Krones’ Mobile Line Assistant app won in the production category at the sps ipc drives 2014 trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany last month.
The app provides line personnel with what is practically an expert system ‘always to hand’ in their pockets.
The operator gets his malfunction messages as a tailored selection precisely matched to his actual needs.
Nor does the logic leave him alone with this problem; it gives him proactively relevant contents for solving it.
The apps were rated against the criteria of benefits, usability, and the originality of the idea.
Besides the verdict of the five-strong jury, online voting at elektrotechnik.de and user ratings in the app store also played a significant role.
Beneficial effect on line availability
The Mobile Line Assistant app supports the line’s personnel in performing their daily remits at bottling or canning plants.
With a clear informational structure, all the activities involved are promptly presented in an easy-read overview.
Rigorous reduction to relevant contents, plus a clear, design language on the level of the user interface, help the operators to identify problems swiftly even in stressful situations.
All these characteristics together ensure minimized cognitive stress on the personnel involved, while at the same time exerting a beneficial effect on the line’s availability, since the personnel concerned can detect and address the tasks encountered in the line more quickly.
The app will in future be a constituent of Krones’ SitePilot information technology umbrella brand, and thus a part of the firm’s comprehensive range of modularized software, covering all the tasks involved from production to logistics, and enabling all the processes concerned to be planned, visualized, documented and controlled.
