
- Improve timely execution of orders and on-time shipment
微停机监测
Features:
- Detect automatically each, even the shortest stop of the machine with its reason from PLC
- Do the deep integration with 遥控装置 to get even thousands of alarms and production data
- ǞǞǞ algorithm calculates the responsible machine and its root cause for line stop
效益：
- 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
Features:
- Automatically send setpoints and programs to the machine’s PLC
- Control machine and send its PLC recipes
- Make automated changeovers on-the-fly
效益：
- Reduce changeover time significantly
- Eliminate human errors by setting machine setpoints automatically
- Reduce time spent on management of recipe changes
互动会议
Features:
- 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
效益：
- Eliminate whiteboards from production with touchscreen
- Decrease time spent on daily meetings 和 shift changes
- Increase employees engagement through production transparency
