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Major Global Paper Manufacturer Standardizes on Proficy MES, Saving Millions Annually

Introduction

Industry

Pulp and Paper Manufacturing

Products

Proficy Plant Applications, CIMPLICITY

Product Categories

Proficy Smart Factory - MES Solutions, Proficy Historian

Challenges

  • Lack of understanding into production downtime
  • Product quality issues
  • Need for increased profit margins on high-volume products

Actions

Standardized on Proficy software at plants around the world – GE Digital’s Proficy Plant Applications) Production, Efficiency and Quality modules), Proficy Historian, CIMPLICITY HMI/SCADA, and Asset Performance Management

Results

  • Analytical tools resolve downtime issues, driving corrective actions
  • Software identified quality issues due to lines running too fast
    • Reducing speed decreased quality issues and increased OEE
  • Optimized inventory stock levels and improved profitability
  • At just one plant: 
    • $295K annual savings due to increased OEE on line 1 by 1.55%
    • $345K annual savings due to increased OEE on line 2 by 5.93%

Explore GE Digital's manufacturing solutions and services

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Industrial Apps

Proficy Plant Applications

Improve efficiency, production management and quality with a proven, modular MES for process, discrete and mixed manufacturing data.

Proficy Historian | Data Historian | GE Digital
Industrial Software

Proficy Historian

Powerful industrial time-series data collection for on-premise and cloud-based storage and analysis

Industrial manufacturing operator using GE Digital MES software
Industrial Apps

CIMPLICITY

Optimize operator efficiency with high performance HMI while reducing risk with proven visualization and SCADA