Unique Challenges
Anywhere you look you'll see something made of plastic. Plastics manufacturing is one of the most diverse industries with products ranging from pellets, polymers and resins, to film, forks and just about anything imaginable including the machines to produce and finish plastic products. Although products vary widely, efficiently producing a quality product remains a common goal.
Real-time display of KPIs (key performance indicators) and informational data is critical. The sections below provide a brief list of the more prominent plastics manufacturing applications and the customers we've helped.
Popular Applications
| Uptime/downtime/setup time | |
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| APPLICATION |
Production time, once lost, is gone forever. Real-time display of uptime, downtime, setup and/or standby time helps operators to manage and make the best use of valuable production time. Display any category of production time to keep supervisors and operators informed. Also display event or accumulated time for any category and OEE Availability percentage. |
| PRODUCT | |
| Cycle time/average cycle time | |
| APPLICATION |
Real-time display of the current cycle, last completed cycle, average cycle, small stop and reduced speed cycle or any combination thereof helps to expose process inefficiencies. Additionally, OEE Performance and the number of cycles for any category can be displayed to further enhance cycle time awareness. |
| PRODUCT |
87/705 Programmable timer, XL400 Large digital, XL600 Multi-line |
| Target count/actual count/efficiency percentage or variance | |
| APPLICATION |
An alternative to a cycle time display is to display a target or goal count, the actual piece count, and the calculated efficiency percentage or time and/or piece variance. The result is knowing if the line is meeting production goals “at-a-glance”. |
| PRODUCT |
87/805 Efficiency display, XL400 Large digital, XL600 Multi-line |
| Real-time OEE | |
| APPLICATION |
OEE is a “best practices”way to monitor the efficiency of manufacturing processes. It takes the most common sources of manufacturing productivity loss, places them into three primary categories (availability, performance and quality) and distills them into metrics that provide a gauge for measuring where you are and how you can improve. Show OEE, availability, performance and quality percentages as well as all related variables. |
| PRODUCT | |
Plastics Customers
The following represents just of few of the many customers in the plastics industry that we've helped with our solutions.
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• Alcoa/Pechiney Plastic Packaging |
• Huhtamaki |
