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APPLICATIONS & INITIATIVES
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IMPROVE THE WAY YOU MANAGE DOWNTIMES IN YOUR MILL<\/h1>
Downtimes are one of the key performance indicators of the operational efficiency of your mill. PMP SOLUTIONS makes managing them easier, contributing to fewer of them.<\/div><\/div>
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A better way to document downtimes<\/h2>
Keeping a thorough record of the downtimes in your mill is essential because it is a window into the health and efficiency of your operations. Machine downtime reports often lack in detail and are useless when trying to analyze long-term trends. PMP TeamMate provides a complete set of tools to help you catalog downtimes and their causes, and efficiently analyze them in depth. 

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PMP TeamMate differentiates itself from other downtime logging and reporting tools through its wood transformation process-specific approach that demands very little effort from operators. <\/div><\/div><\/div>Discover PMP TeamMate<\/a><\/div><\/section>\n\n
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A process-centric approach to downtime documentation is the best approach<\/h2>

Based on the theory of constraints, as long as constraining equipment on your line output at peak capacity and efficiency, any interruption up and \/ or down the line does not have that much impact on your entire process. Only when this equipment is down is there an interruption in production and an impact on its result.<\/p>\n

In the wood transformation industry, more specifically, constraints can be different according to the type of production. For example, in the case of a 2\"×3\" production on the planer line, the constraint is usually the stacker. On the other hand, in the case of a 2\"×8\" production, the constraint is the planer itself.<\/p>\n

With PMP SOLUTIONS downtime tools, there's no need to monitor every piece of equipment on the line. Our process-centric approach allows you to focus on the contraints, without losing any information about the equipment responsible for the downtime, which reduces documentation efforts and makes analysis that much easier.<\/p>\n

By comparing the process-centric downtime information with your production information, you can easily prioritize preventive maintenance and optimize its impacts on your mill—with the added bonus that you can perform this analysis all inside PMP TeamMate.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Overall equipment effectiveness\u2014the little-known powerful KPI<\/h2>

Because overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) informs you about the overall health of your manufacturing process, so your output, including the lumber recovery factor and PMP TeamMate uses it to communicate information. It takes into account every possible loss (time, speed, matter) and compares it to the maximum attainable potential of the manufacturing process, which is constant.<\/p>\n

OEE = Availability × Performance × Quality<\/strong><\/p>\n

OEE considers three factors: the availability and performance of your equipment, and the quality of its output.<\/p>\n