Recently highlighted FactoryOps use cases

Several publications recently highlighted use cases and value achieved with Guidewheel:

Plastics Technology published a detailed article by Matthew Naitove on How Production Monitoring Can Make You a Better Processor, including numerous specific examples. Highlights include:

• The benefits of real-time alerts for quickly addressing and even preventing problems

• How shared visibility can make meetings more efficient

• Tips for increasing team productivity through friendly competition

• Impact for auxiliary equipment and sustainability improvement

Plastics Today featured Guidewheel in an article by Geoff Giordano, “Yes, You Can Teach an Old Machine New Data-driven Tricks.” Giordano describes:

• How FactoryOps has made it much faster and easier to extract meaningful process data from machines of all ages

• Examples of how real-time data can inform important decisions such as CapEx

Examples of how FactoryOps systems like Guidewheel can be applied to improve changeovers were also highlighted in Smart Industry, “How FactoryOps can change your changeover inefficiencies.” Key takeaways include:

• Changeovers are often one of the greatest and fastest levers impact the bottom line in manufacturing, through directly reducing wasted time as well as through enabling smaller batch sizes that can dramatically improve flexibility and responsiveness to demand.

• Applying straightforward continuous improvement methodology to changeovers can result in significant reductions in waste, such as reducing WIP by 78%.

• Specific methods to reduce changeovers have become more accessible than ever, from using data to compare and facilitate cross-training among operators, to measuring and scaling the impact of best practices such as checklists.

If you have requests for other use cases you’d like to see highlighted. or would like to submit examples of how you have been using and benefiting from Guidewheel, please email info@guidewheel.com.