CableMES

Thanks to real-time production information and automatic data capture capabilities, CableMES can quickly highlight operational anomalies using alarming systems that empower the operator to take immediate action when resolving issues. For example, if a machine is running below its target production speed, the system instantly alerts the operator. The captured data also helps management to analyze trends across product groups, process types, shift formations and production shift patterns. This enables process improvement while boosting overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).

CableMES tracks stock movement and availability through barcodes, allowing “at a glance” visibility. It also confirms accurate stock management by location or item while enabling complete traceability of raw materials.

The CableMES system is flexible enough to allow last-minute adjustments to lengths and adages, and enables planners to plan common items in a single manufacturing batch. CableMES also provides planners with the tools, information and control they need to accurately plan. Operators can then schedule planned jobs, using easy-to-interpret interactive drag-and-drop scheduling boards.

CableMES injects quality control across the entire product manufacturing life cycle, from planning to analysis of quality losses to traceability and nonconformance management, and to data recording.

CableMES helps businesses minimize errors by preventing the use of improper raw materials. Mistakes are immediately highlighted and made visible to both operators and management. Once the system identifies an error, CableMES prevents the malfunctioning reel or drum from progressing any further and from tainting downstream production processes.

Each aspect of the wire and cable manufacturing process must meet specific requirements (like day-to-day sequencing of production orders or long-term analysis) to maintain overall OEE.  

CableMES uses a powerful historian tool provided by AVEVA™, which collects all wire and cable manufacturing process data produced (even down to the granularity level of exact cable lengths). Users can correlate this data to process and quality alarms, thereby identifying trends and providing long-term benchmarks.

The CableMES historian tool combination offers a wealth of reporting features that provide management with a comprehensive strategic view of the business.