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Process Monitoring and Optimisation
News Release from: Harford Control | Subject: SPC
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 November 2004
Stop high-speed lines making high-speed
rejects!
Harford Control apply statistical process control techniques (SPC) transparently to any production filling line in the Food, Drink, Toiletry and Cosmetic industries, to improve operations
Harford Control apply statistical process control techniques (SPC) transparently to any production filling line in the Food, Drink, Toiletry and Cosmetic industries After a high value investment to fill and pack fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), you still need operators to control your process without unnecessary wastage
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 26 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Harford's SPC algorithms automatically prompt operators with adjustments which take full account of process capability.
In other words operators only receive realistic adjustment prompts and as infrequently as possible.
Free on-site process-capability studies are available, on request, to highlight any missed opportunities.
For example if two lines are filling the same product, but one suffers variations up to 2g the other one up to 6g, the operator adjustment requests made, will relate to each line's capability.
Operators cannot, of course, adjust out the engineering limitations of the line with poor reproducibility, and make a silk purse out of a sow's ear!.
A 10,000 packs per hour line, overfilling 2g per pack, produces about 200,000 packs per day, or over 1,000,000 per week.
That 2g overfill becomes 2 tons of extra product per week to process, just to give it away to the consumer.
At 25p per kg, this will cost GBP500 per week on a single line, yet many lines run much faster.
For GBP500 per week you could rent/buy a GBP100,000 solution for the whole factory, covering all lines, with traceability, downtime analysis, OEE, quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA), included, to guarantee continuous improvements.
We have customers who have topped GBP1,000,000 in savings using SPC.
You bought a high-speed line to be more productive, why not go the extra mile and make more profit from your supermarket own label, contracts?.
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