Many manufacturing plants suffer from poor communication. Additionally, responsibility for improved productivity has continually shifted to the plant floor. Real-time performance information is necessary in order to quickly identify and resolve issues that reduce efficiency. Improving plant floor communication helps operators leverage real-time process information to increase productivity. Communicate real-time production data, process status, alarms and dynamic employee messages to inform, alert and motivate employees.

• Inform, Alert and Motivate
• Create a Visual Factory Environment
• Benchmark Kaizen and Lean Initiatives
• Real-Time Performance Information

The strategies below depict a few of the many problems our customers ask us to solve and the solutions we provide. Always feel free to call us if you'd like to discuss a specific problem or idea. We encourage you to use our application experience to help you improve your communication.

Strategies to Improve Communication

Inform, Alert and Motivate
PROBLEM	People typically have no idea what's going on in the plant and any communication is slow, inefficient and often inaccurate.
STRATEGY	Improve communication to inform, alert and motivate employees.
SOLUTION	Visual displays provide real-time delivery of information to the plant floor to inform, alert and motivate employees. Show real-time production data along with employee messages, display critical safety messages with a days since last lost time event or almost anything you can imagine. XL Series Production Monitor and M1000 2" to 4.5" large alphanumeric displays help you get the message across to inform, alert and motivate employees.
Create a Visual Factory Environment
PROBLEM	We are having difficulty driving productivity enhancements and lean initiatives.
STRATEGY	Provide real-time feedback of key performance indicators (KPIs).
SOLUTION	Imagine driving a car without a speedometer. You'd probably get a ticket – maybe for going too fast, maybe too slow. The point is that you can't fix what you don't know. It is extremely important to get real-time information to the people most likely to make positive changes in your manufacturing environment. Visual displays provide critical real-time data to the plant floor to enhance productivity. XL Series Production Monitor displays not only collect real-time production information, they display it for all to see. Additionally, they are capable of pushing real-time data over your network. Imagine seeing real-time production data on your PC using a simple web browser.
Benchmark Kaizen and Lean Initiatives
PROBLEM	We've begun a lean transformation but are struggling with methods of tracking our improvement cycles.
STRATEGY	Benchmark kaizen and lean initiatives by displaying goals for all to see.
SOLUTION	The key to a successful lean initiative is to measure, kaizen to improve and then measure once again to benchmark and expose successes or failures. XL Series Production Monitor displays not only collect real-time production information, they display it for all to see. Additionally, they are capable of pushing real-time data over your network. Imagine seeing real-time production data on your PC using a simple web browser.
Real-Time Performance Information
PROBLEM	We never know where we stand in relation to our production goals.
STRATEGY	Increase team awareness of real-time production data.
SOLUTION	Automatically display downtime when the line stops. Use color and context sensitive variable changes to further enhance the awareness. Display the real-time run rate in green when running and downtime in red when the line stops. The 87/415 Rate Display Plus can automatically detect and display accumulated downtime when the line has stopped and the real-time run rate or event when the line is running. XL Series Production Monitors can do all of this and more. For example, show simultaneously the last event and accumulated downtime or play a “Call for Supervisor” message when the downtime exceeds programmable amount of time.