Spring Manufacturing
Spring Manufacturing Case Study: Real Time Analytics for Downtime Tracking with Reasons for a Spring manufacturer using IMS.
Use Case:
Downtime & Changeover tracking on Automatic Spring Manufacturing company for Coiling and Forming Machines.
Customer Profile:
Spring Manufacturer in Northern India with Automatic Spring Manufacturing Machines in their plant. Multiple shift operations trying to achieve Operational Excellence
Challenge:
Customer has multiple Coiling and Forming machines, that forms a significant part of the process. Also customer felt that these were perhaps bottle-neck operations. As the customer manufactured different types of springs for various industrial applications, it meant quite a few changeovers and also downtimes. To better manage operations the management wanted to monitor the downtime to improve changeovers and downtime.
Solution Approach:
- Use of Computer Visionfor images of actual production captured by CCTV Camera.
- AI/MLdriven algorithms computing the data on Cloud based Servers or Edge Servers to churn out real time analytics and alerts.
- Dashboards created on ManufApp’s app and available on multiple devices to spot trends and access archived data.
- Through an app, Supervisors can now fill the downtime reasons and proper “Corrective & Preventive Action- CAPA” can be taken.
Benefits:
- No intervention with actual production and also existing machineries.
- Data Analysis and insights with 98-99%accuracy levels.
- Heightened awareness of downtime tracking leading to significant reduction in idle time.
- All of this for no significant up-front cost.