The world of failures troubleshooting: from development to productionחינם לחברי האיגוד

1. Diagnostics overview

The term "Diagnostics" is used by different companies for different mechanism whose purpose is to detect system problems and sometimes to repair/recover them. In the first part, the widest scope of this term will be presented.

Most R&D organizations do not see the diagnostics functions as part of the basic/mandatory system functionality. They tend to postpone the diagnostics development to a later stage, which, in practice, blocks the ability to develop a good diagnostics system.  In the second part, the late development obstacles will be presented.

2. Development Test Bench processes
   1. Test Bench – The Value for Operation & R&D – Perception of Quality, Cost Reduction, COGS Influence, Tools Researcher , Testability etc.
   2. Development process trough PLM process flow.
   3. Test Method (Reusing).
   4. HW & SW concepts.
   5. Outcome = “Smart data analysis”
      
      
3. Smart system for failure troubleshooting reports

KIAMI's FASTtroubleshoot is a top-class troubleshooting web software that enables maintenance, engineering, manufacturing operators, IT and other manufacturing teams to provide much more efficient repair process thus cutting-down equipment/ systems’ down times, improving quality and efficiency and improving knowledge collaboration cross teams and sites. The system provides one centralized troubleshooting repository for the various systems, equipment, processes and products of the company.

Its unique knowledge-base incorporates the following elements:

• The diagnostics process is automatically optimized over-time to minimize repair time
• Expert wizard enables to define expert guidelines for quick resolution of complex failures
• Process control and predictive maintenance analytics.

These elements provide several key benefits:

•  Much faster repair process, while cutting-down down times, in some cases from hours to minutes
•  Improved operation KPI’s, such as manufacturing efficiency and quality and materials waste rates
•  Excellent collaboration of troubleshooting best-practice cross teams and sites
•  Operation teams can quickly repair a wider range of failures without support team’s involvement
•  Reduce new workers’ learning curve and minimize losses due to workers’ departure
•  Reduce ramp-up and risks while introducing of new processes, systems and products
•  Proactive process control and predictive maintenance