Automation Modeling
Model automation, robotic, and man-machine processes with Timer Pro's time study software for automated manufacturing—often in under an hour—and instantly quantify how any change affects productivity and OEE.
Justify Automation Investments with Hard Data
With today’s aging workforce and tight labor markets, manufacturers everywhere are exploring automation, robotic, and man-machine applications. The capital being invested is significant, yet the data used to justify it is often subjective and difficult to model. Timer Pro automation models can frequently be built in less than an hour, and let you instantly quantify the effect of any change in activity on the productivity and OEE of the process-presenting your processes in a way clients tell us is far clearer than the traditional Gantt charts used by automation vendors.
Watch the overview video below to see automation modeling in action.
Explore Scenarios and Track ROI
Automation models let you rapidly explore multiple performance scenarios to cost-justify investment, track the ROI on those investments, and optimize existing processes. New clients report that this feature alone can often justify Timer Pro with their very first model.
The summary below reports, by asset: the activity being performed, the time for that activity, total cycle time, units per hour, OEE time, OEE %, value-added time, and value-added OEE %.
Accurate Models, Straight from Video
Timer Pro’s Video Time Study module is the perfect complement when modeling your current processes. Because the actions of your automation assets are consistent, a single-cycle video of the process supplies every time you need to build an accurate model, with millisecond accuracy.
Ideal for Equipment Vendors and System Integrators
Automation vendors and system integrators can use automation models to support proposed solutions to potential clients. A free web service lets vendors and integrators securely share their automation report packages-and their actual models - for online review, in a hosted, limited-feature copy of Timer Pro where customers can examine every detail but cannot make changes. No company- or customer-identifiable data is required, collected, or stored.
From a single cycle of video to a fully quantified automation model, Timer Pro turns subjective investment decisions into a fast, repeatable path to higher throughput and stronger ROI.