Manufacturing Downtime and Changeover

Optimize employee performance for more efficient planned downtime

Leading manufacturers partner with PTC to reduce their changeover time and planned maintenance through digital and augmented work instructions. Our customers achieve:

Up to a

50%

DECREASE IN DOWNTIME

Up to a

70%

REDUCTION IN CHANGEOVER TIME

Up to a

30%

IMPROVEMENT IN TRAINING TIME

Up to a

50%

REDUCTION IN MEAN TIME TO REPAIR (MTTR)

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The power of optimizing your manufacturing downtime

Improve settle time between cycles with reduced changeover time and faster routine maintenance. Augmented reality reduces training times while improving information retention so your team can efficiently move through the process—while asset monitoring detects misalignment issues before they occur.

Lean Production

Asset Health Monitoring

Improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness

Lean Production

Implement SMED to begin changeover steps while machines are still running and streamline material workflows after change-up for faster start-up times.

Reduce materials costs

Asset Health Monitoring

Measure compliance throughout the process, ensuring that your machines and team deliver to your real-time performance KPIs and build toward total effective equipment performance (TEEP).

Maximize Utilization

Improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness

Explore how industrial IoT solutions can help your team reduce unplanned downtime while increasing your overall equipment effectiveness through real-time health monitoring and predictive maintenance.

Improve OEE

Improve changeover processes with PTC

GlobalFoundries

GlobalFoundries reduced their changeover time by using PTC’s augmented reality solutions to transform its training processes.

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Vestas

Wind energy pioneer Vestas improved first-time build rate to achieve better quality outcomes for complex products by using PTC’s solutions to make all work instructions available digitally as easy-to-digest visual directions.

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Reduce Your Manufacturing Downtime and Improve Changeover Time

Optimize employee performance for more efficient planned downtime

The power of optimizing your manufacturing downtime

Lean Production

Asset Health Monitoring

Improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness

Lean Production

Asset Health Monitoring

Improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness

Improve changeover processes with PTC

GlobalFoundries

Vestas

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