Bursting With Production Efficiency: Operational Efficiency at Purity Soft Drinks
OEE improvement achieved in under three years
Additional cases produced per shift
Initial OEE increase achieved within the first three months
TrakSYS has finally allowed us to ditch our old, inaccurate manual data collection system. Finally, we have real-time performance information at our fingertips.
The Company
Purity Soft Drinks is a leading manufacturer of juices and juice drinks. As one of the oldest companies in the UK, the company started supplying soft drinks by horse-drawn dray in and around Wednesbury, where its drinks became a local favorite.
The Challenge
Purity Soft Drinks manufactures juice and juice drinks out of its facility in Wednesbury, West Midlands. As demand for its product continued to grow, the team at Purity realized they needed to implement a software solution to help streamline performance, elevate quality, and increase production capacity to meet rising demand.
Paper records, no efficient way to track OEE, no real-time method for analyzing available data, and excessive operator time spent manually categorizing downtimes were holding the team back from the accurate, real-time picture they needed.
The Solution
Working alongside Parsec Automation, LLC Strategic Partner ITI Group, Purity Soft Drinks began architecting a TrakSYS solution to help enable accurate quality management, increase capacity, improve return on assets, reduce operating and conversion cost per unit, and better manage capital.
Because TrakSYS uses a variety of industry-standard protocols to connect to existing infrastructure, ITI Group gave Purity Soft Drinks a solution that provided real-time insights into multiple machines on its PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) line, including the blower, filler, labeler, sleever, and palletizer. Leaving paper-based operations in the past, all operators, managers, and other designated parties can now view and manage production from any device, anywhere, anytime.
The Impact
Within three months, Purity Soft Drinks saw an average OEE increase of 4%, and went on to achieve an OEE improvement of nearly 20% in under three years. The team was able to produce 400 additional cases per shift.
TrakSYS helped the team effectively analyze losses, determine root causes, and take action, while creating live screens that provided feedback to both technicians and leadership.
TrakSYS highlighted some issues related to our conveyor and chronic minor stops in our labeler. Not only did TrakSYS highlight these issues, but it provided hard data for the business case to justify replacement of this equipment.
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