Unique Challenges
Pulp and paper product manufacturers produce a product that is often difficult to differentiate and considered a commodity in an extremely competitive environment. While there are certainly exceptions to this, company profitability often rests solely on their ability to operate efficiently.
The key is real-time management of the production environment. Real-time display of KPIs (key performance indicators) and informational data is critical. The sections below provide a brief list of popular pulp and paper applications and the customers we've helped.
Popular Applications
| Run rate/speed display | |
|---|---|
| APPLICATION |
Whether you are producing a roll or sheet product, cutting, folding or gluing, maintaining expected 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 |
| 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 | |
| Changeover time display | |
| APPLICATION |
In the pulp and paper industry changeovers often involve extensive machine adjustment performed by trained people. Large digital display of the changeover time helps changeover teams manage and improve the time it takes to perform a changeover. Additionally, significant waste is often produced during start-up. Track waste and develop improvement programs. |
| PRODUCT |
87/705 Programmable timer, 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 |
Pulp and Paper Customers
The following represents just of few of the many customers in the pulp and paper industry that we've helped with our solutions.
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• Avery Dennison |
• Procter & Gamble |
