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XL Productivity Appliance™

XL is an amazingly simple and effective solution for improving plant floor productivity. It’s an off-the-shelf product that delivers real-time manufacturing visibility and performance management tools to your entire manufacturing team. And it's an indispensible tool for lean manufacturing and real-time OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness).

  • Plug-and-play simplicity with built-in data collection and reporting.
  • A complete solution in one hardware appliance – no software to install.
  • Snaps into your network for instant web access.
  • Automatic down time detection including small stops.
  • Tracks OEE, takt, efficiency, down reasons, shift/job performance, and much more.
  • Provides visuals that motivate your operators to peak performance.

Super-Easy to Use

XL is designed to be your fastest, easiest, and best path to real-time performance management and productivity improvement. There is no complicated integration, no software to install, and no expensive add-on services. That’s why we offer 90-day trials and instant online demonstrations. It lets you experience firsthand why XL is such a remarkable product!

A Complete Solution

XL is complete and comprehensive. It includes a plant floor scoreboard, a production reporting system, performance management tools, visual analytics, an embedded plant floor historian, and browser-based live data. All integrated into one easy-to-install hardware appliance that can be up and running in hours. XL even creates print-ready barcodes that your operators can scan for downtime codes and part changeovers. And it measures Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in real-time.

Accurate Downtime Data

XL customers are often shocked when they discover their true downtime. Most companies dramatically underestimate how much productivity is lost to downtime and small stops. Since XL automatically detects down events and small stops it provides an extremely accurate picture of what is happening in the plant floor. It eliminates time consuming and error-prone manual data recording and personal bias. But XL does much more than merely collect data – it transforms that data into actionable analytics such as downtime trend analysis and Pareto-based reason code analysis.

Motivate Employees

XL motivates your production team to “win” their shift. People are naturally competitive. Provide them with attainable goals and a positive environment and they will work hard to meet those goals. XL provides real-time performance feedback directly to the plant floor so action equates to results – instantly.

Export Directly to Excel®

XL generates ready-to-use Excel spreadsheets with up-to-date, detailed production data. In fact, XL keeps the last 1,000 jobs and 1,000 shifts at your fingertips. With three clicks of your mouse you can deliver that data directly to your desktop via the XL web interface.

Instant Production Reports

XL generates instant production reports in Microsoft Word format. These reports are perfect for daily production meetings – where accurate and timely information is essential. Both job-based and shift-based reports are immediately available from XL for review and analysis. And it’s fast. Reports can be loaded directly to your desktop in seconds.

Real-Time Results

XL provides a real-time window to your manufacturing process. On the plant floor the XL scoreboard shows at a glance if your process is on target (green), slightly deviating (amber), or requires immediate attention (red). But that is just the beginning. XL also delivers real-time KPIs anywhere and everywhere through a simple web browser. Bottom-line – losses are exposed in real-time for immediate corrective action.

Pick Your Own KPIs

XL tracks 100+ metrics out-of-the-box including OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), Performance to Takt, Efficiency, and much more. You can also create custom KPIs using our math library, and you can even create personalized web pages that collect together key metrics for viewing (KPI Controls) or information for submitting (Form Controls).

Field Proven

XL is used in thousands of installations across all major industries, at companies like Boeing, Bosch, Caterpillar, Coca-Cola, Energizer, Estée Lauder, General Electric, Georgia-Pacific, Goodyear, Kohler, Mattel, Nestlé, Panasonic, Pella, Revlon, Sara Lee, Sony, Starbucks, Toyota, Trane, and Whirlpool.