Company Profile
Panpak is a Coca
Cola bottling company subsidiary which produces PET Plastic Bottles
(polyethylene terephthalate) in Greenore, Co Louth. This is done through
a process of Injection Moulding, Blow Moulding and Thermoplastic Blow
Moulding.
Situation
Panpak have
multiple production lines. There were operator stations in each of
production areas and in the QA lab for recording samples of preforms and
bottles on paper. These records include attributes, preform thickness,
preform weight, bottle base weight, bottle height and diameter, peak
vertical load and bottle capacity. A variety of instruments perform the
measurement including balances, force gauges, burst testers, perform
profilers and bottle profilers. Pankpak required a solution to
electronically collect data from these various instruments, perform
statistics and to store quality data for each product type and to
display SPC charts for each product type.
Solution
Measuresoft
developed a solution based around it’s standard ScadaPro package to
acquire the data from various instruments and to store the data.
Measuresoft developed a front end application for use in the production
areas and in the laboratory for selecting product type and for co-ordinating
the collection, statistical calculation and storage of quality data. A
workstation running ScadaPro is provided in each of the production areas
in and in the laboratory. The data is logged via Access and is
replicated on a scheduled basis to a central server. The workstations
and servers are connected via a wireless LAN which was supplied and
installed by Measuresoft and which allows data to be transferred between
buildings. SPC charts are provided via the versatile trending facility
in ScadaPro.
Benefits
An highly ergonomic solution is
provided for sampling by operators on the factory floor.
Data from factory floor is
accessible wirelessly.
A single software application
and interface is used to acquire information from a wide variety of
devices.
A complete information archive
is available for traceability and quality auditing purposes.
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