The manufacturing industry is experiencing a historic benchmark – machines, production facilities and warehouse systems are capable of exchanging information autonomously, monitoring actions and controlling each other, generating great improvements in the industrial processes involved in production, engineering and services. 4.0 Cloud industrial revolution promises to unite two worlds, the manufacturing industry and the next generation of Information Technology, to create a new level of efficiency. OEE SAP is committed to driving this new industrial revolution through innovation in manufacturing processes.
Why companies are taking OEE SAP so seriously?
Companies are adapting the principles of Industry 4.0 through the development of Idea for Performance, a comprehensive business approach that seeks to increase the performance of products and services. This definition allows managing the complete life cycle of a machine or product. Integration of compliance and quality controls enables manufacturers to resolve non-compliance or quality deficit issues through corrective and preventive actions.
At the same time, shorter and more predictable cycle times are established, improving asset utilization and on-time deliveries. SAP has announced new versions of its manufacturing solutions, as well as updates for existing versions that cover the areas of sustainable engineering, manufacturing and operations.
OEE SAP HANA Management
A relevant aspect is that as part of its ‘Idea for Performance’ approach, both new and updated solutions will be prepared to work with the SAP Business Suite Management application package enhanced for the SAP HANA platform. In that sense, SAP is expecting to support Custom Manufacturing powered by SAP HANA, including the SAP OEE Management.
It is designed to collect data from machines, through machine-to-machine communication, and transforming that information into analytical excel visions. The ability to plan material requirements within the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning application to perform readings at high speed will reduce execution time by 50 percent.
What are the benefits of SAP HANA OEE?
SAP OEE is an integral component of Industry 4.0 and analyzes the performance loss of production systems. It determines the areas where resources are lost and the effect. SAP HANA OEE lets the operators being in a position to make informed choices on the base of OEE numbers, to guarantee that the business’s value is maintained in the face of growing complexity.
It greatly allows for rapid automated data capture and analysis. The data is prepared in a transparent manner and in depth and so that the production manager is able to calculate, control and improve gradually the management of the process.
What companies need to do?
Despite the fact that the measurement of Overall Equipment Efficiency is an increasingly disseminated industrial management practice, analysts have proposed alternative indicators to it in the literature to cope with performance measurement at the higher level of production systems. The current market KPI has increasingly demanded that manufacturing companies make their products available with quality, speed, flexibility, reliability and lower cost. In cases of mass production and continuous process manufacturing, it is essential to ensure high availability and reliability of software and equipment.
The need to prioritize the rationalization of the use of one resource or another depends on the type of process and product that the company offers to the market. Labor-intensive companies need to invest more in training and motivating human resources. Mass production companies need to seek high efficiency in the use of equipment and human resources, as well as in the consumption of material inputs. On the other hand, continuous process companies need to analyze highly predictable flow through intensive technologies
SAP HANA benefits for OEE
The advent of the philosophy of total productive maintenance under the auspices of the Japan institute of plant maintenance brought the notion that it is necessary to develop a more holistic view of the manufacturing system and that for this it is essential to establish a more comprehensive form measuring the use of productive capacity. Although the OEE has become a widely used indicator due to the simplicity and clarity of its conceptualization, this indicator reveals limitations such as the difficulty in defining and measuring certain data for its calculation, such as process cycle time and small stops. The SAP HANA becomes an indicator that fulfills this management control function.
In the end: Operation and OEE
Overall equipment efficiency is a method to evaluate the effectiveness of the equipment used in their manufacturing. OEE formula helps in studying the individuals as well as the processes and tools that affect the way assets function. When paired with the knowledge from other metrics, such as SAP HANA Management, OEE provides a great base for identifying areas of the operation, and provides a quantifiable way to evaluate improvement.
