CDC Factory

CDC Factory Product Modules

Schedule – Finite Production Scheduling in real-time 

Enable production schedules to be quickly updated to match the speed of the business either weekly, daily, or hourly – balancing changing demand with available material, labor and equipment capacity. Reduce inventory investments and increase perfect order performance.

Performance – Real-Time Performance Management 

Identify all manufacturing losses, measure OEE, monitor product costing in real-time and gauge crew performance. Enable the factory floor to take action and make adjustments in real-time. Harness touch screen technology to provide operations and quality personnel with immediate performance information in the appropriate format.

Quality – Quality Control 

Enable paperless compliance and tracking of all Quality Control processes throughout the factory floor. Automate the collection of checks related to product quality. Reduce give-away through SPC control. Provide immediate feedback on all QC threshold exceptions and ensure proper QC conformance as part of the standard routine for factory workers.

Improve – Continuous Improvement 

Provide complete transparency of improvement initiatives throughout the factory and wider enterprise. Close the loop between potential and actual improvements by measuring the potential scale of opportunity in financial terms. Manage improvement campaigns that directly map to a proven Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) process.

Analytics – Business Analytics 

Quickly and easily analyze spot performance and trends based on shifts, crews, individuals, materials, equipment, production lines, products, packaging and more. Identify improvement opportunities in production performance, product innovation, food safety and bottlenecks in the factory supply chain. Analyze product cost relative to targets in support of overall cost and profit analysis.

Maintenance – Agile Maintenance Response 

Use a real-time maintenance control function that is fully integrated with the shop floor team's working day to improve maintenance response times and asset utilization. Integrate real-time work order generation with common EAM systems.

Asset – Enterprise Asset Management 

Improve maintenance work planning, lower total cost of asset ownership, reduce maintenance inventory, improve asset service delivery and drive pro-active maintenance strategies.

Safety – Safety 

Improve conformance to regulatory safety requirements while reducing the administration burden across the factory by automating HACCP, work permits and other safety procedures used across the factory floor. Provide real-time assurance that your site is operating under safe working practices and well-protected from accidents or hazards.

Integrate – Enterprise Integration 

Unite day to day real-time factory floor performance with corporate financial information (from the ERP system) to provide transparency at an enterprise level. Use standard 'Input' and 'Output' templates to integrate with ERP and plant automation systems. ERP agnostic, certified integration models include SAP & Ross Enterprise.