Case Study
The Commercial Printing Company kept records of their processes and workflow manually, consuming a lot of time and resources.They also struggled to reduce downtime of critical equipment due to lack of shop floor operations visibility
The Rigid Plastic Company faced challenging and increasing delivery costs. Unable to identify the root causes for unexpected downtime, machines often had to be shut down for long periods leading to high levels of waste, increased costs and a negative impact on quality and equipment effectiveness.
Frequent and unplanned downtimes were often difficult to predict with no clearly identifiable root cause.
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Downtime led to high levels of waste across the production and manufacturing process.
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Quality and overall equipment efficiency was low and needed to be optimised.
We deployed the following solutions to help RPC achieve the desired results:
To identify key process parameters and their effect on quality. These provided operators with early warnings against breakdowns, to ensure corrective actions and reduce unplanned downtime.
Learn moreTo take proactive actions before failure, and streamline the maintenance process.
Learn moreTo connect and monitor its utilities and machines, this provided visibility into key parameters at each stage of utility operations.
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The Rigid Plastics Company were able to exceed their targets and improve their performance and key parameters, most notably by:
