Plant Efficiency

Performance optimization and waste minimization, the key to the competitiveness of manufacturing plants

Efficiency as optimization of the use of resources

In any manufacturing process two main types of waste can be considered: time and material.

  • The reduction of productive time losses must be managed from both a proper preventive and corrective maintenance plan and from an optimum management of changes, availability of materials, effective communication flows,…
  • Good material waste management starts with understanding the ‘real or true cost’ of material which ends up as waste. You need to factor in the energy used to process the material on site, the handling and storage costs associated with the waste materials and the purchase price of the unused materials. And not only this: the opportunity cost or, in other words, the expected benefit from the waste generated.

Additionally, the optimization of plant efficiency must be faced considering  the speed of machines – in relation to best practices – and the generation of second qualities.

In the optimization of plant efficiencies, Dredex attack all these aspects from a three-sided prism:

Control System
Operational controls, fulfillment and monitoring, standardization,...
Plant Management
Production planning, analysis of machine speeds, assessment of daily non-productive times, product changeover process, availability of materials,...
Facility Maintenance
Experts required, task repetition frequency, impact of failures on production, review of prev/corr plans,...
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