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Effeciency Improvement Tool

Sidel's Efficiency Improvement Tool (EIT®) is a powerful software solution with built-in intelligence and operational insight for measuring, analyzing, improving and decision-making.

By monitoring production lines, from plant floor to business systems, and up to the Cloud, EIT® helps you meet your production daily challenges and bring productivity to higher levels from Operations to Maintenance and Engineering to Management. 

The system is a combination of web-based applications with Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and Manufacturing Information System (MIS) functionalities.

Operational benefits

  • Discovery of true efficiency loss sources
  • Detection of out-of-spec values.
  • Reduction of waste & energy costs.
  • Increase of line’s uptime and output.
  • Supporting tool for commissioning.
  • Close monitoring of vendors’ guarantees.
  • Leverage of best practices.
EIT® Architecture
Compatible, compliant, connected

EIT® is a Web-based interface 3-Tier client/server architecture developed with state-of-the-art graphics and aligned to the industry standards and guidelines, such as DIN, ISA, AFNOR…

Implementation

  • On-premises
  • Cloud-based
Data acquisition
  • PLC-based logic (detection of the machine stop primary cause)
  • Pack-ML
  • Weihenstephan
  • Ethernet network 

Connectivity

  • ERP and MES systems, 3-party applications…
  • API, XML, Web services, text files…
Database
  • MS-SQL
  • VMware supported 

User Interface

  • Simple, concise, intuitive
  • Web widget concept
  • Windows security & login

Reporting

  • Built-in dashboards, screens and reports
  • Interactive graphics
  • Integrated data filters
  • Drill-down capability
 
Core modules
Data collection, user interface, system configuration

EIT® Writer

Developed for handling thousands of tags, EIT® Writer is the core engine of the whole system, ensuring data collection reliability and accuracy.

  • 24/7 automated data acquisition
  • PLC-based logic, Weihenstephan or Pack-ML standards
  • Built-in monitoring of data acquisition status
  • Robustness and disaster recovery
EIT ® Reader

Based on visual management to ensure positive user experiences, EIT ® Redader is the system user interface to monitor production and measure performance.

  • Production status vs targets
  • Root Cause Analysis identifying efficiency loss sources
  • Details on unplanned and planned downtime
  • Key Performance Indicators
EIT ® Manager

Strategic tool for taking ownership of the system and lowering TCO, EIT ® Manager is the database and system configuration tool. Its purpose is to ensure consistency, flexibility, granularity and standardization.

  • Machine references and parameters
  • Alarms, formats, speeds, SKUs, etc.
  • Formula editor
Awareness modules

EIT® Display System

Effectively and quickly assess performance and notice production issues: EIT® Display System graphically shows the line status and performance in an outstanding 3D format on a big LCD screen on the line.

  • Machine status displayed in a color code
  • Visual follow up of machine and line KPIs
  • Flexibility for changing data to display

EIT® Re-View

Watch what lead to and how a machine stop was addressed: EIT® Re-View helps you to solve issues.

  • Video recording with a Power over Ethernet camera
  • Mobile camera
  • Visualization of actions done during a stop
  • Better understanding of events leading to long MTTR duration

EIT® Quality Control

Quickly detect deviations & out-of-specs: EIT® Quality Control records flow level and analog values, and determines related trends.

  • Temperature, CO², pressure, LPCA, caustic acid…
  • Max, Min, Average, Variation, Set Point
  • Correlation of quality issues with production events

EIT® Track & Trace

Monitor Production Orders: EIT® Track & Trace enables you to narrow the focus on what is being produced and to validate it.

  • Process Order management: import of the production schedule & validation of the PO in key zones
  • Production Execution: confirmation of the line startup & emptying, optimization of the changeover
  • Material & Waste Management: request, validation of delivery
  • Product Identification: coder / printer, lot number, EAN, BBE dates, bar code scanning
  • Production Analysis: display of the PO status and performance
  • Interface with ERP systems

 

 

EIT® AQ-Clock

Measurement of accumulation: EIT® AQ-Clock puts your operator in the driving seat!

§Real-time accumulation between and among machines
§Available time for restarting a machine before impacting the whole line
§Key contributor for doing preventive maintenance
§Performance enabler
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Responsiveness
modules

EIT® Alert Manager

Improve awareness and responsiveness: EIT® Alert Manager is an alert-trigger module set for informing key people of production issues or out-of-specs.

  • E-mail, Portable device
  • Multi-condition capability
  • Based on a broad set of data, such as downtime, rejects, deviations, etc.
 
EIT® Audio

Optimize operator’s next best move and increase effectiveness: EIT® Audio automatically sends key voice synthesis messages to operators.

  • Runs with Smartphone, PC, Tablet
  • WiFi, UHF, Bluetooth
  • Messages based on any EIT data (unplanned downtime, ongoing issues, out-of-specs, upcoming changeover, etc.)
  • Available in different language
Effectiveness modules

EIT® Loss Reduction

Effectively reduce the cost of losses: EIT® Loss Reduction generates detailed reports on the reject counts and related root causes.

  • Reporting at multiple levels: valve, machine, device, line, plant
  • Extensive details, such as rejects due to overfill, underfill, 1st minute run, etc.
  • Processed, rejected, non-reworkable counts 

ECO EIT®

To support sustainability initiatives, discover energy saving potentials and reduce costs: ECO EIT® measures energy & utility consumption.

  • Electricity, water, CO², acid caustic, steam, etc.)
  • Cost per machine, conveying system, line, plant
  • Data trending report
  • Correlation with production events
 
EIT® Compare

Multi-plant reports for implementations on-premises. EIT® Compare is a great tool to get a quick overview of global performance.

  • Remote connection to multi-plant production data
  • Large scale comparison of equipment/lines/plants performances, KPIs and issues
  • Support benchmark and continuous improvement initiatives
EIT® Cloud

Data hosting: EIT® Cloud gives you an edge for accessing massive production data.

  • Worldwide Portal with drill down to the plant, line and machine levels
  • Accessible from mobile platforms
  • Secure data and manage disaster recovery
  • Reduce infrastructure costs and TCO
  • Large scale analysis only a few clicks away