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Manufacturing Production Cell Solutions

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Manufacturing production cells are most often physically isolated groupings of automation into which components are fed, and completed assemblies are fed from. Infeed components to cells can come from automated sources as well as manual operators. As a result of the isolated design of production cells - combined with often complex production mixes and material flow - operation, engineering and maintenance are faced with the unending need to understand OEE, quality/scrap output, pending equipment failures require planned downtime to remediate and throughput. Over the past four decades, customers have trusted JR Automation to mesh together their complex production systems. The resulting front row seat to the evolution of cellular manufacturing compelled us to invest in the technologies our valued customers need for performance improvement.


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Digital solutions play a particularly important role in driving the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) of manufacturing production cells due to the nature of their design. Often manufacturing production cells are unmanned and located in isolated locations of a manufacturing facility.

Manufacturing execution (MES) production systems, data collection, and the industrial internet of things (IIOT) provide the eyes, ears, voice, and brain of the equipment and production optimization, and without them manufacturing companies can face staggering production losses. Common issues for automated production cells can include: 

  • Downtime sustained because of equipment wear and failure with no predictive means of detection or annunciation
  • Complex order schedules, customer demands, and profitability is sub-optimized for production cell automation equipment utilization that negatively impacts production, customer satisfaction, and profitability
  • Material flow shortages or model mix requirements are mismatched to production demands, causing blocked and starved production flow 
  • Unmonitored and out of sequence issues are particularly detrimental as they result in either production cell stoppages, extended output of scrap production, or work-in-production (WIP) purges
  • Undetected degeneration of quality production due to complex production recipes without component traceability and preventing product shipping holds
  • Lack of real-time KPI generation - resulting in growing gaps between manufacturing targets and actual performance
The robust manufacturing equipment system (MES) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) solutions INGENOVA360 provides can benefit manufacturing companies greatly. Manufacturing Production Cells advantageously leverage such functions as:
  • OEE Management
  • Predictive failure detection and annunciation (PDM)
  • Maintenance Management
  • Quality Management
  • Recipe Management 

INGENOVA360 solutions are both scalable and extensible. They can be adapted to a customer’s needs and provide the following functions and benefits:

  • Monitoring the degradation of production equipment to predict equipment failure and drive planned instead of unplanned downtime to avoid bottlenecks
  • Continuously calculating and dashboarding real-time OEE and display KPI trends
  • Utilizing machine learning and AI to generate automated and/or resource driven actionable corrective actions to optimize production
  • Managing production schedules and routing utilizing AI, optimizing production to customer, urgency, and profitability to production cell utilization.
  • Analyzing post-run quality and performance data to support process, component, and system improvement initiatives
  • Generating means schedules to ensure production resources correspond appropriately to production demand
  • Managing production routing, product and material tracking to prevent “out of sequence” issues facilitating production schedules being kept, while quality data collection and product traceability provide consistency, uniformity and historic records

INGENOVA360 digital solutions deliver data collection, information, and insights which enhances the automated monitoring, annunciation, and actionable tasks demanded by unmanned or isolated manufacturing production cells. INGENOVA360’S performance and KPI dashboards facilitate continuous real-time visualization for optimized response to changing inputs and system conditions as well as analysis and display of operating performance and quality KPIs. This results in proactively addressing issues as they arise.