Unique Challenges
Televisions, VCRs, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, microwaves, CD/DVD players, cell phones and personal computers are just some of the products produced by consumer durables manufacturers. Production efficiency and quality are critical in order to maintain a competitive advantage and consumer satisfaction.
In order to be profitable while producing high-quality products the production environment must be managed in real-time. The sections below provide a brief list of the more prominent consumer durables manufacturing applications and the customers we've helped.
Popular Applications
| Count/Rate/Downtime display | |
|---|---|
| APPLICATION |
Production count, the current run rate and automatic detection and display of accumulated downtime is one of the most popular application in consumer durables applications, particularly in appliance manufacturing. |
| PRODUCT |
87/415 Rate Display Plus, XL400 Production Monitors Numeric 4" to 12", XL600 Production Monitors Numeric 2" Multi-line, XL800 Production Monitors Text and Graphics 9" |
| Target/Actual/Efficiency display | |
| APPLICATION |
In order to ensure than products are being produced at the target rate, a takt-based target count along with the actual good part count and a calculated efficiency display is used. Providing operators this information gives them the data they needed to consistently meet production goals. |
| PRODUCT |
87/805 Efficiency Display, XL400 Production Monitors Numeric 4" to 12", XL600 Production Monitors Numeric 2" Multi-line |
| OEE plus display | |
| APPLICATION |
Many consumer durables manufacturers use OEE to benchmark productivity enhancements and create awareness. OEE can easily be displayed along with your choice of more than 100 other real-time production variables such as average cycle time, a takt-based target count and other KPIs. |
| PRODUCT |
XL400 Production Monitors Numeric 4" to 12", XL600 Production Monitors Numeric 2" Multi-line, XL800 Production Monitors Text and Graphics 9" |
Consumer Durables Customers
The following represents just of few of the many customers in the consumer durables industry that we've helped with our solutions
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• Amana Appliance |
• Motorola |
