Pursuing Paperless: Injection Molders Who Have Embraced Digitization
Read about injection molders who have shifted everything from quality control and scheduling to production and process monitoring to the digital realm.
In Axiom’s paperless facility, workers access Prism data on tablets throughout the plant. Source: Axiom Group Inc.
Shelves of three-ring binders are a familiar site at many injection molding facilities. Process documentation, quality records, maintenance files and more, printed for posterity, with data points isolated on a page.
Progressive molders are increasingly digitizing these data points, taking them out of the binder and off the paper and putting them into shared digital spaces where they can be instantly accessed and analyzed. Below find multiple examples of leading injection molders that have said goodbye to paper and hello to digitization.
Allegheny Performance Plastics Goes Digital for QC
This high-tech molder turned to 1factory's cloud-based manufacturing quality control software for streamlined, paperless quality systems.
1factory’s platform supports SPC and real-time data analytics. Source: 1factory
Paperless ‘Smart Factory’ Based on Automated Production Monitoring
Tier 1 automotive molder’s home-built production-monitoring and ERP systems, designed for “the little guy,” boost its efficiency rating and profits.
Before he even steps foot on the molding floor, Tessy’s Doug Jobe can see instantly how that day’s production is going via the wall-mounted monitor or his mobile-phone app. Source: Tessy Plastics
For Tessy Plastics, Less Paper + More Data=Higher Productivity
At the Lynchburg, Va., operation of Tessy Plastics, less paper has actually resulted in more data that’s more readily available, thanks to implementation of a fully integrated ERP and real-time process-monitoring system from IQMS.
Beyond the Work Center: Using MES for Data-Driven Decisions Across Manufacturing Operations
Move past “is the job running” and “will it finish on time,” and apply MES to inform workflows ranging from accounting, inventory control, planning, material logistics, quality assurance, engineering and shipping.
Plastikos’s Bentley with shared screen for every eight to 10 presses, here showing a mold sample sheet—part of the company’s push to go “paperless.”
Digital Manufacturing: Two Medical Molders Embrace Industry 4.0
‘Digitalization’ and ‘connectivity’ are loaded terms — shorthand for a whole new way of doing 大象传媒. It can’t be accomplished in one go. But two Midwest molders in the sensitive medical field are already feeling the benefits of their initial steps in that direction.
Production Monitoring Automates Diverse Corporate Technologies’ Planning, Operations
Intouch Monitoring tablets at ever press give DCT instant insight into a current production run. Source: Intouch Monitoring
DCT saves 60 man-hours per week by shifting from paper records and discrete spreadsheets to a shared, automatic production monitoring platform.
Process Monitoring or Production Monitoring — Why Not Both?
Molders looking to both monitor an injection molding process effectively and manage production can definitely do both with tools available today, but the question is how best to tackle these twin challenges.
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