Features & Benefits
Work Order Creation
Improved Quality and Operations Integrity
Plant Schedule Optimization
A sequence of process steps is referred to as the work order “recipe”. Steelhead utilizes a recipe tree to streamline the creation of work orders from a purchase order. Recipe steps can be configured in a flexible interface that allows for collapsing any section of the recipe, giving you configurable granularity.
Process specifications are set up and attached to each process step. When a specification is updated in Steelhead, its changes cascade down to update each recipe in which it is utilized.
When the work order is created in Steelhead, it pulls in all associated work instructions for proper processing.
Plant Schedule Optimization
Improved Quality and Operations Integrity
Plant Schedule Optimization
Steelhead runs a state-of-the-art algorithmic solver deploying artificial intelligence to determine the most efficient way for a manufacturing plant to process the work orders in its queue. The Steelhead system runs a concurrent simulation environment to optimize production scheduling, react to schedule disruptions, and provide an expected completion time for each work order. Steelhead improves on-time performance via top-down modeling of the workflow.
The software leverages machine learning to become smarter over time by feeding back the true processing time for each process step, to better predict optimal processing schedules.
Improved Quality and Operations Integrity
Improved Quality and Operations Integrity
Improved Quality and Operations Integrity
The Steelhead software is a centralized system, with a series of mobile tablets stationed throughout the factory floor. The tablets are featured at each workstation to instruct operators, collect key quality and process data, and to provide live visibility of the plant floor.
Sequential and definitive just in time task instruction to operators avoids costly mistakes, improves First-Time-Through Quality, and records operator actions.
With simple and easy task instruction, Steelhead reduces operator training costs.
Root cause analysis is simplified with clear, historical digital documentation.
Traceability
Plant Efficiency Statistics
Improved Quality and Operations Integrity
Root cause analysis is simplified with clear, historical digital documentation.
Audit compliance cost will be dramatically reduced by providing a searchable and sortable database of plant operations.
Each process has quality data fields and instruction check lists to populate as defined in the work order. Each interaction with the Steelhead software is traced, timestamped, and stored for audit purposes.
Plant Efficiency Statistics
Plant Efficiency Statistics
Plant Efficiency Statistics
To maximize the productivity of each factory, Steelhead employs custom statistical reporting tools to determine: process line utilization rates, parts processed per day, line down time, worker productivity, work order profitability, and more.
Plant Management
Plant Efficiency Statistics
Plant Efficiency Statistics
By automating plant scheduling, reducing data entry time, and improving the recipe database, plant management can focus on more strategic initiatives.
A plant overview dashboard displays plant performance metrics and live job status.
The quoting team can rely on a predicted work order completion time, providing up front delivery estimations with confidence.
To streamline invoicing, the Steelhead system automatically sends completed work orders to compatible accounting software, such as QuickBooks Online.