Case Studies / RPC Case Study
Rigid Plastic
Company
Understanding Challenges As Opportunities
The Rigid Plastic Company faced challenging and increasing delivery costs. Unable to identify the root causes for unexpected downtime, machines often had to be shut down for long periods leading to high levels of waste, increased costs and a negative impact on quality and equipment effectiveness.
Unplanned Downtime
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Frequent and unplanned downtimes were often difficult to predict with no clearly identifiable root cause.
High Levels of Case
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Downtime led to high levels of waste across the production and manufacturing process.
Lower Levels of Quality
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Quality and overall equipment efficiency was low and needed to be optimised.
How O3 Enabled Smarter Manufacturing
We deployed the following solutions to help RPC achieve the desired results:
O3 Advanced Analytics
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To identify key process parameters and their effect on quality. These provided operators with early warnings against breakdowns, to ensure corrective actions and reduce unplanned downtime.
Production
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To connect and monitor its utilities and machines, this provided visibility into key parameters at each stage of utility operations.
O3 Progressive and Autonomous Maintenance
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To take proactive actions before failure, and streamline the maintenance process.
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Discover The Results
The Commercial Printing Company were able to exceed their targets and improve their performance and key parameters, most notably:
21%
Reduction in Unplanned Downtime
6.0%
Reduction in Waste
60.0%
Reduction in Customer Complaints
90.0%
Improved Delivery Performance