On-Stream Factor

The On-Stream Factor Metric View illustrates for a single production unit how much time the unit was available for production and not down for any reason indicated in the baseline Impact Code records.

Each level of the Metric View displays a percentage of available time using the following equation:

...where:

Note: If a production unit produces more than one product, where each of those products has its own production plan and Short Range Plan values, the sum of those Short Range Plan values is used in the equation. This is illustrated in the example following this list.

Note: If you have created custom impact codes to categorize your data, you will need to modify the calculation for the On-Stream Factor Metric View in the Production Data cube in SQL Server Analysis Services. Instructions for completing this task are not provided in the Meridium APM Documentation. For more information, consult your Microsoft documentation.

For example, assume that for Unit 1:

Using this data, Mechanical Availability is calculated using the following values:

Remember that On-Stream Factor is calculated as:

...so:

On-Stream Factor = (10 x 13,000 - [24,500 + 8,200 + 19,500 + 0 + 14,200 + 0 + 5,000] / [10 x 13,000]) x 100

On-Stream Factor = ([130,000 - 71,400] / 130,000) x 100

On-Stream Factor = (58,600 / 130,000) x 100

On-Stream Factor = .4507 x 100

On-Stream Factor = 45.07%

In this case, if you were to view the On-Stream Factor Metric View for Unit 1, the level that displays on-stream factor for January would look like this, where the month of January is displayed on the x-axis, and the on-stream factor is displayed on the y-axis as a percentage:

In other words, from January 1 through January 10, Unit 1 operated 48.92% of the time without experiencing a Down Day or Slowdown Day.

If you were to drill down into the next level of the graph, you would see this:

Here, you can see that for day 6 (January 6), Unit 1 was available 46.15% of the day without experiencing a Down Day or Slowdown Day. This value is calculated using the following values.

Product

Date

MSCR

Losses

Impact Code

Bottles

1/6/2010

5000

2000

RPSD

Labels

1/6/2010

8000

2000

OTSD

Using these values, for January 2:

...On-Stream Factor is calculated as:

On-Stream Factor = ([1 x 13,000 - 4,000] / [1 x 13,000]) x 100

On-Stream Factor = .6923 x 100

On-Stream Factor = 69.23%

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