Downtime Tracking Tour

How does Thrive work?

Thrive’s cutting-edge plug-and-play hardware is designed to monitor the heartbeat and output of your manufacturing lines, providing real-time equipment performance tracking. This means you’ll have immediate insights into whether your lines are operational, how efficiently they’re running, and where you can implement strategies to reduce production downtime. By delivering actionable data, Thrive helps to optimize OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) and enhances productivity through advanced automation and comprehensive performance analysis.

Take a tour of our innovative solutions, and discover how Thrive empowers manufacturers to achieve greater efficiency. Contact us today for a quote to see how affordable and impactful our software solutions can be. | Explore Thrive’s How-to Videos to learn more about improving your plant’s operational performance.

Wired or Wireless Installation

Thrive offers a seamless plug-and-play setup process. Our solution comes with all necessary components, allowing your team to complete the installation in just a few hours without the need for a server or PLC. Designed with simplicity in mind, Thrive’s installation saves time and reduces complexity, ensuring minimal disruption to your operations. Plus, our dedicated support team is ready to assist at every step, making it easier than ever to start optimizing your production.

Real-Time Production Status

Gain in-depth visibility into your plant operations with Thrive’s real-time production monitoring. Know whether your lines are running, how efficiently they’re performing, and the cause and length of any downtime event (Learn: How Thrive Collects a Downtime Event?). Thrive’s intuitive dashboard provides actionable insights at a glance to boost overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and operational productivity.

Dashboard

Thrive empowers businesses with the tools they need to make data-driven decisions about equipment maintenance, procurement, and operational efficiency. Our intuitive dashboard provides both real-time and historical efficiency data, ensuring your team can monitor performance at all times. With a proprietary algorithm, it prioritizes downtime issues, helping you identify and address the most critical problems to maximize production uptime. Built-in reports offer actionable insights through various data views, guiding you on the key strategies to reduce downtime and drive operational improvement.

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Operator Friendly

Thrive is super efficient—operators can assign a reason code for any downtime event in under 10 seconds, right from the shop floor. This streamlined process improves efficiency and minimizes delays, ensuring accurate tracking of machine downtime. Using an Internet-connected device like a tablet or smartphone, operators can also add optional comments to provide additional context, enhancing data quality. This operator-friendly approach seamlessly integrates with daily workflows, empowering teams to make data-driven decisions and reducing overall downtime.

Reason Codes

No two production lines are alike, which is why Thrive has an unlimited number of reason codes, including options for planned downtimes. Each layer can be configured to meet your needs, and our team is here to provide guidance and best practices.

Reason codes are easy to add and update instantly. With only three levels of detail, operators can quickly assign a code and you can easily analyze the information.

Daily Digest

Struggling to stay updated on machine downtime activities? Thrive’s Daily Downtime Digest offers a convenient solution by summarizing essential daily activity and delivering it directly to your inbox each morning. This automated email ensures you start your day informed, offering key insights to help reduce downtime and improve operational efficiency. Stay ahead with proactive updates designed to optimize your performance and decision-making processes.

Export Your Data

Thrive lets you easily export your downtime data into a spreadsheet to build customized pivot tables and detailed charts. By exporting your data, you can uncover trends, identify bottlenecks, and improve operational efficiency. For advanced integration, Thrive’s robust API seamlessly connects to your ERP system, delivering real-time, actionable insights directly within your preferred software tools. This ensures your team has instant access to critical performance data, empowering better decision-making and enhancing overall productivity.

Check on Your Equipment From Home

No matter how you prefer to work, Thrive’s dashboard has you covered. Too busy to log in for reports? The daily downtime digest summarizes daily activity and is automatically emailed to you. Have more time? Access the dashboard anytime, anywhere from any device with an Internet connection, including tablets and smart phones. Get a detailed, real-time view of overall equipment effectiveness.

Text & Email Alerts

Receive a text message or email alert when a line goes down, and customize the timing of alerts based on your preference. Want to know right away? Set your preference for 60 minutes or less. Want to wait longer in case an operator finds the fix? You can do that, too.

"A few months after installing the Thrive Downtime Tracking System"

we identified several key issues with our manufacturing line. Once corrected, our efficiency sky rocketed from 39% to 75%.

- Pat Kinnee, Splenda Continuous Improvement Engineer

"We're currently running 8% better than our budgeted throughput standards, "

so I consider it a win. Now we’re in a position where our other plants are interested in implementing the software.

- Pete Szelwach, Plant Manager at Lassonde Pappas and Company, Inc.

"We've been using Thrive for about a year with impressive results. "

Changeovers that used to take 33 minutes now only take 23. With around two each day, that time really adds up. Before using the software, we were 20 minutes into our morning shift before lines started running, and we’ve cut it down to just 8 minutes. Overall efficiency has spiked from around 45% to an average of 60%. Seeing the data has really helped us create a culture of ownership and accountability. Everyone watches the measurements and does their best to make sure things are running efficiently, because they can see the impact. With the help of Thrive, we’ve had zero overtime during our busy season. That’s a company first! Now that we’re meeting production goals, we can be proactive and schedule time to take lines down for preventative maintenance.

- Rollie Everson, Maintenance Supervisor, Amsoil

"We were ready to pay $250,000 for a downtime system when by accident we stumbled across Thrive MES on the internet"

“Not only did it offer everything the more expensive system did but it is a fraction of the price. We were even able to customize to our facility far within our budget.”

”After 2 years I was still able to teach them a few big things about the software that they didn’t know about. A recent major success they had was they were able to reduce their downtime by 17 whole shifts per year by making a small tweak in a process. Instead of stopping a machine to make a fabric slice for 1 minute, they slowed the machine down to make the slice while the machine was moving. They also noticed how much downtime changeovers caused so their scheduled department reduced their changesovers from 6 to 1 per week.”

- Steve Kaiser, Operations Manager, Sage Products

"Within 2 weeks their automated machines saw an increased efficiency by 20%"

by giving the operator real-time visibility, they took more ownership and responsibility for the machine’s output. As a result, it made the operator think twice about shutting down the line. ‘Can I correct this issue without shutting the machine down?

- John Batten, President, NHI Pullies Inc

"We've been able to cut our overtime by 60%"

as we identified that our change overs were the main source of downtime. Using this data to determine and implement solutions we were able to move from 12 hours shifts to 8 hour shifts. It also helped us reduce our quality issues by identifying sources of inefficiency.

- Mark Hennigan, Director of Operations, CHG

"We are really happy with it and love the planned downtime function."

The planned downtime function immediately identified excessive breaks and created accountability for the line running. Management now has real-time data.

- Keith Frazier, Maintenance Supervisor, Skyline Steel

"The real-time data"

in our break rooms and on our supervisor’s computers have created a real sense of urgency and ownership to improve our plant’s performance. You can’t argue with a 50 inch TV in the break room that updates every second.

- Jerry McConnell, Lineage Logistics

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