How to Cut Costs and Keep Your Chemical Production Line Moving

HOW TO CUT COSTS AND KEEP YOUR CHEMICALPRODUCTION LINE MOVING

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE ABOUT HOW WELL YOUR CODER PERFORMS?

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The truth is, unreliable coders create a bottleneck in production, stopping production every time there is a breakdown or coding error. The result is excessive downtime, increasing your cost per product.



Excessive downtime is especially harmful to profits in the UK chemicals industry, which is set to grow by 15.4% by 2018 and accounts for £5bn per year of trade surplus.

EXCESSIVE DOWNTIME

15.4% £5bn by 2018 per year of trade surplus


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PROFIT MARGINSProfit margins remain slim due to rising energy costs and stricter emissions targets. On top of this, the chemicals market remains volatile as many chemical buyers are in industries who have seen declines due to the economic downturn.

RISING ENERGY COSTS STRICT EMISSIONS VOLATILE MARKET



COSTS NEED TO BE KEPT AS LOW AS POSSIBLE, MEANING THE PRODUCTION LINE NEEDS TO KEEP MOVING.



USE A CODER THAT SUITS YOUR PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT




Picking the right coder is essential to ensure it has the reliability and flexibility to operate under the conditions in your production facility and meet your production targets.

Costs can also be reduced by replacing pre-printed packaging with a case coder, saving on storage costs and eliminating delays in production due to insufficient stock.

CHOOSING THE RIGHT CODER


EASE OF USE WAS AN IMPORTANT FACTORfor Cedesa, a glue contract packer based in the UK. They needed to achieve reliable coding for eight hours a day, ten items per minute. The CJ400’s simple touch screen user interface ensured quick set up and switching between product runs.

OUR CASE STUDY

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Other manufacturers or contract packers may require a coder to operate reliably in a dusty, wet or clinical production environment.

IP55 rated coders protect against ingress of water, whilst IP65 rated coders protect against dust

DUSTY


WET


Linx’s Voice of Customer research in 2014 suggests that the key drivers behind coding purchases in the chemical manufacturing industry include controlling costs from unnecessary downtime and missed production targets.



Linx printers help to control costs with:

LONG SERVICE INTERVALS

SELF-SERVICE OPERATIONS

CONTINUAL RELIABLE OPERATION



Reduced set up time can also help reduce downtime, particularly for users who need to switch between product runs at multiple times per day. The ability to store multiple messages, and settings for several production lines makes a coder very flexible and

helps to reduce time during product changeovers



Ease of use is another area that can speed up set up time. Linx coders feature easy to use interfaces, allowing for multiple messaging and codes to be set

up in no time at all, avoiding scappage costs through the

wrong message being selected. Eg Linx CJ400 - touch screens

with simple prompts enable one-step code set-up. Plus

step by step message creation and editing without the need for

manuals or training



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Reduced set up time can also help reduce downtime, particularly for users who need to switch between product runs at multiple times per day.

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How to Cut Costs and Keep Your Chemical Production Line Moving