They now achieve overall machine utilization of over 68% and meet their production targets which has increased profitability so they can now invest in a new plant. MDC highlighted several problems in production, two of which were poor maintenance response and failure to replace tooling quickly enough to get the machine back in production.įollowing the MDC-Max installation the customer implemented several measures including a priority system for maintenance and availability of new pre-set tools. They were astonished to find that their machine utilization was below 50% but could not get an accurate picture of why this was happening.ĬIMCO MDC-Max was installed to monitor the machines along with bar code readers for the operators to swipe downtime codes. It was suggested that they check the runtime clocks on the machines for a week to see how much production time was being achieved.

CIMCO MDC-Max tracks reasons for machine downtime.Ī large aerospace contractor was concerned that their production was not keeping up with demand and had made the decision to buy several additional machines.

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