Downtime monitoring
Keep track of machinery utilisation with real-time visibility of the reasons behind downtime.
Shoestring’s downtime monitoring solution gives companies an easy way to get started and see how digitalisation benefits their business, building in-house digital skills along the way. The programme walks employees through the stages required to build and deploy the downtime monitoring starter solution, providing a practical learning experience.
Solve time-consuming problems
Quickly get answers to questions such as:
What is my machinery utilisation?
Which machines or operations have the most downtime?
What are the most frequent reasons for downtime across production?
The benefits
Shoestring’s downtime monitoring solution allows you to:
Reduce downtime
Quickly identify and address problems
Improve machine utilisation
What’s needed from you?
A solution champion
Someone who will champion the solution deployment and make sure it gets the time and attention needed to make it a success (this person will get hands-on experience leading a digital project).
A solution implementer
Someone who will do what is needed to get the solution deployed (this person will develop practical digital skills – the only prerequisite is being interested).
What you get:
How the solution works
Update machinery status via an app loaded on a tablet, computer or phone. Staff can then see the status in real-time on a dashboard, download the data and analyse trends.
How to set up the solution
Downtime monitoring is simple to set up and use. Here’s how:
- Use an app on a tablet, phone or computer to update the machinery status
- Define the machinery and possible reasons for downtime
- Use the simple start/stop buttons for reporting downtime
- Add a reason for stopping
- Dashboards show downtime across all machines, broken down in various useful ways
How the solution works
Update machinery status via an app loaded on a tablet, computer or phone. Staff can then see the status in real-time on a dashboard, download the data and analyse trends.
How to set up the solution
Downtime monitoring is simple to set up and use. Here’s how:
- Use an app on a tablet, phone or computer to update the machinery status
- Define the machinery and possible reasons for downtime
- Use the simple start/stop buttons for reporting downtime
- Add a reason for stopping
- Dashboards show downtime across all machines, broken down in various useful ways
Case study:
Downtime monitoring at Howard Park Wines
Located in the heart of the renowned Margaret River region of Western Australia, Howard Park Wines is a medium-sized winery producing premium wines for retail, restaurants, and supermarkets across Australia and the UK.
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