The Recommended Actions on the SpindleLIVE Facility Health page are designed to identify opportunities to improve your facility's performance. These are about improving your Facility Health Score and directly impacting your bottom line. You can align your business goals and processes with real actionable recommended actions that improve productivity and profitability.

Key Features:

• • Customizable KPIs: Tailor your Recommended Actions to align with your specific goals, whether adjusting break times or setting shift limits.
  • Efficiency Alerts: SpindleLIVE flags employees working above or below productivity thresholds, allowing you to manage performance effectively.
  • Login Compliance: Ensure accurate data entry to avoid inefficiencies in classification, such as the wrong product category, which can distort performance metrics.
  • Maintenance Tracking: Get alerts when equipment experiences excessive downtime, helping you track lost production time and identify root causes.
  • Historical Performance: Receive recommendations for reassigning tasks based on past employee performance, helping optimize labor distribution.

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Customization of Recommended Actions

Incorporate Recommended Actions into My Meetings

What Are the Recommended Actions?

Employee Productivity: Working Above or Below Classification Standards

Login-Based Recommended Actions

Maintenance and Equipment Downtime Alerts

Non-Standard Time: Customizable Alerts

Conclusion: Making Meetings More Productive

Customization of Recommended Actions

The first step is ensuring that Recommended Actions remain relevant to your facility's unique operations. These actions serve as stepping stones for continuous improvement, enabling your facility to thrive in efficiency and financial performance.

All Recommended Actions can be customized to align with your specific KPIs. This includes setting productivity thresholds, adjusting maintenance alerts, and managing shift durations. Customizing these alerts ensures that Recommended Actions are always relevant and aligned with your business processes.

Incorporate Recommended Actions into My Meetings

Yes! Recommended Actions on the SpindleLIVE Facility Health page should be a core part of your hourly, daily, and weekly management meetings. Regularly reviewing these insights lets your team quickly identify and act on performance opportunities. Incorporating them into your meetings ensures issues are caught early and any necessary changes are made sooner, keeping your facility aligned with your goals.

These actions become more apparent once integrated into your meetings, helping you adjust quickly to stay aligned with your KPIs.

What Are the Recommended Actions?

Recommended Actions are generated by SpindleLIVE, which makes suggestions based on your facility's data. They have been archived for the last 15 days, not including today. Recommended Actions are viewable on the Facility Health page both on SpindleLIVE mobile and the SpindleLIVE website. They offer a quick, actionable overview of areas needing attention and can be customized to align with your specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). These recommendations help your team stay proactive, identifying opportunities to address before they affect your facility’s output.

Employee Productivity: Working Above or Below Classification Standards

Recommended Actions help identify employees working above or below their classification standards. These actions are based on productivity thresholds that you set with your Customer Success Manager. For example, SpindleLIVE typically uses a 120% productivity threshold for Recommended Actions. This threshold isn’t a cap but a point where exceeding it indicates a need for review.

Imagine an employee feeding napkins into an ironer but logged in under the classification for aprons on the Spindle Login station. This discrepancy leads to inflated productivity data.

User Story: As a production manager, Sarah noticed one of her employees consistently worked above 130% efficiently. Using SpindleLIVE Mobile, she shared the screen with the employee, explaining the incorrect classification issue. Sarah hoped that providing this visual feedback would help the employee be more diligent about accurately using Spindle Logins. Sarah isn't wrong since we’re often visual learners—the visual aspect can reinforce better habits. Correcting the error improved data accuracy and ensured more relevant future Recommended Actions.

Login-Based Recommended Actions

Login-Based Recommended Actions highlight potential issues with how employees log into their Spindle Login station. These alerts are configured to alert you to excessive time in breaks, lunches, and meetings. Determining whether an incorrect classification is selected isn’t always visible in the data and may require visual inspections, especially when similar products are involved.

Note: SpindleLIVE’s Production Displays and the Facility Health Page can have different settings for break, lunch, and meeting times, allowing for a 1-2 minute alert on the displays before the Facility Health Score is impacted. This gives management an opportunity to address the issue before it affects overall performance.

Maintenance and Equipment Downtime Alerts

For customers using Equipment Utilization or CMMS (all CMMS customers automatically have Equipment Utilization), SpindleLIVE provides Recommended Actions related to equipment that exceeds a defined number of pending or downtime incidents. By default, equipment that goes into pending or emergency maintenance twice during production hours triggers an alert. These alerts can be customized based on your facility's needs and are vital for identifying recurring equipment issues that impact production.

The maintenance alerts on the Facility Health page are especially useful for notifying production management when equipment frequently goes down during production hours. Addressing this can prevent significant downtime and ensure smoother operations.

Non-Standard Time: Customizable Alerts

Non-Standard time is any time spent outside measured productive work, such as organizing garment hangars, as the time involved greatly depends on how they are received. SpindleLIVE allows you to customize Recommended Actions to alert you when Non-Standard Time exceeds a set threshold. For example, if your goal is to keep Non-Standard Time under 20%, you can set an alert when it reaches 20% or even 15%, giving you the opportunity to intervene early.

Conclusion: Making Meetings More Productive

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Incorporating SpindleLIVE’s Recommended Actions into your regular management meetings is essential for maintaining performance and efficiency. Reviewing these insights regularly in hourly, daily, and weekly meetings lets your team act quickly, ensuring your facility’s goals are met without delays. Customizable Recommended Actions help you track performance, prevent downtime, and ensure data accuracy, ultimately improving your Facility Health Score and P&L.