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How does TrakSYS™ help me with Uptime/Downtime Tracking?

Many manufacturers see the value of tracking downtime and their productive time. They ask operators to time downtime events with stopwatches and record them along with their durations on a paper log. Then, perhaps, the events are entered into a database and reviewed the next day or the next week. The challenge is that many factories have hundreds of short-stop downtimes that are nearly impossible to track manually. The accumulation of these short-stop downtimes often amounts to a much larger source of efficiency loss, which should not be overlooked.

TrakSYS™ manufacturing real-time performance management software allows you to leverage your existing automation infrastructure to capture accurate, real-time downtime or uptime event information that is critical to a successful continuous improvement without having to modify the deployed automation and IT assets.

The TrakSYS™ LOGICTrak handles communication with existing automation systems to determine what and when events are occurring, records the events for reporting, and facilitates interaction with the operator for additional input, if desired. TrakSYS™ determines and prioritizes the root causes for downtime events, while it simultaneously keeps track of the consequential events without overstating your actual downtime. The intelligent data capturing capabilities of TrakSYS™ also allow you to capture other relevant information (e.g., product, run, lot, speed, size, etc.) at the instances the downtime events start and end that will provide additional context for analysis and reporting. This is extremely helpful in troubleshooting and interpreting your downtime events.