Medtronic

high volume manufacturer of electronic surgical devices and generators

“The use of ‘data’ in industry today has become synonymous with the perception that organizations who use data effectively are modern and moving forward by increasing efficiency and staying competitive in a global market, whereas those who don’t are falling behind.”

-Hardware Engineering Manager

Challenge

Lack of visibility into failure reasons and yield issues
Lack of tracking process anomalies which impact the overall manufacturing throughput
Lack of characterization on performance issues
No way to be proactive on line-stopping issues and problems
Ability to monitor critical KPI’s in real-time with Alerting and enterprise level visibility

Solution

Aggregation of manufacturing and failure analysis data from multiple product lines
Integration with other systems (Data Commander, SPC Monitor, Intelligent Clicker) to provide a full system monitoring process and product quality
Normalization of data to structure disparate datasets into meaningful information available to cross-functional teams
Out of the box and custom reports and visualizations with notifications and alerts

Benefits

Real-time monitoring of data collection and business-focused metrics (throughput yield, failures, SPC on measurements)
Failure Analysis providing in-depth insight into both product and process performance
Live data transformed into positive business outcomes via manage-by-exception alerting