Our goal as a material handling equipment manufacturer is to help our clients make their processes more efficient. How do you measure that? Well, the proof is in the numbers. An engineering company that designs and manufactures steel automotive parts, came to us for conveyor help. We built them some customized powered extendable conveyor and roller conveyors, which were installed in October.
Since installation, our client's Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), which calculates how a machine is expected to run versus how it actually does run, for their machinery has improved by 25 percent, reporting over 95 percent OEE in November.
Our customers were thrilled with the improvements, saying their operators don't spend nearly as much time fighting with the machinery.
Running two jobs used to take 3 hours, Process Engineer Seth Monroe said, now it only takes 1.5 hours. That's a 50 percent improvement.
Maintenance has also become easier. Replacing the belts on the extendable conveyors used to take two to three hours. Now it takes 30 minutes.
"It takes longer to get the belts out of the crib than it does to replace them," Monroe said.
That's the kind of news we like to hear.