Smart use of monitoring and control technology has enabled Heroux-Devtek to eliminate bottlenecks, help its coders do their job much faster, and speed up programming of its industrial machine tools and robots by as much as eight times.
According to John Rattray, a senior executive with Memex Automation, “Success with Memex Products and Services uniquely increases efficiency to monitor and control machine tools. We are delighted to share immediate visibility of production status and comprehensive data collection to Wentworth Mould and Die which realize a competitive advantage.
Sébastien Caron, Plant Manager with Héroux-Devtek raved about Memex noting, “Our biggest differentiator is productivity. “We had passive OEE and now we have active OEE (overall equipment effectiveness.) The key to better productivity is not just to track performance, but to act on problems in real-time. We now have a tool to communicate to the people on the shop floor that our performance can improve. Customers can see and believe in what we’re doing to improve on time delivery. The OEE data provided improves human as well as machine-to-machine communications. We believe we can use Memex data to motivate employees with a shared understanding of how we can be more productive, and that’s what it’s all about.”
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