Digital Production | L-mobile reporting

Overall equipment effectiveness in production always well in hand

Monitor your processes with L-mobile reporting for a continuous improvement process

Why do manufacturing companies need a reporting tool? What advantages does this provide for everyday production and which key figures play an important role? Industrial companies always have different challenges and work practices in their production processes.. However, the central objective of production is always the same: increase efficiency, reduce resource consumption, and enable transparent data visualization across the entire manufacturing process.

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) forms the basis for process optimization on your journey to a transparent factory. The OEE figure for evaluating a machine or system comprises the following three factors:

Availability factor

Performance factor

Quality factor

Based on these evaluation criteria, the OEE ratio defines the percentage at which a machine or system produces quality products at a given speed and identifies possible production losses.

To be able to assess efficiency in production to this extent, you first need a stable database that maps the ACTUAL status of the production processes. This database forms the foundation of your production reporting, known as the data warehouse. For this reason, it is important to consider in advance exactly which factors are to be evaluated and which data contribute to this measured value or KPI (key performance indicator).

A complete overview of setup times and performance can be easily obtained based on the right KPIs with just a few clicks

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In order to identify and exploit opportunities and risks, as well as optimization potential in production, it is necessary to define specific key figures based on which actions can be taken to increase efficiency.

What is the current production performance? How are warehouse stock and contribution margins developing? Are predefined times adhered to? These and other questions can be answered with an intelligent data analysis.

In addition to basic KPIs for evaluating efficiency in manufacturing, such as analysis of production performance and personnel deployment planning, many other KPIs, such as production volume for more effective production planning and control, but also process times, malfunctions, and failures help make it possible to identify potential areas for optimization.

Production performance
Production performance is assessed based on products produced without defects.
Personnel deployment
Production personnel are a key area for potential optimization when it comes to increasing production output in the manufacturing process.
Machine or plant utilization
Machine or plant utilization describes the percentage of machine running time in the total capacity.
Throughput times
Throughput time is the time difference between the start and the end of a production process. The throughput time includes the complete manufacturing process including transport and storage of the products and starts with the setup of the machines.
Warehouse stock
Warehouse stock is the inventory of goods in a warehouse.
Production losses
The verifiable lost profit of a company caused by errors in the production process is called production loss.
Scrap rate
Scrap rate indicates the proportion of produced goods in total production that are rejected due to poor quality.
Cycle time
The cycle time or cycle rate describes the average time within the production process in which a product quantity is issued by a production system.
On-time delivery
On-time delivery describes adherence to an agreed deadline. This key figure analyzes whether the processing of an incoming order was completed on time.
Production volume
Production volume is the amount of production output in a given period.

Your journey to a transparent factory: by bundling KPIs in your individual production reporting dashboard

L-mobile reporting provides you the information basis to optimize processes, improve product quality, and reduce costs by means of continuous data flow. The KPIs defined by you from the various business processes are used by the evaluation tool for production to analyze the production processes. Our experts select the appropriate data sources for this purpose, such as the company’s own ERP system, the L-mobile CRM, or the L-mobile production data collection/machine data collection as well as relevant data analyses. In order to transfer this defined data flow into the data warehouse, the data is first extracted. After successful upload to the data warehouse, MES key figures can now be calculated and displayed in well-structured dashboards via a cloud-based IoT platform.

The detailed and transparent real-time processing of the data then provides the basis for decisions aimed at improving production processes and increasing process reliability. This means you can assess prepared key figures at a glance using L-mobile’s production reporting. This data visualization will assist you in analyzing and evaluating your processes and provide you with information about underlying reasons for problems, optimization potentials, but also where things are going well.

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L-mobile uses the Microsoft cloud solution for the transparent production data visualization of the data flow. The BI interface adapts flexibly to your individual needs and can be used for visualization of the data flow both cloud-based and on-premise. However, Microsoft Power BI is only one of many cloud solutions. For the bundling and analysis of data flow and production data visualization, L-mobile production reporting is completely platform independent and can be combined with any BI tool.

