Excerpt: The Printed Circuit Assembler's Guide to… Smart Data, Chapter 3
Chapter 3: Putting Data to Work in the Factory to Improve Business There are many different and valid perspectives on the performance of a factory. For instance, the fact that the factory is on shutdown may be significant to a planner who is concerned with overall factory capacity. However, the shutdown is less significant to the production manager, who simply wants to know if the machines will run efficiently when they are scheduled to run. With a mix of different customers, products, factories, lines, and machines, hundreds of different KPIs may need to be considered. Some of these measurem...