Remote deployment and self-installation

One of FitMech's clients is the Polish branch of an international concern from the automotive industry. The company's headquarters obliged all branches to measure work efficiency and identify areas for operational improvements using the TPM methodology and based on the OEE indicator.

The branch in Poland, striving to meet the corporate requirements, manually created reports based on information received from operators - it generated a lot of additional work and delivered imprecise data with a significant lag.

Seeing how difficult it is for the Operators to collect the data required by the Headquarters, and realizing how dangerous it can be to make decisions about the implementation of improvements based on the incorrect information, the Continuous Improvement Department of the Polish branch decided to improve the OEE reporting process.

In order to avoid collecting declarative (and quite often erroneous) data from the operators, it was necessary to eliminate them from participation in the reporting process and to automate the whole mechanism.

The Continuous Improvement Department relied on FitMech - the team independently installed sensors on five production stations and set up the service within three days.

The system started to automatically identify machine statuses, detect completed work cycles and calculate the OEE indicator on an ongoing basis.

Thanks to FitMech, the operators could continue their work, instead of completing the documentation at the end of the shift. Moreover, the Continuous Improvement Department has gained a reliable source of data. Now, the central office receives the required information without delays and without the need to compile many partial summaries into one report.