Increasing Efficiencies with Returnable Asset Tracking WHITE PAPER
OEE is calculated based on a machine’s availability, performance rate and quality rate with average values between 60% and 85%. To maximize performance rate, the machine needs to be consistently supplied with raw materials, the machine cannot experience unplanned downtime, and the machine must have somewhere to store production output.
In the case of raw materials and finished goods, suppliers and OEMs regularly use dedicated shipping containers, also called dunnage. And in industries with high value products, such as automotive manufacturers and the Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers that feed them, specialty shipping containers aren’t an option, they’re a requirement.
Today, the relationship between Tier 2 component suppliers to Tier 1 assemblers, and Tier 1 assemblers and automotive OEMs isn’t solely dependent on providing materials in a timely manner, but they must be delivered in specific orientations, and with the highest, defect-free quality expectations. To accomplish this, automotive suppliers regularly spend considerable resources to develop custom containers to protect their products and offer plug-and-play compatibility with the Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing processes championed by automotive OEMs as well as most other manufacturers.
Racks holding doors or car windshields may cost $5,000 or more per container, consuming considerable resources. But the true liability to the manufacturer doesn’t just lie with the loss of an expensive container, but by the potential for interrupting production efficiency, resulting in delayed orders, damaged brands and potentially lost customers.
Returnable asset tracking systems offer a solution to both asset allocation and productivity interrupters. By using commonly available tracking methods – ranging from manual scanning of barcodes to fully automated RFID, Bluetooth and GPS tracking systems – manufacturers can cost-effectively protect valuable assets, and even more valuable customer supply chains and relationships.
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