If you could identify potential failures in your equipment and speed response time by 40%, how many more products could you produce? That was the question Busse/SJI, a division of Arrowhead Systems, asked when they partnered with Emerson on a new palletizer system that could increase production of aluminum cans and containers.
The aluminum container industry is under great pressure to increase capacity. Demand for cans for soda, seltzer, water, beer and wine exceeds 350 billion cans annually while the current capacity is only 285 billion cans. Arrowhead Systems, Inc. currently provides many of the high-speed palletizers used by packaged goods producers and these palletizers operate at some of the highest speeds in the industry – over 4,000 cans per minute. A key strategy for increasing container capacity is to reduce waste and inefficiency caused by production slowdowns and unplanned shutdowns. Any increase in efficiency in any step through the production process can impact the final output. This was the strategy Arrowhead was determined to take.
Arrowhead Systems worked with Emerson to develop a health monitoring solution to improve efficiency and uptime of the assets. The new solution captures key performance indicators (KPIs) and is based on Emerson Movicon.NExTTM software running on PACSystemsTM RXi2-BP edge device. How Emerson and Busse/SJI were able to achieve the very challenging goal is chronicled in this Proven Result.