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See how leading manufacturers are improving their operations and shaping the future of manufacturing. These stories show how teams use Guidewheel, the practical operating platform for manufacturing, to connect machine data, act on production losses, and carry improvements across shifts and plants.

Weatherables Boosts OEE by 12% with Guidewheel

By getting real-time visibility into production and uncovering hidden inefficiencies, Weatherables unlocked a 12% lift in OEE and transformed how their extrusion team operates.

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Weatherables Boosts OEE by 12% with Guidewheel

By getting real-time visibility into production and uncovering hidden inefficiencies, Weatherables unlocked a 12% lift in OEE and transformed how their extrusion team operates.

Graphyte uses real-time data to power growth with Guidewheel

Learn how a carbon removal innovator uses Guidewheel to act on daily improvements, empower frontline teams, and support rapid scale-up.

Fibrix Filtration achieves 92% uptime annually with Guidewheel

Fibrix Filtration reported 92% uptime for an entire calendar year with Guidewheel, using daily data reviews to focus team action.

Pack Labs reduces downtime by 40% in just six months

Pack Labs reported a 40% reduction in downtime in six months with Guidewheel, using trend reviews and shared efficiency goals to guide improvement.

Seacast gets fast time to value with 30 machines live in under one month

Seacast replaces error-prone, manual processes for tracking capacity and utilization with real-time insights from Guidewheel.

Cantex improves efficiency and CapEx decision-making with Guidewheel

Guidewheel shows Cantex how they’re performing against production targets, helps them coach the team effectively, and equips them to make data-driven CapEx decisions.

Onduline reduces energy consumption and cost while boosting OEE

See how Onduline uses machine-level energy and uptime data to find unnecessary power use, support OEE tracking and guide operating changes.

Custom Engineered Wheels: Creating alignment and transparency at every level

CEW uses Guidewheel to support an aligned, transparent culture: “Each teammate understands how their work drives the success of the organization.”

Thermopak Limited Drives Sustainability and Efficiency with Guidewheel

See how Thermopak moved from manual tracking to machine data for energy monitoring, production issues and operating decisions across its plants.

Pretium optimizes production and lowers energy consumption across 25+ locations

With one shared view of every site, Pretium's teams act on what is happening now and carry what works from plant to plant.

Cosmos Pharmaceuticals Improves Productivity by 50%

Cosmos reports a 50% productivity improvement and a 45% reduction in energy intensity through continuous monitoring and improvement with Guidewheel.

Nice House of Plastics reduces weekly idle time by 67% with Guidewheel

Nice House of Plastics reduced weekly idle time by 67% with Guidewheel, tracking equipment trends and sharing progress against its goals.

IndustryWeek highlights how Penn Color uses Guidewheel to increase asset utilization by one-third

Read IndustryWeek's 2022 story on how Penn Color used Guidewheel's production data to increase asset utilization by one-third.

Penn Color increases asset utilization by over 30% with Guidewheel

Penn Color reports 30–35% higher equipment utilization across its U.S. plants and uses Guidewheel data to review capacity and growth decisions.

RAPAC uses Guidewheel to reduce scrap and improve quality

See how RAPAC uses machine patterns and alerts to investigate potential quality issues and reduce scrap, with examples from its extrusion process.

Bednark finds data driven insights for resource planning and CapEx decisions from Guidewheel

Case study: “We're going to continue seeing labor shortages and challenges, but the only solution isn’t just to hire people, it's reconfiguring your workflows based on operational data in order to maximize the resources that you have.”

Production, finance and maintenance cut downtime 50%: 6.8 hrs/day to 3.4 hrs/day per machine

Over the course of five months, the team worked together across these three departments - production, finance, and maintenance - to reduce downtime across their machines from an average of 6.8 hours/day per machine to 3.4 hours/day. This 50% reduction in lost production time resulted in a meaningful improvement in throughput and margin.

Building momentum with initial wins to reduce downtime by 62%

Learn how a team started with a five-minute downtime goal, used alerts and operator reasons, and expanded daily improvement across its plant.

Plastic packaging manufacturer improves quality and OEE using Guidewheel

Learn how a plastic packaging thermoformer uses Guidewheel downtime data and scoreboards to identify OEE losses and investigate quality problems.

Tile & Carpet Ltd. achieve ongoing 10% savings with Guidewheel

In this 2020 customer video, Hitendra Verma explains how Tile & Carpet uses Guidewheel for ongoing savings and oversight across manufacturing facilities.