Smart Target Rates

Configuring every product / SKU detail can be time-consuming, and you might not have all the information upfront. Whether it’s due to missing data, lack of a monitoring system, or simply an overlooked parameter affecting your rate, performance and therefore OEE metrics, we’ve got you covered. That’s why we developed Smart Target Rates.

What It Is

Smart Target Rate is a new feature that enhances performance accuracy by automatically calibrating target rates for all products and SKUs previously defaulted to 1 unit/hour. This ensures more precise and reliable production metrics.

You can also choose to enable a smart review of your target rates when performance consistently exceeds 130%, ensuring more accurate metrics and eliminating misleading performance percentages.

How Target Rates Are Calculated

Our platform uses an algorithm to automatically update the target rates of products on a production line. The update is triggered only when specific conditions are met, ensuring that the calculation is based on reliable and representative production runs.

Each Production Unit (PU) can configure three parameters that define when a target correction should happen:

    1. Production run minimum uptime (minutes) – the minimum running time required is 60 minutes.

    2. Production run minimum availability (%) – the minimum availability of 35% must be achieved.

    3. Production run minimum performance (%) – the minimum performance of 300% must be achieved.

    The algorithm works as follows:

    • It analyzes production metrics per run, per shift.

    • For a target rate update to be triggered, all three conditions must be met simultaneously.

    • If any one of the thresholds is not reached, no update occurs.

    Default values (configurable by PU under request):

    • Minimum uptime: 60 minutes

    • Minimum availability: 35%

    • Minimum performance: 300%

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  2. To trigger an update of product target rates on a line, a shift must have more than 60 minutes of uptime, greater than 35% availability, and over 300% performance.

 

Since the target rate impacts Performance and OEE metrics, Tile+ will temporarily show a dash and a “Calibrating SKU target rate” message while adjusting the data. Don’t worry—your accurate metrics will appear once calibration is completed, that may take about 60 minutes, with no data loss.

Meanwhile, Rate and Speed tiles will continue displaying real-time data, only the target rate will be adjusting.

The OEE graph will be updated as well letting you know that it will be calibrating the SKU metrics as well.

 

🚀 The Benefits

By eliminating misleading metrics caused by default or overly conservative targets, you can focus on continuous improvement and make data-driven decisions that enhance your production performance.

Smart Target Rate is the first step in the Performance Loss feature which lets you see and explain when a product is running below its target directly on the Tile+ timeline.