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Plant personnel understand the value of having a common language. That language in today’s world includes data in addition to procedures and policies. If only at an intuitive level, the plant team understands how important good data is and how crucial it is to the problem-solving equation. Formulating action plans based on relevant KPI’s and accurate data analysis virtually ensures success. Meetings become more productive and the conversation more objective and fruitful as time is spent creating solutions, not arguing over the accuracy of the information. An organizational culture like this is easily initiated, readily adopted, and sustained over time through the deployment of ProdoTrak™. In a short period of time, plant personnel no longer see the system as outside of their sphere of influence, rather, they see it as “Our System. Our Language. Our Voice.”

With all parts of the organization aligned and working harmoniously toward common goals, meaningful improvements can be made, and significant rewards realized. Customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, company profitability, and plant capacity all improve.

ProdoTrak™ is designed to use a phased approach to customize, implement, and adapt to any organization that is willing to strive for improvement. The primary components in the phases include culture change preparation, receiving of key plant process flows, and cooperative data modeling that ensures all pertinent issues are captured. Accurate data is required to flow into the system to enable the identification of key issues during the analysis. This is not a complex or new way to look at downtime. What makes it effective, though, is that is it complete. Most attempts to collect downtime information are usually too specific and only focus on one area or piece of equipment. Others expand the scope too broadly to provide useful/actionable data. ProdoTrak™ data is cross-checked upon entry and revalidated over the first 30-90 days so that a clear picture rapidly emerges and is gradually refined. With steady daily and weekly progress, the data becomes trustworthy and actionable.

ProdoTrak™ is a disruptive technology that is a new way of operating on the data that calculates plant efficiencies. Utilizing a World Class Manufacturing (WCM) framework, the system can fit into almost any operation with an operations/management structure that supports continuous improvement as its mission. Quality, safety, employee morale, management reliance, and proper use of the information are all key components that are necessary to support any Continuous Improvement Process (CIP). The phased approach to incorporating this technology is the key to its continued success. Not solely based on software or hardware, and not relying singularly on change management, the blend of both creates much needed leverage. Leverage that allows for time to be spent solving the problems preventing greater throughput rather than merely talking about them. In short, it allows you to repeatedly and consistently “Find Herbie” (bottlenecks) faster. (Reference form “The Goal” by Eliyahu M. Goldratt).

Bottlenecks drain the life’s blood of plant operations. High performing operations identify and resolve bottlenecks quickly and efficiently, day in and day out. It’s no longer “Did we have a good day or a bad day?” Rather, “Did we have a good day or a great day?”

ProdoTrak™ takes into consideration all aspects of the business – plant, operations, management, and data – simultaneously. All team members align and can rely on a system where trusted data is used throughout the plant. That’s how and why it works!