Would you like to experience our BI reporting live? Then take a look at our events calendar. You will find various online events on the topic of reporting in production, service, or warehouse. Our experts will give you a live demonstration on how to make the most of L-mobile reporting to improve the efficiency of your processes.

Personalized evaluation dashboards, easy-to-read data visualizations & real-time mapping of your production processes

L-mobile reporting is your custom solution for manufacturing

L-mobile’s production reporting visualizes your data warehouse and gives you an comprehensive overview of all production processes by means of production data visualization, permitting you to perform a step-by-step, increasingly in-depth process analysis.

In addition to analyzing the goods and scrap quantity in the annual review, the analysis and evaluation tool L-mobile reporting also takes into account production feedback from operating and machine statuses and determines malfunctions and failures in real time. You can also use the key figures monitoring function in production reporting as an early warning system. The production data visualization function shows you in real time the performance status of the individual areas at your production facility by means of color codes.

L-mobile’s production reporting collects all production feedback and then creates an easy-to-read data visualization of the whole production area for the entire data flow. This production data visualization is the perfect starting point for your transparent production. The monitoring and production feedback take into account operating information and production KPIs and also create a data visualization for the KPIs with direct plant reference.

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Function overview

Easy-to-read dashboards with dynamic views

Extensive filtering options

Central management of data sources and user roles

Individual and free configuration of performance dashboards

Export of data and graphics as CSV file possible at any time

Automatic visualization when maximum/threshold values are exceeded

KPI dashboard as operational as well as strategic information system

Direct link to production data collection with integration of real-time production data

Direct interface to your ERP system

BI tools as web-based software foundation

Comprehensive support for Microsoft Power BI as a Microsoft Gold Partner

The L-mobile productivity cockpit

To maintain an overview of the individual work stations at all times, the L-mobile productivity cockpit provides you with an easy-to-read display of all production processes at one or more central locations.

Every report made via L-mobile production data collection is directly visible in the productivity cockpits, making it available to the various stakeholders in real time. In addition to collecting and visualization of production data through L-mobile production data collection, resource planning and other information on the process workflow, such as process and production times, quantities including scrap quantities, malfunctions and failures as well as the order status can be clearly displayed in the productivity cockpit.

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L-mobile machine monitoring system

The machine monitoring system is the central entry point for accessing technical information about the machine. Select the one you want to take a closer look at from the list of available machines.

Productivity potential is often wasted within the production process. The machine data collection system from L-mobile will make a significant contribution to increasing your productivity. The core function of the machine data collection is the active linking of the manufacturing order to the physical machine status of a production resource. By continually and accurately collecting your machine-related data, machine data collection facilitates the optimization of your production processes and the effective utilization of your machines.

The information collected as part of the machine data collection can be visually displayed in the L-mobile machine monitoring system. You will receive a graphical data visualization of your production in a concise 2D floor plan as well as a direct connection of KPIs in the production environment. You also get an overview of maintenance work on the individual machines, can display the machine utilization and their run time, and check whether there is an acute material requirement on machines and work stations. Based on machine data collection over several months or years, machine malfunctions can be visualized in advance and taken into account in production planning for an accelerated response time.

Please feel free to contact our experts and learn more about how L-mobile reporting can be used in your production.

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Acquisition and visualization of business information

Production data/resource planning
Throughput and production times
Production and scrap quantity
Status of order, shipping/returns
Production losses including cause
Statuses
Run times
Malfunctions

Acquisition and visualization of production KPIs

Performance analysis of the production process based on KPIs (such as OEE)
Monitoring of planned production specifications
Monitoring the quality of products (right first time)
Possible to evaluate the efficiency of the production process
Monitoring of production costs

Visualization of KPIs with direct plant reference

Visualization of production data in a simple 2D shop floor layout
Direct linking of KPIs in the production environment
Visualize maintenance work on machines
Visualize machine malfunctions in advance
Check material requirements at machines and work stations
Machine data/machine capacity & run time

L-mobile production simply integrated with your ERP

Our digital production software solution provides standard interfaces for all popular ERP systems.