Danpres – Boosting Production by Reducing Tool Repair Time by 50%

Danpres Insights from two weeks of production – week 35 and 36.

Stop reasons for tool repair have been put into Opticloud by operators at Danpres. The total time for tool repair for the two weeks was 17 hours. This information in Opticloud is often valuable information in the work to bring down the amount of tool repair.

If the amount of tool repair is reduced by 50%, 8.5 production hours are freed up every other week. This translates to 17 production hours freed up per month.

Furthermore the number of items are also counted in Opticloud. It gives information about the production volume.

The monthly freed-up production time is multiplied by the average number of items produced per hour during weeks 35 and 36, resulting in the following annual output:

17 [hours] x 936 [avg. items per effective hour] = 15,912 items.
This yields an annual additional item output of 190,044 items.

In this example, the time spent on tool repairs is halved and converted into effective operating hours for item production. This means that when time is no longer spent on repairing tools, it is instead used for production.

By halving the time spent on tool repairs, downtime is reduced, and more effective operating hours are gained during already scheduled production time.

Additionally, it can be argued that reducing tool repair time by half could also save costs on labor hours in the maintenance department.

Tim Østergaard
Supply Chain Manager, Danpres