Activplant Media & Downloads
The Activplant Media Center is designed to provide more information about Activplant's products and solutions. Here you will find white papers, archived webinars and other downloads that demonstrate how Activplant can make your operations more efficient and profitable.
Activplant and the Manufacturing Enterprise
Featuring Brad Ward, Tower Automotive, and Mathew Rynard, Activplant Corporation
Mathew Rynard, CTO, Activplant Corporation and Brad Ward, Tower Automotive discuss Activplant's capabilities and contributions to the manufacturing enterprise.
Activplant's Business Intelligence for Manufacturing Operations solutions are not only designed for rollout and optimization of lines, departments, and plants, but come with capabilities and features for your enterprise operations.
In this webcast we demonstrate:
- How to easily link critical real time date to your corporate systems
- How to consolidate your detailed performance data across your facilities
- How to further leverage your existing performance dashboard through direct integration
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Go From Good to Great with Activplant
Featuring Mike Comello, Activplant Corporation, and Glenn Sawyer, Activplant Corporation
Even in the face of global competition, consolidation, seasonal fluctuations, rapid shifts in consumer tastes, and regulatory changes, today's manufacturers are expected to deliver more. Intense competition means that customers can make greater demands for speedy production at competitive prices.
In this webcast we will demonstrate:
- Real-time Production OEE values
- Real-time Trending & Throughput Analytics
- Automatic identification of your chronic constraints
- Get real-time and trended feedback
- Data that accelerates your Six Sigma & Lean Initiatives
- Detailed reporting to satisfy your regulatory requirements
- Accelerate your Green initiative by tying utilities consumption (WAGES) to actual production
- Generate Production Reports in real time right to your BlackBerry or PDA
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Capital Ideas for the Times
Featuring Wayne Filichowski, AVS Systems, and Mathew Rynard, Activplant Corporation
Wayne Filichowski of AVS Systems will examine five capital ideas that are essential for optimizing manufacturing performance; Pull working capital out of your operations, Raise fixed asset turnover rates, Go Green, Optimize your total cost of quality and fully utilize your human capital. Integrated with each of these five key topics are specific examples of how information technology can be used to first leverage and then sustain improved operational results. Mathew Rynard, Chief Technology Officer at Activplant will discuss easy-to-use, standard interfaces and tools from Activplant that world class manufacturers are leveraging to automate business processes, enable corporate portals and dashboards, and drive enterprise systems such as MES and ERP with information directly from the shop floor. Utilizing these tools manufacturers have access to detailed process data as well as contextualized, aggregated, and time-based metrics that can be utilized throughout their supply chain.
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Capital Ideas for the Times
Manufacturers must free working capital and re-commission fixed assets to enhance competitiveness and position their balance sheets to support an economic upturn.
This paper was written for business leaders now faced with the extremely difficult operating challenges thrust at them by today’s economy. The bombardment of economic news we receive each day requires little more to be said about the severity of the 2009 economic “Tsunami.” This global economic downturn has senior managers re-evaluating operational strategies from “A” to “Z.” So, the intended audience for this paper is those executives and managers in manufacturing businesses that are looking for additional preemptive moves in the face of this storm. We hope our “Capital Ideas” are of solid assistance.
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Cost Reduction 101
Featuring Simon Jacobson, AMR, Mathew Rynard, Activplant Corporation, and Wayne Luxford, Coca-Cola Bottler
Simon Jacobson, Research Director AMR Research, will highlight the importance of pushing lean concepts through your value chain, focusing on your manufacturing operations. Jacobson will highlight which companies are being successful in today’s manufacturing environment and how they are lucratively achieving this. Matt Rynard, Chief Technology Officer will explore how a manufacturing organization can effectively contribute to the timely decisions that are affecting manufacturers today. Activplant plays a key role in understanding your manufacturing operations, as a driver of lean initiatives, and as an input into your work process decisions. Three simple steps provide a framework to meet the challenge of "more with less"; Collect, Analyze, Enable. Wayne Luxford, Continuous Improvement Manager of a Coca-Cola Bottling company will discuss how they are reducing waste , increasing productivity and how they leveraged Activplant’s Throughput Analyzer to effectively achieve these goals
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Manufacturing Success
It's Time for Less Data
This white paper will show that a disciplined and minimized approach to collecting and analyzing unbiased, real-time data is the surest way for manufacturers to succeed in these challenging times.
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Transform Your Lean Initiatives
Featuring Simon Jacobson, AMR and Mathew Rynard, Activplant Corporation
Simon Jacobson, Senior Research Analyst at AMR Research, discusses why aligning the organization from top to bottom is a principle tenet of lean manufacturing and a fundamental requirement for any organization. Mathew Rynard, Chief Technology Officer at Activplant, discusses the importance of role based reporting across the organization, and how this can be integrated into your lean efforts. Mathew also discusses the evolution of the latest version of Throughput Analyzer, and discusses the benefits our world class manufacturing customers are seeing.
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Solving the Downtime Dilemma
5 Reasons to Look Beyond Your Top 10 Downtime List
This white paper challenges the viewpoint that attacking downtime problems is the most efficient path to improved productivity.
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The OEE Deficit
Why It Can't Deliver the Results You Require
This white paper describes an evolution in thinking: the most efficient way to increase productivity is to focus on product flow through process. This paper explains through several customer case studies how a new performance metric called Throughput Capability goes much deeper in defining the impact that each resource has on the overall performance of a given manufacturing value stream.
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Case Study: New Process Gear
Automotive Leader Chooses Activplant's Throughput Analyzer to Set Productivity Into High Gear
New Process Gear, a division of Magna Powertrain and Magna International, Inc., runs a two-million square foot plant that engineers, manufactures and assembles transfer cases for full-size SUVs and trucks. NPG boasts an impressive, top-tier customer list. Recently, NPG – like many discrete manufacturers – found itself under pressure to reduce waste and control costs. Read how NPG, along with Activplant's Throughput Analyzer, delivered an average 25% improvement along with dramatically reduced outsourcing and overtime costs.
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