Automated Sources for Production Counting

Many of the same issues apply to production counting as waste detection. Planning starts with auditing the availability and behavior or signals that imply production. Production signals can come in many forms, and can have many issues that affect the quality of the measurement. It will be necessary to model the data quality into the calculation of production so it will be necessary to understand the behavior of those signals as well.

What Can Be Automated?

• Any raw signal measuring production

• Any conditions that invalidate production counting

• Product specific conversion factors to normalize engineering units

Examples:

• Flow signal measures raw production rate

• Signal from valve indicates whether product is being accepted or rejected

• Variable used to totalize good production and bad production separately using valve status

Examples of Production Signal Data