In current digital world, we are overwhelmed by tones of data, while majority of it is useless and is only distorting the information you need to plan your daily activities on loss elimination. There are very advanced tools for loss elimination offered on the market, but if the company does not have basics in place, like systems enabling detailed identification of all types of losses: microstops, process failures, breakdowns, quality issues, scrap, etc. enhanced by algorithms cleaning this data from all fake signals, these tools are not fed by proper data and output and suggestions you receive from them may not be correct. 

What is more, experience of global leading firms that are successful in their continuous improvement journey, presents that before you start using advanced, predictive tools for loss elimination, like digital twins, AR, VR, IoT, etc. you have to put in place basic processes on the shop floor and eliminate chronic losses to be really able to benefit from their usage. Elimination of these chronic losses does not require sophisticated tools, but correct identification of critical losses and discipline in creation of countermeasures in the form of daily Standard Operating Procedures to eliminate them (Shields).

This approach is quite often not followed by companies and they spend millions USD on tools that are not fitting their real needs at the moment. Value delivered by these advanced tools is much lower than it could be having basics in place and feeding these tools by proper data.

The GrowTech LossHunter App is getting you there. It will build foundation for advanced Industry 4.0 tools and will enhance the value they will deliver to you. LossHunter captures all losses, by being connected to your IT/OT systems where the data is stored (PLC, Historians, etc.). Dedicated algorithms are cleaning this data from any fake signals and separate algorithms analyze data to identify Bottle Necks and Critical Losses that you should focus on and eliminate. Cleaned data, using advanced analytics, is used to present to you all losses identified as critical, in all possible perspectives.