Articles
- An Overview of the IPAV System
- Deriving a Production Line State from Machine States
- Improving Efficiency by Managing Constraints
- Productive Downtime meets Total Productive Maintenance
- Bringing together TPM, OEE, Lean and 6 Sigma
- MES and the IPAV System
- Buzzwords! The Internet of Things, The Cloud
- Smart Manufacturing. The Factory of The Future
In our processing we define Machine States and then derive the Line State by inspecting the current Machine States
Generally this applies to machines used in a high-speed coupled-manufacturing environment and we focus primarily on beer and beverage production-lines. However, this technique is not limited to that environment but is limited to coupled manufacturing lines.
Individual Machine States may transition through Sleep, Startup, Running, Holding, Build-back and Starving, according to conditions in the immediate vicinity of the machine.
Transitions from one State to another occur as the result of changing conditions either at a Machine or within its upstream or downstream accumulators.
Machine State Transitions
The Line State is derived by inspecting all Machine States at once and as a whole. These states transition through the following.
Line State Transitions