Manufacturing Improvement – Reporting

Improvement Projects and Manufacturing Control rely on good data to track progress. A straightforward way to get data from a Manufacturing System is with a data export. For example, the actual run times for an operation can be exported to excel in a few minutes. Once exported you can quickly run some basic statistical tests in Excel or Minitab to confirm the data is normally distributed around the mean, which includes detecting data outliers that could adversely impact decisions made from those results.

Further, for manufacturing systems that run off a SQL database, such as MISys Manufacturing, it is relatively straight forward to add reports and dashboards using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). These reports look professional and can be run real time.

Progress reporting requires good data. Many manufacturing systems can provide the data in various ways without needing built in dashboards and reporting interfaces. It can be done as simply as using a data export to excel, or with a more sophisticated setup using SSRS.

For information on how to do this with MISys, reach out to us here at Central Nervous Systems.

Matt.