GIRUS - The
Key to Productivity Improvement
Improving shop floor productivity
and efficiency is one of the most important challenges facing
printing companies today. When statistics show that the
average printing shop floor is only 60-65% efficient when
measured against established Key Performance Indicators
(KPIs), we should all be concerned for two reasons;
1. The profitability
of our companies
2. The negative effect on our environment.
Quite simply the statistics
show that there is a significant amount of waste and inefficiency
in the pressroom, and improving this performance figure
up to 80-85% would have massive implications for margins
and profitability within your organisation.
The amazing thing is that
this extra productivity and profit is just sitting there,
hiding away amongst your daily production procedures and
processes, just waiting to be discovered. It is hiding in
your set-ups, in your run time, in your downtime and in
your reel changes, and it escapes your attention simply
because you cannot see it. It is called Inefficiency and
it is costing you big time.
So how can you see this
inefficiency? The answer in a single word: “Girus”.
Recognising this visibility
problem, Girus was created specifically to aid front line
print managers reduce waste, identify inefficiencies, improve
shop floor productivity and help create an environment of
lean manufacturing for printers.
Three steps
to seeing things the Girus way
- By simply retrofitting a Girus T20
batch counter to your existing machines and connecting
it up to a network, Girus unobtrusively monitors every
second of activity and every millimetre of material
on your printing machines, and streams this data back
to a central database.
- Girus will show you exactly where
you are wasteful and inefficient. A whole series of
productivity reports produced by Girus will be available
at the click of a mouse directly at your desktop PC
and will help you identify weaknesses in your manufacturing
process, highlight the main reasons for waste, highlight
inefficient jobs, highlight problematic processes and
much more, all with hard facts and figures.
- Once you have established the
reasons for waste and implemented production improvements,
Girus will serve as an ongoing measurement tool allowing
you to see the effectiveness of your procedural changes.
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