SET UP TIME COST FOLDING CARTON MANUFACTURERS $20K PER YEAR
Reduce Make Ready Time and Increase Margins
Time is precious when you’re changing jobs on the production floor, we get it. With the investment in your machines and staff, the only time you’re making money is when they are running. If you can improve your pace of job set up, you can improve your margins and reduce time.
Simplifying the process of tracking machine status and counting units as they are produced will allow your operators to remain focused on manufacturing a quality product. Automating the collection process is a huge time saver and can reduce human errors. What if you had a way to analyze shop-floor data at the end of the run, job, or shift?
We’ve seen many folding carton manufacturers run into this same issue time and time again. They are losing margin and billable hours when stopping production to document production details at the end of each job. Since equipment is becoming so automated and efficient, reducing as much downtime as possible between jobs to make more money.
We did the comparison to see where we could help manufacturers save more money. Those who have the tools to analyze their actual performance of manufacturing orders can shave about 3 minutes off every make ready.
CartonERP captures run times, operator names, materials used, actual piece counts, and so much more. Data is automatically saved, stored and made available for staff throughout the facility. We can even tie into other data collection units, capture environmental conditions, and other useful information.
It’s all about communication and accurate data. These things play a huge role in improving processes to be more efficient and profitable. And this, is how you could bill nearly $20k more per work center by improving your set up times from job to job throughout the day.
Where did we get our numbers from?
- An average of about $8.30/ job to change or make ready based on an hourly employee rate
- Sale price of $550/hour to run a job on machine
- Average of 3 job changes per day
- Equals about $19,000 per year for operators to fill out paperwork