Success Stories

Sharp Plastics

Explore Sharp Plastics, a Consumer Goods industry pioneer. Discover how they transformed their operations, achieving a 62% improvement in work time and a 15% reduction in downtime within just six months.

It was finally with the combination of the different implementation steps that, in the first 6 months, we had an improvement in average work time of 62% and a reduction in downtime of 15%.

Samuel Martinez

CEO

This system has allowed me, as the person in charge of the plant, to monitor our processes remotely. In addition, the alarm system that is included has allowed my technical team to act sooner and deal with unscheduled stops. A key point is the measurement of times and cycles. They have helped us measure productivity and make decisions on how to balance our work shifts and not increase fixed costs, as well as how to provide feedback to staff when the planned production is not achieved.

Jonathan Almaraz

Machine Supervisor

ROI and Performance Metrics

Production hours per machine

Increase: 20%

Idle Time

Reduction: 88%

Impact

Avg work time increase: 62%

Reduction in downtime: 15%

Client Profile

Facility Location
San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, MEXICO
Website
https://www.sharpplastics.com/
Industry
Consumer
Equipment Types
Plastic Injection Molding
Labeling

Challenges

The owner, living two hours away from the factory, was only receiving weekly reports on parts produced with no insights into the active status of machines or what parts were running.

Sharp Plastics

Strategy & Implementation

The strategy involved using an IoT device with a proximity sensor to measure each start and stop cycle and Bluetooth tracking on each injection mold. A cloud-based server was set up for access at the factory or off-premise.