Smart Factory

Take control & unlock productivity

Visualise, Analyse, Improve

Bringing together live status and performance analytics of both resources and jobs, the Smart Factory solution gives you the power to make real-time, data-driven decisions. It comprises of the following AIR modules:

Identify and tackle even the smallest, often-overlooked causes of performance loss. Find that critical 1% advantage that your competitors are missing and keep your edge in this fast-paced market.

Single Source

Everything your operators need in one place. Easily find job information and input data.

Increase Visibility

See what's happening on the shopfloor at all times and improve responsiveness to causes of productivity loss

Gain Insights

Use the latest, enriched production analytics to inform decisions and underpin improvement initiatives

Seiki AIR digital work queue on a tablet

A Visual Factory

In today’s fast-paced manufacturing environment, clear and actionable insights are the key to achieving peak performance. Visual management transforms complex data into easy-to-understand visual displays, empowering your team to make informed decisions faster than ever before.

Our visual management tools bring your shop floor to life by presenting real-time machine status, job progress, and performance metrics in a way that’s intuitive and impactful. Whether displayed on large screens across the factory or accessed on devices (PC, laptop, tablet), these visuals align your entire team around shared goals and drive productivity improvements.

Make fast, data-driven decisions

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What a Smart Factory solution can do for you

Enhanced Clarity: Replace information silos with a single source of truth that everyone can understand at a glance.
Faster Decision-Making: Identify issues in real-time and take corrective actions before small problems escalate into costly downtime.
Improved Accountability: Create a culture of ownership by making performance data visible to all stakeholders, from operators to management.
Increased Efficiency: Visualise machine utilisation, job progress, and productivity trends to pinpoint bottlenecks and optimise resource allocation.
Motivated Teams: Empower your workforce with clear performance goals and live feedback, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.

Machine Monitoring

Enhanced Production History: Combine machine status data with job progress to create a comprehensive view of each operation, including actual setup and run times compared to planned. Use the insights to identify inefficiencies and support more accurate production planning.

Automated Alerts: Empower your team to address problems before they escalate.

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Prioritised Work Queues

Real-Time Updates: Go paperless and automatically update the shopfloor with the latest production plan for each machine as defined by your planning team, ensuring operators are working to the current priorities.

Enhanced Productivity: Minimise delays and bottlenecks by clearly visualising job statuses and dependencies, allowing teams to focus on critical tasks.

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Digital Jobpacks with NC Program Transfer

Paperless manufacturing: Provide operators with the production information that they need to complete an operation, directly from the work queue, reducing the need for physical documents and expensive re-prints.

Revision Control: Maintain a complete digital record of job files and part revisions.

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Overall Equipment Effectiveness

Improve productivity: provide users with provide greater analysis flexibility and the ability to drill down into the contributing data of each OEE Factor.

Base decisions on facts: small events that may have previously been missed or recorded inaccurately are taken into account when captured in real-time.

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	Smart Machine	Smart Factory	Smart Enterprise
Automatic machine monitoring	Included	Included	Included
Customisable status grid for capturing machine downtime reasons	Included	Included	Included
Digital Jobpacks with part revision and file version control	Included	Included	Included
NC program transfer (DNC) with user permission control	Included	Included	Included
Machine event audit trails	Included	Included	Included
OEE Reporting	Included	Included	Included
Live machine status dashboard and andon screens	Included	Included	Included
Machine utilisation analysis reporting	Included	Included	Included
Prioritised digital work queues		Included	Included
Job bookings: start, pause, complete, good and scrap part quantities		Included	Included
Digital Batch Card		Included	Included
First Off Inspection tracking		Included	Included
Live Works Order status dashboards		Included	Included
Production History and Production Analysis reporting		Included	Included
Interactive graphical planning boards			Included
Automated scheduling rules			Included
Snapshot comparison of plans			Included
Planning of assemblies			Included
Workload view over short, medium and long term			Included
Graphical view of consequences of changes			Included
Enterprise Application Interface to third-party system		Included	Included

Monitoring the status of your manufacturing machining resources

Smart Machine

Create a strong foundation for your digitally connected shopfloor by connecting each machine to automate data collection, control NC program transfer and unlock powerful insights to drive productivity.

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