Ceequel® Operational Intelligence
(Formally known as Shop Floor Data Capture)
Connect operational activity with commercial performance
Ceequel® Operational Intelligence is a highly configurable data, calculation and decision-support platform that connects your business systems, workforce, machinery and operational processes.
Formerly known as Ceequel Shop Floor Data Capture, the platform goes far beyond recording activity. It brings together planned information from systems such as ERP and MRP with live operational data, helping manufacturers understand:
- What was planned
- What actually happened
- Why performance varied
- What the variation meant financially
Your systems may tell you what was expected. Ceequel helps reveal what really happened—and what it meant to the business.
Book a DemonstrationTurn fragmented data into operational intelligence
Most manufacturers already hold significant amounts of information across ERP, MRP, financial, workforce and production systems.
The difficulty is connecting that information with what is happening on the factory floor. Ceequel can receive information including:
- Production orders
- Routings and operations
- Standard hours
- Planned quantities
- Job instructions
- Machine allocations
- Materials and quality requirements
- Cost and financial information
This information can be presented directly to employees and supervisors through touchscreens, terminals, barcode scanners and mobile devices.
Capture activity as it happens
As work progresses, Ceequel can capture additional operational information including:
- Job and activity time
- Completed quantities
- Downtime and stoppages
- Waste, scrap and rework
- Work in Progress
- Machine and resource usage
- Productive and non-productive activity
- Quality checks
- Reasons for delays or variance
Information is recorded close to the activity, reducing reliance on spreadsheets, paper records and retrospective data entry.
Convert operational data into meaningful insight
Collecting information is only the beginning. Ceequel includes a configurable rules and calculation engine capable of combining workforce, job, machine, activity and financial data.
This can provide insight into:
- Labour productivity
- Job costing and profitability
- Labour allocation and recovery
- Actual versus standard performance
- Work in Progress
- Machine utilisation
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness
- Downtime and bottlenecks
- Waste and rework
- Cost and margin variance
- Productive and non-productive time
This enables managers to identify developing issues earlier, rather than waiting for retrospective reports after the cost has already been incurred.
A continuous operational information flow
Ceequel creates a structured flow of information across the organisation:
Receive
Orders, standards, routings and cost information are received from authorised systems.
Present
Relevant information is delivered to employees and supervisors.
Capture
The workforce, machinery and operational processes contribute live activity data.
Calculate
Ceequel applies operational and financial rules.
Distribute
Meaningful information is delivered through Ceequel reporting or returned to approved external systems.
The cost of a job well done
By utilising the Ceequel® time and attendance organisation chart HR software, you can create graphical representations of your company hierarchy, including parent organisations and subsidiaries. By individually assigning job titles to each position you can illustrate a true company picture. Since each position listed is fully customisable, you can add details such as job grade, location, salary, working hours, headcount, probation period, skills and qualifications. The system helps to ensure data integrity, identifies vacancies within your company, provides analysis of future needs (such as skills matching) and enhances employee development from within your company.
Such precise actual costs and completion forecasts provide an indispensable project management tool, which thanks to a maintained historical database can also enable more accurate future estimating.
Connect paid time with operational value
Ceequel Operational Intelligence connects with:
- Ceequel Time & Attendance
- Ceequel Workforce Management
This allows manufacturers to combine attendance and working-time information with jobs, activities, machines and production output.
The business can understand:
- Who was present
- When they worked
- What they worked on
- How long each activity took
- What was produced
- Which resources were used
- How performance compared with the standard
- What the work cost
Machine Monitoring
Our machine monitoring provides a crucial service to optimise the efficiency of all your manufacturing equipment. It can help to avert costly machine downtime by instantaneously identifying problems as they emerge calculating all machine costs per hour and assisting you in making the decision to purchase new equipment or not. There is simply no better way to monitor and control your manufacturing process.
View our Shop Floor Data Capture timeline to see it's usage over an average day.
Configured around your operation
Every manufacturer has different processes, terminology, calculations and performance measures. Ceequel can be configured around your specific requirements, including:
- Data feeds
- Employee screens
- Workflows
- Activities
- Calculations
- Business rules
- Dashboards
- Reports and alerts
The platform adapts to your operation rather than forcing your operation to adapt to the software.
Support Continuous Improvement
Ceequel provides the detailed operational information required to support Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement programmes. It helps organisations:
- Measure current performance
- Identify waste and inefficiency
- Analyse recurring variance
- Compare actual results with standards
- Identify bottlenecks
- Measure the effect of process changes
- Quantify the financial value of improvement
- Sustain performance gains
Make operational performance commercially visible
Ceequel® Operational Intelligence provides the central layer between your systems, workforce, machinery and operational processes. It helps manufacturers achieve:
- Better operational visibility
- Stronger labour and cost control
- More accurate job costing
- Earlier identification of variance
- Improved productivity
- Greater confidence in management decisions
- Measurable support for Continuous Improvement
Better performance does not begin with more data. It begins with understanding the data you already have.
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