Plant Watcher: Eliminating Waste & Improving Profitability

In the current market it is more important than ever that every load of concrete delivered meets quality specifications that production interruptions are minimized, and that batch plants are performing optimally. Command Alkon’s Plant Watcher for COMMANDbatch is a tireless sentinel that provides centralized monitoring of all your batch operations. This continuous monitoring and notification system allows your management team to identify and react to problems in real-time, eliminating wasted time and materials while improving your bottom line. Plant Watcher provides automatic detection and distribution of alerts in response to plant events such as quality issues, unauthorized changes to materials or mix designs, out-of-specification concrete, or production interruptions. Alerts can be displayed on your desktop or sent to your cell phone. You define the monitoring criteria to meet your specific production objectives. You can monitor critical pours differently than other pours and set notification levels that can escalate alerts to senior management based on your criteria. Critical plant problems such as “low air pressure” or “truck under plant too long” can trigger alerts that are sent to maintenance personnel instantly to minimize production downtime. Tolerance settings can be used to trigger alerts on groups of materials (i.e. aggregates) or for an individual material such as cement, in any combination. Built-in, automated reporting from Plant Watcher provides Quality Control, Operations, Managers, and Executives the information they need to analyze and understand all aspects of your batch plant operations, each from their own unique perspective. Schedule production, efficiency, and maintenance reports to be automatically collected and e-mailed at the same time every day, freeing the operator from having to manually print and send this information. Powerful analysis tools allow you to zero in on plant performance issues and identify solutions to implement, either on a per-load or consolidated basis.

So let Plant Watcher help you eliminate waste in your operations; wasted time, wasted materials, and wasted profits. Contact your sales representative today.

Plant Performance Report: A comprehensive report that allows you to quickly identify problem areas. Out of tolerance loads are highlighted in yellow and areas in red show that the plant feed mechanism for this material may need attention. Plant Watcher: Eliminating Waste & Improving Profitability

Variance Tab: The Plant Performance Variance Tab shows in dollars and cents what profits are being lost due to overbatching. Color-coded cells identify material variance from best to worst. Material Tab: The Plant Performance Material Tab shows how well COMMANDbatch is able to hit the material targets. A wide variation in over and under on the scatter chart means that quality is suffering.

Material Tab: The Plant Performance Material Tab how well COMMANDbatch is able to hit the material targets. A wide variation in over and under on the scatter chart means that quality is suffering.

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