Every step of every operation in your facility generates data, but the numbers are meaningless if you don't know how to analyze and manage them. MAVERICK helps achieve seamless integration of all your data in order to improve your operations effectiveness, productivity and overall performance. With a vendor-independent approach, we focus on finding and developing business intelligence solutions for your unique plant, incorporating best practices from our practical automation experience in your industry. In the end, we help you get the right information to the right people so they can take the right actions for operations management.
Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
MAVERICK works with clients to define metrics that indicate progress in reaching business objectives. A team with experience in your industry will help you gather and monitor plant-floor data from historians. This information allows you to measure your performance, gauge overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and determine which aspects of your operations need improvement. MAVERICK also helps build IT business intelligence as part of customer resource management (CRM) and Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) implementation projects.
Role-Based Portals
MAVERICK has extensive experience setting up role-based portals and dashboards for displaying pertinent KPIs. We can help you determine the best way to display metrics that will improve productivity in each of the following functional areas:
- Operations and sales — Portals allow for monitoring product attributes and the sales pipeline.
- Maintenance — Viewing and managing asset availability and asset utilization will improve equipment reliability and uptime.
- Management — Dashboards enable plant managers to watch their production costs and executives to monitor the efficiency of each facility.
- Environment, health and safety (EHS) — Plant managers can monitor critical data related to emissions, water discharge and operator exposure to hazardous materials.
Benchmarking
Knowing how you compare with the competition in terms of production quality, speed and cost is the first step in improving your operations performance. MAVERICK helps you identify benchmarks for your manufacturing automation and IT infrastructure. Then we develop and integrate systems that will record, store, measure and analyze your data, providing the information and strategy you need to sharpen your competitive advantage.
Predictive Analysis
MAVERICK will help you use your collected data to identify trends and predict events. With the right systems in place for viewing, monitoring and analyzing your data, you can make the necessary adjustments to keep your product on-spec and avoid downtime due to equipment failure.
Complex Event Processing
Sometimes collecting plant-floor data on its own is not enough — you also need to know how your production variables affect each other and what resulting events are possible. Drawing upon our extensive automation experience in your industry, MAVERICK helps define the logic and present complex variables to enable effective monitoring. From analytic technology to algorithms, MAVERICK provides a complete set of tools and solutions to help you improve your operations management.
Business Activity Monitoring
MAVERICK develops and implements business activity monitoring (BAM) solutions for collecting data to form business intelligence. These solutions feature methods for presenting real-time data on dashboards that include KPIs. Managers can then use this information for visibility, measurement and assurance of key business activities, and to receive warning notifications. With MAVERICK working to develop your BAM solutions, your facility can identify and correct operational problems before they become too costly.
Business Performance Management
Depend on MAVERICK to evaluate and optimize business performance as it relates to the following areas:
- People — We deliver improved visibility, role-based portals, collaborarion and flexible solutions.
- Assets — We evaluate uptime, OEE and operational costs.
- Processes — We help you define and improve workflow and business process automation.
- Information and events — We define and deliver analytics, knowledge, compliance and actionable events.