Mattec Improves Lean Manufacturing
Mattec Corporation, the world’s leading supplier of real-time production and process monitoring systems in the plastic’s industry, will be demonstrating ProHelp® EPM, Release 7.7 at the NPE Show in June, 2009. This release is now shipping.
This release contains a number of enhancements related to lean manufacturing, including the following:
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ProHelp EPM’s PCMIU software now contains a Visual Manufacturing Display in the PCMIU. The PCMIU is a software application that runs on a standard computer and allows the machine operators to easily enter scrap, select downtime reasons, and even to call for help. (See attached picture.)
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Takt Time Color-Coding. Takt time is the maximum time allowed to produce a product in order to meet the customer’s demand. In a lean manufacturing environment, it is the machine’s pace time. Users can now see a color-coded cycle time and a color-coded Takt Time for all machines in the facility. (See attached picture.)
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Kanban Scheduling. ProHelp EPM now offers two types of Kanban Scheduling, one that facilitates the manual billboard scheduling that is common in many factories and another that performs all of this scheduling electronically.
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Japanese Language Support. ProHelp EPM is now available in English, Chinese, Czech, German, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. (See attached picture.)
“We’ve had a lot of success selling into Japanese Manufacturing environments in recent years” said Brian Thiel, Mattec’s Development Manager. “These enhancements are a direct result of input from those customers.” Mattec previously announced that 2006, 2007, and 2008 have been the best years in the history of the company.
For more information: Brian Thiel, 1-800-966-1301, b.thiel@mattec.com