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News Release from: Girus Limited | Subject: T20 touch screen interface, Productivity Toolkit
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 January 2007
System Provides Label Production Real
Time Data
Field First - Label Access, the Bristol (UK) self-adhesive label manufacturer, has embraced new technology with a Girus system for shop floor productivity monitoring.
Field First - Label Access, the Bristol (UK) self-adhesive label manufacturer, has embraced new technology with a Girus system for shop floor productivity monitoring to ensure that its operation is as efficient as possible A few years ago the company relocated to new premises with ambitious plans for its future
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 10 Nov 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Now with its new factory layout, purposely designed to improve work flow and operate to lean manufacturing principles, Field First - Label Access is using the Girus T20 touch screen machine interface units to connect each of the company's five Mark Andy presses directly on to its computer network.
The T20 interface provides job information and running parameters directly to the operator at the printing machine and then monitors every metre of material used on the job and every second of machine activity.
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The data collected is continuously streamed back to the production managers' office, where productivity data can be viewed in real-time, or saved for reporting at a later time.
The Girus Productivity Toolkit is a suite of software tools designed to analyse and report on the data collected by the Girus system.
Apart from producing daily, or weekly productivity reports, the Girus Productivity Toolkit is claimed to produce utilisation reports that indicate the major reasons for waste, or lost time.
Additionally a graphical utility can show trends of key performance indicators helping focus on inefficiency and which enables measurement of the effectiveness of changes made to the production operation, said Girus.
Andy Bishop, operations manager at Field First - Label Access said: "We have always tried to work as efficiently as possible and we made a conscious effort earlier this year to fine tune our operating efficiency by reducing waste and downtime.
The problem I was faced with was that I had no reliable means to measure what was happening on the machines.
We had used written timesheets on the shop floor for years but with the best intensions of the operators, written timesheets just were not providing the level of information I needed." He explained: "Then I received a telephone call from Mike Young at Girus.
He introduced its new system for print machine productivity monitoring, offered me an on-site demonstration and sceptically, I agreed to take a look.
After just half an hour I was completely sold on the system, it was just what I was looking for." He said that within a few days of the system being installed, he was able to see how inaccurate the written time sheets were.
And he added: "Using the Girus Productivity Toolkit we can now tell exactly how many linear metres of material are consumed within each job and the times involved down to the last minute.
But more importantly for myself, I can see precisely the reasons why we have waste and lost time and we are seeing some rather interesting results.
Now I can see where we are inefficient I can do something about it.".
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