GOAL · Proof with numbers and conditions.
AUDIENCE · Plant & production managers.
CTA LOGIC · Editorial heritage hero (H5). No CTA until the reader has the proof; then retrofit RFQ + engineer. Reading progress on the rail.
CASE 017
PACKAGING · AARHUS, DK · 12 MIN READ
How Holmgaard Packaging raised OEE from 71 % to 86 %
- CUSTOMER
- Holmgaard Packaging A/S
- SCOPE
- 2 cartoning lines
- PRODUCTS
- 6 × PX 120 · Connect
- DURATION
- 9 weeks, no line shutdown
PHOTO · Line 2 at Holmgaard, night shift, operator Signe at the HMI, cartons in motion blur
Two cartoning lines, 14 years old, running three shifts. Holmgaard's lines were reliable enough to keep, but not reliable enough to plan around. Unplanned stops ate one shift in seven.
The drive trains were the weak point. Six gearboxes from three suppliers, no spare parts on the shelf, and no data on why they failed. "We were replacing parts after they broke, never before," says plant manager Jens Holmgaard.
ST 010 · Find the bottleneck
Before touching hardware, our application engineers logged a week of machine states on Line 2. The filler wasn't the problem. The carton erector was: it stopped 23 times a shift, mostly for 2–4 minutes, and every stop starved the stations downstream.