Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Metrics User Guide - Manual (Page 10)

Chapter 1 Welcome to FactoryTalk Metrics
powerful, yet simple set of tools to analyze the performance of
production assets.
FactoryTalk Metrics provides ratings - Overall Equipment
Effectiveness (OEE), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), and
Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) - that allow you to evaluate the
performance of your production assets. A production asset (or
activity area) can be anything from a single piece of equipment to a
complete manufacturing plant. These ratings provide a simple way
to determine quickly whether a production asset is performing
adequately, based on data collected from the control system.
FactoryTalk Metrics offers the following features and benefits:
• Rich reporting, graphing, analyzing, and querying
functionality providing a complete and easy-to-use solution for
performance analysis.
• High-level analysis tools to easily identify poorly performing
assets, including the ability to drill into the underlying detail to
identify the causes of production inefficiencies.
• The ability to evaluate every production asset based on OEE,
MTBF, and MTTR ratings.
• The ability to isolate each asset so that its rating is not affected
by upstream or downstream performance.
• The ability to connect most of the OEE parameters to either a
data point or a formula, providing flexibility in the
configuration of the OEE rating.
• The ability to embed a report object in any Microsoft ActiveX
container, such as Visual Basic or Internet Explorer.
The FactoryTalk Metrics User Guide is designed to help you
understand how to access and use the FactoryTalk Metrics product.
This document focuses on the end-user functions of FactoryTalk
Features and Benefits
Intended Audience
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