Facility Performance Optimization: The Next Step for Your Facility's Road to Efficiency
Managing the equipment and keeping production running at a manufacturing facility is a hard job. Dozens upon dozens of large, critical pieces of equipment in various locations, all with varied energy and performance requirements. Currently, monitoring the health of those systems may require a discrete, individualized solution at the machine itself. More often than not, however, the health of equipment depends on the knowledge of the floor maintenance staff to recognize when something “doesn’t sound right,” or a machine is running “too warm,” or some other heuristic developed over a long period of time based on experience with the manufacturing line.
Facility Performance Optimization: the Next Step for Your Facility’s Road to Efficiency
Managing the equipment and keeping production running at a manufacturing facility is a hard job. Dozens upon dozens of large, critical pieces of equipment in various locations, all with varied energy and performance requirements. Currently, monitoring the health of those systems may require a discrete, individualized solution at the machine itself. More often than not, however, the health of equipment depends on the knowledge of the floor maintenance staff to recognize when something “doesn’t sound right,” or a machine is running “too warm,” or some other heuristic developed over a long period of time based on experience with the manufacturing line.
Imagine if, instead, you could have the same insight, warnings, and tools to monitor your facility that without requiring disparate monitoring systems? What if you could have a centralized system, similar to the dashboard you use today in your car, to get feedback on the state and health of the equipment in your industrial facility?
A Dashboard to Optimize the Performance of Your Facility
When you buy a car, you’ve come to expect that as you drive it will provide updates on its condition. While driving down the highway and a nail punctures your tire, a warning light alerts you that your tire pressure is low.
When your vehicle needs maintenance, it has sensors that alert you to the problem. Giving you the necessary information to avoid catastrophe. This system identifies the problem for you and sends a clear, direct message catered to the recipient. To the driver it says, “check your engine” to the mechanic it says, “bad oxygen sensor.”
Your car’s dashboard provides you with all of the information that lets you make an informed decision while driving down the road. Why doesn’t your facility do the same? At Synapse, we think it should.
Cutting Cost, One System at a Time
Your facility is built of hundreds — if not, thousands — of individual moving parts.
Many of these have their own monitoring systems, they tell you about heat and pressure, some give you information about your energy usage, but they fail to give you the complete picture of how your entire facility is working.
When we put the data from all of these individual systems together into a single platform it can be monitored, mapped and modeled by SimplySnap, to give you real-time updates on the state of each piece of equipment and the overall health of each critical component of your production equipment.
Without this crucial information about your facility, you’re consuming energy in the dark. Making real adaptations isn’t just about turning off lights or machines when you aren’t using them.
SimplySnap gives you the information and analysis to adapt your production schedule and equipment usage to maximize the power you are using, building efficiency deeper into your organization’s process.
Go Beyond an Alert: Reducing Downtime Through Predictive Maintenance
SimplySnap is more than your facility’s car dashboard. It’s the passenger helping you navigate your Energy Management, and Equipment Uptime journey. It tells you how you’re driving and informs you of your route when you ask for directions.
SimplySnap doesn’t just show you how much energy you have used over the past month. The utility company does that with their monthly power bill. SimplySnap helps you understand your energy usage while also giving you the details about your equipment’s health.
Data from sensors in key pieces of equipment and areas of your facility are constantly collected in the SimplySnap interface to give you the data you need to make informed decisions and improve the performance of your facility.
Facility Performance Optimization (FPO) That Works for You
Since optimizing the performance of your facility is something you do on a daily basis, why not supercharge the information you use to make those decisions? Your car tells you when it needs an oil change, now your industrial equipment can too.
Learn more about SimplySnap and how it can help manufacturing customers improve their operations, lower their expenses, and increase profitability.
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