Automotive Industry: Speed and Quality, Without Stress

In the automotive industry, every minute matters.

High volumes, fast production rates, and tight deadlines coexist with strict quality standards, full traceability, and zero tolerance for unexpected issues.

In other words: industrial performance isn’t optional.

Yet on the shop floor, many factories still struggle to track productivity in real time, identify the true causes of losses (micro-stops, reduced speeds, scrap), or capture valuable shop-floor know-how.

So how can manufacturers gain reactivity and visibility without adding complexity for their teams?

The answer comes down to one thing: data, but the right data. Reliable, useful, contextualized, and available in seconds.

The Specific Challenges of the Automotive Industry

Direct Impact on Performance

• Delays only detected at the end of the shift (too late to take action)
• Cycle-time deviations that stay invisible in real time
• Poorly categorized stops, leading to poor understanding and poor responses
• Shop-floor actions that go unrecognized, due to lack of visibility and concrete evidence
• Friction between production, quality, maintenance, and logistics teams

🎯 Result: production moves forward, but not always in the most efficient way… and it becomes hard to prove where the real issues or improvements actually are.

KEYPROD: the solution built for the speed and demands of the automotive industry

✅ Real-time cycle tracking

• Actual vs target cycle-time comparison

• Detection of micro-stops and reduced speeds

• Immediate response: alerts, prioritized actions, delays avoided

✅ Accurate downtime qualification

• Standardized stop categories (setup, quality, maintenance, etc.)

• Guided entry at the workstation with operator comments

• Pareto, root-cause analysis, and targeted action plans

✅ Shared data = better coordination

• One single source of truth for Production, Quality, Maintenance, and Logistics

• Shared dashboards, AIC/QRQC rituals driven by facts

• Less Excel, more synchronized decisions

✅ Effortless traceability

• Timestamping by machine, batch, and reference

• Complete, exportable history for audits

• Clear link between events, parts, and lots

Customer Case: Restoring Shop-Floor Visibility and Accelerating Production Control

⚙️ Machines with very short cycles (1–2 seconds)
🎯 Goal: monitor lines in real time and streamline reporting

🔴 Before KEYPROD

• Paper / Excel data, not standardized
• No real-time visibility
• Manual reporting: long, slow, and hard to use
• Hard to identify problem stations
• Maintenance not focused on the right areas

🟢 After KEYPROD

• Instant visibility on production
• Real-time, continuously updated indicators
• Automated, reliable reporting
• Fast identification of downtime causes
• Maintenance focused on critical stations

“Thanks to KEYPROD, we now have accurate indicators across our machine park, which greatly simplifies our internal reporting — with reliable and measurable data to support it.”

Production Manager – Winding Department, Johnson Electric

✅ In Summary : controlled cycle times, restored peace of mind

With KEYPROD, you can:
✔️ Produce with greater peace of mind
✔️ React faster to disruptions
✔️ Highlight the value of shop-floor actions
✔️ Prove your performance with solid, real data

👉 Ready to control your lines down to the second?
Try KEYPROD for free and discover how to boost your OEE, improve traceability, and reduce shop-floor stress all without compromising on quality !