High-mix, high-speed lines lose hours to changeovers nobody sequences deliberately. Vegam schedules against live constraints and holds the discipline shift after shift.
Every changeover timed. Every stop reason-coded. Every check bound to the batch.
High-mix lines lose hours to changeovers no one sequences deliberately, and the gap between the best and worst crew is never measured.
Plans built on last week’s numbers collapse against today’s orders, and re-planning is done by hand.
Micro-stops and speed loss never reach the shift report, so OEE reflects memory rather than the line.
Checkweigh and metal-detect results sit in the device, transcribed at the end of the run, so a failed check holds far more product than it should.
Not whether there is capacity in the abstract. Whether this order can run on this line once material, changeover and the shift boundary are all real. Pick a candidate order.
Illustrative scheduling scenario. Order, material and line identifiers are examples.
Eight stages from the demand signal to the pallet leaving the yard. Click a stage to see the operational reality, and what changes when the line runs on one record.
CONCURRENT · Primary production is fill-and-pack; secondary packaging is case and pallet build. The in-line control points are the checkweigher and the metal detector.
Demand moves, so the schedule moves, so material and equipment availability move with it. Vegam orchestrates that whole chain rather than optimising one link of it.
The revised order set lands against the current plan rather than beside it.
Re-sequenced against changeover cost, not just due date.
Component and packaging coverage checked before the sequence is committed.
Line state, cleaning and condition folded into what can actually run.
Timed against a standard, so the loss is measured rather than absorbed.
Reason-coded stops and rate loss captured as the line runs.
Checkweigh and metal-detect results bound to the batch.
What the line really produced, against what the plan assumed.
Live material and capacity in the plan, so an order that cannot run does not reach the line.
Every changeover timed against a standard and benchmarked crew to crew.
Losses named by cause, line and shift rather than totalled monthly.
Checkweigh and metal-detect results bound to the batch as they are produced.
Bring one line and its changeover pattern. We’ll map where the hours go and show what changes when the sequence is planned against live constraints.