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Discrete Manufacturing

Situation - 

Discrete manufacturers have many and varied production stages main processing stages depending upon their actual products. These manufacturing types obtain maximum utilisation of automation and robotics. The original PLC was developed for this sector and delivers high performance, repeatability usually on a 24x7 basis. The industry’s challenge is to take the results of its manufacturing investment and assets and to continuously improve to stay competitive. Six Sigma, Lean, TPM and OEE are all rooted in the requirements of discrete manufacturing. The generic sector involves automotive manufacture, aerospace, components, sub-assemblies, white goods, electronic components and a myriad of other types. 
 
Problems-

Production efficiency, quality, traceability, utilisation, energy use, schedule adherence are all within the framework of discrete manufacturing operations. Discrete manufacturing offers high challenges with often 100’s of components being required to manufacture a single production unit.
 
Proven Solutions -

Discrete manufacturing companies will each have had improvement programs which offer much and often achieve much, but the acute problem is the overall complexity, thus improvement programs will typically fail once the time point arrives where the difficulty of achieving more is too costly and thought to be too complex. Detail is required which cannot be readily observed or recorded, IT automation can greatly assist in breaking through this barrier by automatically watching everything in high fidelity. Thus Lean Manufacturing and OEE initiatives can have a new lease of life which will deliver extra ROI on the initial asset investment. SPC and SQC systems that run in real time and can indicate operator actions.
 
The EmsPT Difference - 

EmsPT has a detailed understanding of the technologies and techniques that can be put into effect in a phased and controlled manner that will deliver measurable business benefits. The EmsPT DRIVE programme shows our working methodology and how this could be deployed to your benefit. Highly effective OEE and other systems have been deployed which significantly reduce the ‘increasingly difficult’ problems encountered in second year and beyond programs. 
 
EmsPT Solutions -

EmsPT DRIVE programme
MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems)
Performance Monitoring
Operations Management
Product Track and Trace (Traceability and Compliance)
Quality Management
Production Scheduling

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