Operational Context & Challenge

A manufacturer in heavy industry with continuous production processes that has invested in automation still relied on human operators to perform equipment setup, maintenance, and changeovers. The challenge that they experienced was that their production equipment was sensitive to the work the human operators performed. Any manual operation performed incorrectly on the equipment would lead to the manufacture of defective products that either needed to be reworked or scrapped.

i-5O Solution Deployment & Impact

This manufacturer deployed i-5O to ensure that their human operators were adhering to all standard operating procedures when working on their production equipment. By decreasing errors in setup, maintenance, and changeovers, this manufacturer was able to reduce their scrap and rework rates.