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Justifying the cost of a plant visibility solution
Gain tangible benefits from implementing an in-plant information solution in your food processing facility, including:
- Labour savings: Reduce rework, returns, and overproduction
- Inventory turnover savings: Improve stock rotation, reducing overstock
- Reduce scrapping of aged inventory: Serialized tracking by carton lets you know where every carton is, and lets you focus on moving products before they become too old to ship
- Save on capital investments: Ensure lines are running as efficiently as possible, so that you can produce more with your existing plant capacity
- Reduce giveaway: for standard weight products, ensure your shipments statistically comply with regulations regarding weight tolerances, while not giving away your profits.
- Reduce downtime: Be notified in real-time of events that shut down your line. Automatically notify the people responsible for keeping it running (eg: maintenance/IT), and escalate if the severity increases or no resolution is found within the expected time
- Reduce scope and risk of recalls: know what you shipped, and what went into each shipment so that if a product needs to be quarantined, only the suspect product is affected
Intangible benefits of increasing visibility are those strategic benefits that help you stay ahead of your competition:
- More informed decision making: Provide more accurate and more timely information to decision makers (eg: production management)
- Improve customer satisfaction: increased production and inventory visibility ensures your customer gets the correct shipment, on time. Happy customers will order more.
How to gain visibility?
Carlisle’s Symphony™ Plant Productivity Suite is the culmination of years of experience in providing production tracking systems for the food industry.
Plant managers know that to be competitive in today’s marketplace, you need access to the right information, at the right place, at the right time. Carlisle’s Informer Plant Visibility Suite provides plant managers and shift supervisors with the tools necessary to make better decisions now! This eliminates the guesswork and allows you to manage what you measure. It is not acceptable to find out tomorrow that you should have changed some things yesterday to improve profit margins.
Informer™ puts a suite of tools at your fingertips that allow you to increase your manufacturing productivity and efficiency by providing shop floor visibility and production control. Visibility is achieved through up-to-the-minute, meaningful production information presented via multiple, flexible delivery mechanisms. These range from our hardened Protector Series touch screen operator workstations and Innovative Web-Based Smart LED Displays, to Digital Dashboard Components to office staff or mobile workers. The Carlisle Information Portal delivers Web Reports Anywhere™ that you require.
The software also gives you firm control over the production process by managing the data flow to and from the plant as well as workstation control parameters. Informer is an essential component of a total Plant Data Management solution for weighing, labeling, production and productivity reporting and yield analysis. Informer provides many benefits such as:
- Visibility of production, productivity, yields, giveaway, downtime, production schedules
- Multiple user interfaces from shop floor via digital dashboards and innovative Web-Based Smart LED Displays
- Web Reports Anywhere™
- Control product compliance labeling and production process parameters via web applications from any browser you can gain access to.
- Increase plant efficiency by effectively managing issues through EARS™ – Carlisle’s Event Alerting and Response System which provides real time monitoring of reportable conditions, coupled with customer defined responses
- Scalability to suit any plant
- Integrates with Carlisle’s InSight – Wireless Warehouse Management & Inventory Control Solution which provides a real-time build of serialized cartons into inventory
- High-performance SQL databases, thousands of transactions per minute
- Scheduling component to manage data collection and end-of-day windows
- Polled or unsolicited data collection from multiple shop floor peripherals
