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mmsonline.com April 2017 MMS 127 SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE Management solution. Built on the company's modular manufacturing management software, TrakSYS, the OEE solution enables users to monitor, measure and improve operations. TrakSYS OEE Performance Management is designed to strike a balance between visually appealing and superficial reports from one data source on the one hand, and lots of data but no tools to act on it on the other. To that end, it col- lects and aggregates data from multiple sources, leveraging existing assets, resources and infra- structure to provide insight into areas of the operation that need improvement as well as the tools needed to take action. The platform uses a variety of standard dashboards and reports and provides the ability to customize them through web-based configuration tools. The solution is designed to account for three OEE measurement areas: availability, performance and quality. Availability (downtime loss) encom- passes change-overs, sanitation/cleaning, break- downs, startup/shutdown, facility problems, and so for th. Pe r formance (spe ed loss) include s running a production system at a speed lower than the theoretical run rate, and shor t-stop failures such as jams and overloads. Qualit y (defect loss) comprises production and startup rejects, process defects, reduction in yield and products that need to be reworked to conform to quality standards. TrakSYS is an integrated platform that contains all the functionality of a full manufacturing execu- tion system (MES) in one package. The system is m o d u l a r, s o u s e r c a n d e p l oy o n l y r e q u i r e d If machines were to decide...