What would a 10% increase in productivity mean for your business?

Installed in over 700 manufacturing facilities of all types and sizes, our clients realize at least a 10% improvement in productivity.

Meet the proven solution installed in every type of discrete-parts manufacturing process. Connect directly to all types of production equipment through a family of Machine / Operator Data Transducers (MDT). Match your data collection, data display, operator interface, and ERP integration requirements to individual machine functionality.

Reduce Fixed Labor Costs

By eliminating manual data collection, data review, and transcription / re-entry, associated fixed labor costs are immediately reduced. Production / productivity reports are automatically prepared by the system — in a format you want, whenever you specify.

"By eliminating manual data collection, data review and transcription/re-entry, associated fixed labor costs are immediately reduced. Production/productivity reports are automatically prepared by the system — in a format you want, whenever you specify."

Tom Goecke , Akro Mills

Effective Preventive Maintenance Programs

Calendar scheduling of preventive maintenance isn't efficient because it's based on "guesstimates" of run time and cycle count. Now you can schedule maintenance based on actual, automatically collected run time and number of cycles on a part / tool, reducing unplanned downtime.

"Reduced die maintenance resets due to the PM program has saved us almost $8,000 per year."

Dennis Herdegen , Operations Manager , Engineered Products Div. of ETCO, Inc.

Improved Manufacturing Productivity

By being able to accurately determine causes for downtime, management can direct resources to minimizing the causes.

"Overall plant uptime increased 11%."

Jesse Angel , Process Improvement Analyst , Inland Paperboard and Packaging

Enterprise-Wide Data Integration

System enables a bi-directional, automatic data link between the shop floor and scheduling / MRP II / MES / maintenance systems. The ability to send dispatch lists "down" and production data "up" makes the MRP II system more responsive and accurate. Users report electronically updating inventory records improves inventory accuracy by as much as 20%.

"By directly uploading production data from the machine monitors to the System/36, we've eliminated all the counting, manual keypunching, and paperwork."

Dennis Herdegen , Operations Manager , Engineered Products Div. of ETCO, Inc.

Automated Production Scheduling

By enabling production requirements to be automatically downloaded from the plant's production planning or MRP II system, the system calculates completion dates based on amount of production scheduled, machine setup / changeover time, individual machine efficiencies, and real-time information from currently running jobs. It also lets the scheduler run "what if" scenarios to see immediately the impact of rush orders and schedule changes.

"We've been able to give our customers real delivery dates and adhere to them. I don't know if you can put a price tag on that."

Armand Roy , Vice President of Engineering , Craft Inc.

Maintain Equipment Operating Efficiency at Maximum Capacity

Detect slowdowns, bottlenecks, and problems immediately — before production suffers — reducing the need for additional manufacturing capacity. System users report 5 to 15% productivity gains merely from monitoring the shop floor in real time.

"It was originally thought that this problem occurred once or twice an hour. It turns out that it was happening five times an hour with a loss of one hour of production per shift."

Chuck Ballaro , Information Systems , Captive Plastics

Eliminate Unnecessary Machine Adjustments

Operators and managers can see how long a machine takes to stabilize, so adjustments aren't made prematurely during stabilization periods or at shift / job / operator change. Displays of machine parameters eliminate machine setup guesswork and enable shift-to-shift consistency of settings.

"A 5% increase in productivity on 20 machines is equal to getting an extra machine for the cost of the system."

David Hidding , Plant Manager , Dana Molded Products

Improve Job Costing Accuracy

Manufacturers establish job standards but typically can't verify them against actual activities because no simple, cost-effective method exists. Machine Data Transducers provide automated, accurate collection of cycle time, run time, setup time, down time, production and reject counts, and labor hours — making job costing accurate.

"Managing our operations used to be difficult. Presses that were supposed to be running (especially full auto) many times were not, and often this went unnoticed. There is no longer unaccounted-for downtime because the information is automatically printed at the end of each shift."

Ronald Cecchi , Plant Manager , Korris Products, Inc.

Get Started Today

Meet the proven solution for all types of manufacturing environments and see how quickly your company can benefit from Advanced Scheduling, Shop Floor Data Collection, and MyFloorScore Analytics. Pick one or all three and put the power of Production Process to work for you.

Schedule a Demo