Vensis Factory App
If your factory currently uses paper to track what’s happening, take a look at our Factory App. Users can track task completion as well as material usage, issues, resource allocation and more.
How does it work?
Many factories allocate work and track progress on paper or legacy systems. Data capture is often limited, there is a time lag in turning data captured to insight, there is a high overhead cost to capture, collect, organise, transcribe, and process data, and there is significant opportunity for errors in the tracking due to staff compliance, bad handwriting, damage in wet environment, loss of paper etc and the manual process to pull it all together.
Many questions remain unanswered:
- What volume of input materials were required for the output produced? How does this compare to what was costed for?
- How many hours are used per finished good?
- Is there variance of material and labour usage across shifts / days / dates?
- Where is waste created? What process was it created on? Which team was responsible? Are their trends by line, supplier, shift, team?
- What issues happened in the factory and on each line today? Are the issues repeating or one off?
- Is the audit trail complete?
The Vensis Factory App captures what is happening when it’s happening to answer these questions and more at the click of a button. With live overviews and a reporting dashboard the status of the factory is at your fingertips.
Benefits
- Reporting available instantly: no manual process lead time, doesn’t require shift to have finished and paper to have been collected
- Issue alerting: instant alerts when certain events happen to facilitate timely actionIssue alerting: instant alerts when certain events happen to facilitate timely action
- Streamlined data capture: details can be captured once and used multiple times, details such as date and time can be captured automatically, use of barcodes can speed up data capture and improve reliability
- Improved data quality: rules can be applied to reduce errors in data capture. Reports can be run to identify systematic misuse of the system
- Avoid paper process set up time each shift / day / week: printing and issuing capture sheets, collecting in, checking, organising, transcribing key data, and storing
- Avoid manual effort to create reports: release resource to drive improvements / reduce cost, and de-risk key person dependency
Overview of what the Factory App tracks:
- Tasks:
- Completion
- Total time taken
- Locations used
- Resource:
- Labour hours by task
- Who was involved in tasks
- Materials:
- Materials used
- Materials produced
- Waste produced
- Issues:
- What issues happened
- Time impact by issue
- Resolution status and details
