The implementation of the maitm environmental suite has been a success at many companies as they seek to achieve sustained compliance and manage mission-critical information.  The case studies highlighted in this section are a testament to our ultimate success and provide valuable lessons learned in the pursuit of excellence in environmental management and quality.

IMPROVING PLANT EFFICIENCIES


Customer Pain:
A major manufacturing company was faced with the challenge of managing efficiencies at a local plant.  In summary, the plant manager had very little information available relating to specific  efficiencies at the plant level. Several of the many challenges he faced on a daily basis included problem such as the inaccurate recording of machine down time with specific reasons documented for the downtime (e.g., engineering or production), actions taken, and downtime frequency. All information was manually collected and recorded resulting in inaccurate existing records and tremendous inefficiencies at the local plant level.


Our Solution:
This major manufacturer employed the MAItm application suite to help effectively manage plant information and gain the intelligence needed to run the plant more efficiently.  With MAItm, the manufacturer was able to display real time information from production area to office environment and establish standard run rates for filling equipment. PLC code was written to monitor production units per minute.   MAI'stm user friendly web interface provided a seamless dashboard for the operator to record reasons for manual stoppages and corrective actions taken. 

 

Key Benefits To Client

Using the MAItm application suite, the manufacturer saved time and money and gained significant efficiencies in the overall management of the plant facility.  Specifically, the plant manager now had the ability to measure manual stoppages to the nearest second and categorize them accordingly. All stoppage reasons identified were categorized as quality, operational, IT, Engineering etc. for better focused responses.

 

Hourly efficiency tables were populated to show daily live performance providing real time intelligence for the plant manager. Also, the plant manager now has the ability to display  for supervisors and management actual plant conditions such as stopped /running /cleaning conditions.
 

An overall increase in production efficiency of 18% was realized during the first 6 months alone. Specific improvement plans to address bottleneck areas were implemented to further improve efficiencies on a continual basis.  Remedial actions could be implemented more quickly by Engineering through monitoring of the live data.