FactoryTalk Metrics

FactoryTalk Metrics allows manufacturers of all types and sizes to boost production, cut costs, and increase quality using existing equipment and labor more efficiently. All this can be achieved through accurate reporting of real plant-floor activity. FactoryTalk Metrics examines plant-floor equipment and provides precise, timely, granular, and specific information both on current machine performance as well as historical details (regarding work cell/line/area/site) for long-term analysis. Based on this data one can understand the real causes of inefficiency, waste, and lost capacity. Accordingly, it empowers plant personnel to make well-versed decisions around optimizing assets within a production facility or across a manufacturing enterprise. FactoryTalk Metrics reports on OEE i.e. Overall Equipment Effectiveness. However it is more than just an OEE reporting tool since OEE can merely tell us how a machine is performing over time; it cannot tell us why the machine is performing at that level. Moreover, FactoryTalk Metrics can collect and report on any machine events and their reasons which can be detected in the control system. Also, FactoryTalk Metrics can give the detail essential to both understand downtime causes and to help us prioritize the improvements needed to raise efficiency.

FactoryTalk Metrics Features