Unique Challenges
In an extremely competitive industry, company profitability often rests squarely on the ability to keep expensive press and finishing equipment running around the clock. Additionally, with printing jobs won or lost by just a few pennies, accurate quoting is a must. Real-time production feedback of run rate, downtime and changeover loss, waste factors and more enables all levels of a printing operation to become more efficient.
In order for this to happen, the production environment must be managed in real-time. The display of real-time KPIs (key performance indicators) and informational data provides press operators and supervisors the tools the need to improve productivity. The sections below provide a brief list of printing applications and the customers we've helped.
Popular Applications
| Press speed display | |
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| APPLICATION |
Real-time display of roll or sheet-fed product, cut, bind or gluing run rates is critical to process efficiency. Additionally, equipment often runs best at a particular speed. Large digital display of the surface feet, sheets, cut, folds and other events per minute/hour helps to keep production on track for meeting goal. |
| PRODUCT |
87/415 Rate display plus, XL400 Large digital, XL600 Multi-line |
| Downtime display | |
| APPLICATION |
Downtime can be categorized as pure waste in the manufacturing environment. Additionally, start-up after a downtime event can lead to producing significant waste product that is often unrecoverable. Reducing downtime and using downtime tracking to anticipate downtime events can significantly improve productivity. |
| PRODUCT |
87/705 Programmable timer, XL400 Large digital, XL600 Multi-line, XL800 Multi-line |
| Target run rate/actual run rate/percent efficiency display | |
| APPLICATION |
Real-time production goals allow plant floor employees to take real-time action in order to improve efficiency. Display a goal run rate, actual run rate and a calculated efficiency. Additional useful process variables include event and accumulated downtime, OEE and more. |
| PRODUCT | |
Printing Customers
The following represents just of few of the many customers in the printing industry that we've helped with our solutions.
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• ADVO |
• Ovalstrapping |
