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News Release from: Harford Control | Subject: Harford Toolbox
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 January 2006
Eliminate risk / eliminate waste, in
your factory
This subject should focus business minds on the unnecessary levels of waste and risk in food, drink, dairy, pharmaceutical and personal-care production environments
This subject should focus business minds on the unnecessary levels of waste and risk in food, drink, dairy, pharmaceutical and personal-care production environments Factory, mission-critical risks include EPWs - Emergency Products Withdrawals - caused by coding/labelling/packaging supply-chain errors in production
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 11 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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A new, turnkey, production line, performance-measurement package is now available, requiring little factory resource, before generating major operational benefits
With frequent product changeovers this is an ever present risk, especially during production peak periods.
Financial penalties from major customers can attract.
* a fine (GBP40K?).
* Loss-of-profits compensation (GBP20K?).
* Dumping/Replacing faulty product plus attendant transport costs (GBP30K?).
* PR damage to your reputation (GBP10K?) and so on.
The loss-of-face associated with such a financial loss means many factories only internally acknowledge the initial GBP40K fine.
Further unnecessary waste surrounds the subtleties of Asset Management and Downtime/OEE inefficiencies.
This form of waste, although serious, tends to be allowed to continue due to the lack of reliable supporting data, or such data arriving too late for effective action.
Manual paper records carry insufficient detail and are of dubious accuracy.
Harford collect reliable, realtime data, automatically, which is analysed immediately for prompt action.
Another underestimated level of waste is overfill at filling/packing stages.
High output lines quickly give-away high levels of unnecessary waste, often on low-value-added products, requiring every bit of profit available.
Mature SPC routines can virtually eliminate such waste by introducing easy-to-use routines for operators.
All this is achievable without risk of Trading Standards Reference Test failures.
All Harford routines provide realtime performance analysis (KPIs), which can be acted upon quickly with the advantage of a clear unambiguous picture of what the problem is about.
There are many other solutions available from the Harford Toolbox.
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