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Packaging, Printing & Labeling

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Streamlining Packaging for Efficiency

The optimization of packaging processes involves a comprehensive strategy aimed at minimizing costs, enhancing product quality, and improving overall yield by optimizing changeovers, reducing defects, improving yield, reducing external rejects, reducing reclaim/regrind, and reducing energy consumption.

Maximizing Equipment Efficiency

Enhancing packaging asset utilization involves a strategic focus on boosting internal capacity. This is achieved by implementing improved scheduling logic, optimizing Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE), increasing internal capacity through improved scheduling logic, and reducing changeovers and make-ready; maintenance excellence.

Boosting Competitiveness with Digital Manufacturing

Embracing digital manufacturing and automation is essential for staying competitive. This involves developing digital transformation roadmaps, selecting the right technologies, and managing pilot projects. By integrating cutting-edge technology, we drive sustainable productivity gains, foster data-driven decision-making, and enhance customer satisfaction with remarkable efficiency.

Building Resilient and Cost-Effective Operations

Understand the cost to serve, implement resiliency measures, robust S&OP process, risk analysis, network analysis, facility planning, and relocation. By leveraging data-driven insights and automation, we enhance efficiency, reduce disruptions, and build a resilient, agile supply chain.

Strengthening Workforce Through Talent Management

Building robust internal talent management programs is essential to nurture and retain skilled employees by assessing existing resources, developing leaders within the organization, and strategically embedding resources to support key initiatives. Improvements in recruitment and retention strategies contribute to building a strong and capable workforce.

Enhancing Capacity and Integration for New Growth

Create capacity for new products by optimizing existing processes and infrastructure to accommodate innovations. Improving process capability for new product development ensures a seamless integration of new offerings into the market. Furthermore, providing operational support for acquisitions is crucial for successful integration and scaling of business operations.

Aligning KPIs and Strategies for Continuous Improvement

Creating and aligning Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure and track essential metrics, and goal deployment strategies to ensure that organizational objectives are cascaded throughout all levels. Focus on problem-solving methodologies contributes to continuous improvement. Sustainment efforts are crucial for maintaining the effectiveness of implemented systems over the long term.

Case Study

High volume, low margin operation saves almost $1 million with a 30% improvement in productivity in just over six months.

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