Improve Efficiency

Improving shop floor productivity through data and analytics is the first step in real-time monitoring. Manufacturing productivity solutions like Mingo can supply the resources needed to collect valuable data that can identify areas for improvement, maximize resources, and provide ongoing visibility into the factory floor.

• Identify trends
• Track key metrics
• Increase throughput
• Reduce waste
• Decrease downtime
• Integrate with maintenance seamlessly
• Reduce costs
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With Mingo, you can be online within a day and one step closer to a truly efficient shop floor. Begin collecting data on when machines are running and when they aren’t, performance, quality, and availability metrics, OEE, and so much more.

Plastic manufacturing software can be the solution to the challenges you face on the plant floor. 

There are many benefits in implementing a manufacturing productivity solution as we mentioned above, but specifically, we’ve written out a few examples to show how.

Example 1: Consider a plastics mold that has 2 cavities and can create 2 bottles at a time. With Mingo, you can track that the machine cycled, and a machine makes 2 bottles. Note: The number of bottles in this scenario is just an arbitrary number, but the takeaway is that by using software, we can count both molds and parts, and track the cycles. 

Example 2: With Mingo, you will be able to track process data like pressure, vibration, or temperature. If a temperature dips below a recommended level, the software can alert you in real-time.

Mingo has a mobile app available for both Android and iPhone users. Production teams can see availability, performance, and quality metrics, as well as receive alerts of problems on the floor.  The app gives manufacturers the ability to respond to real-time issues, immediately, rather than later when it’s too late.

In addition to a mobile app, production teams can receive daily production reports and alerts via email, as well as see performance metrics via various visual management tools like scoreboards, dashboards, and operator screens, all of which provide a complete view into the plant.

Manufacturing is in the middle of an evolution. As big data grows in many industries, manufacturers are beginning to implement and use a variety of software designed to create a smart, connected factory. Looking back, the industry has grown tremendously since the first synthetic polymer was invented in 1869. Today, plastics and injection molding manufacturing are worth roughly $96 billion. How does the industry continue to transform and grow? The answer is the use of data to improve and grow the plant.

Look around and you’ll see plastic everywhere – product packaging, medical devices, water bottles, the list is never-ending. Plastic is the third-largest manufacturing industry in the U.S. Yet, on the plant floor where those plastics are produced, most manufacturers have very little visibility into the efficiency of those processes.

With the sheer amount of products containing plastic, there needs to be a way to ensure the plant is running as productive and efficient as possible. The challenge of visibility is solved with manufacturing productivity software. Knowing when machines are up or down, replacing paper and Excel-based reporting, and being able to see and stop problems as they’re happening gives plastics manufacturers the ability to make data-driven decisions.