Oral Hygiene Products Manufacturer

Solution Overview

The manufacturer turned to GE Intelligent Platforms’ Proficy Batch and Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX software for its flexibility and state-of-the-art batch and visualization capabilities. It provided a robust set of tools, open architecture and easy-to-use graphical user interface to help create a more efficient and consistent production environment.

The manufacturer’s operators and supervisory staff have been able to leverage a common look and feel across many different recipes—eliminating confusion during the process and ensuring quality control. The solution also features robust alarming, trending, and analysis capabilities for better decision making and operational improvements.

Proficy has enabled the manufacturer to leverage faster new product introductions, quicker development of new recipes, increased batch-to-batch consistency, and better utilization of production assets—the advantages needed to gain market share.

Results

GE Intelligent Platforms’ Proficy software suite of solutions helped this manufacturer deliver results:

• 15% reduced batch cycle time
• 25% increased capacity of existing equipment
• 40% increased speed to market of new products