System and method for monitoring manufacturing operations

A method for automatically monitoring operations of a production line as a function of a takt time, the method comprising the following steps:

• a) receiving or acquiring a takt time for production of a product by the production line;
• b) receiving or acquiring a set of successive operations to be performed on the product by one or several items of equipment of the production line, each operation being characterized by a duration defined as a function of the takt time;
• c) acquiring in real time and from the one or several items of equipment of the production line, a temporal progression or evolution of the successive operations;
• d) automatically determining from the temporal progression or evolution a predicted end of at least one or of each of the successive operations;
• e) automatically determining whether at least one of the predicted ends exceeds an expected end of the operation;
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• f) upon step e) being in the affirmative, automatically triggering or activating a measure aiming to reduce a temporal difference between the predicted end and the expected end.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing unit to cause a computing system to:

• a) receive or acquire a takt time for production of a product by a production line;
• b) receive or acquire a set of successive operations to be performed on the product by equipment of the production line, each operation being characterized by a duration defined as a function of the takt time;
• c) acquire, in real time and from the equipment of the production line, a temporal progression or evolution of each of the successive operations;
• d) automatically determine from the temporal progression or evolution a predicted end of at least one or of each of the successive operations;
• e) automatically determine whether at least one of the predicted ends exceeds an expected end of the operation;
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• f) upon step e) being in the affirmative, automatically trigger or activate a measure aiming to reduce a temporal difference between the predicted end and the expected end and configured for keeping the production rate equal to the takt time.