The attached demonstration includes some of the treasures which can be revealed by those who record their production data, and instructions for taking a self test-drive with Disco, a process mining tool of Fluxicon.
2. The Contents
A Quick overview of production management in Priority ERP
Demonstration of some process discovery deliverables
Instructions for performing a self-discovery of the production process
3. The Production Floor
Departments
Workers
Work Cells
Operations
Machines
Manual Work
8. Some Possible Deliverables
A process map of the executed production processes
Conformance Checking
► Deviations from routings
Performance Analysis
► Machines
► Operators
► Idle times
► Bottlenecks
Focused analysis of:
► Breakdowns
► Rework
► Rejected parts
Comparison of workers performance
9. The data Source
The production data exported from Priority
The mandatory data
10. The Data in Disco
The Production data are configured and imported to Disco for process discovery
11. Operations
Paths taken by work orders
The Actual Process Flow
Repeated Operation
Frequencies
Number of work orders
starting the process
Start point
End point
13. Revealing Deviations from Routing
For some work orders, the process starts and ends with different operations then defined in
the routing (circled in red)
Start point
End point
14. Locating the Slow Work Orders
The Performance filter is used to retrieve slow work orders by a selected duration
15. The Slow Process Flow
The mean waiting time
between operations
The mean duration of operations
16. Animation of the Slow Process
The actual process is replayed based on the production data
To view the animation press here.
Work orders starting the process
An Indication of a Bottle Neck
Operation TimeAn Indication of work loads
25. The Impact of a Breakdown on a Selected Part
The operation with the ellipse was reported as a breakdown
The red arrow points at a delay in the process (compared to the one indicated by the green
arrow)
With BreakdownWithout Breakdown
28. Downloading a Demo Project
Download and save a demo project with production data from here
29. Loading the Demo Project to Disco
1. Run Disco, and click on the Open File button
2. In the Windows explorer that opens, select the saved project file:
Discovery-of-a-Production-Process.dsc
30. The Project View in Disco
For each data set in the list on the left, look in the Notes for instructions.
31. More Helpful Links
Manufacturing Intelligence – the full presentation
A case study of production analysis at Samsung Electro-Mechanics
More Examples based on Priority ERP
hands-on tutorial for Disco (in Hebrew)
Fluxicon’s Blog
Fluxicon’s Academic Initiative
32. For further info please contact:
Dafna Levy
Email: dafnal@nool.co.il
Phone: +972 (0)54-6881739
Intelligent Process Management