Good planning is essential to obtain optimum utilization of your large investment in test equipment. Errors in equipment configurations and setup can cause expensive interruptions to production. Inaccurate data can lead to inefficient plans and slow budgeting processes. The task of planning is challenged by several issues:
Dynamic Inventory: With the numerous changes to equipment setups occurring daily, it is difficult to get accurate data upon which to base planning decisions. Managing spare parts and maintenance cycles is difficult. Delays in obtaining data in a useful format further complicate this challenge.
Complicated Configurations: The planning process is made more difficult by the wide variety of equipment types, suppliers, hardware and software revision levels, and the lack of standardization. Without good data, the planner has an impossible task to create accurate plans.
Salland's Cell Configuration Tracking system (CCT) provides a comprehensive solution for optimizing the utilization of you equipment inventory. It includes a robust, on-line data acquisition subsystem that monitors all equipment in near-real time. Salland has created a XML data format that is capable of modeling any type of equipment found on the test floor in a common, reliable manner.
Data is collected in a configuration DBMS that supports user friendly tools designed specifically for planners. Additional analytic tools enable efficiency monitoring as well as reliability and repeatability studies to be performed at the test cell level. Read more>