Canplas

Two decades of continuous improvement at Canplas

Canplas uses Solarsoft to remove the guesswork of its family parts environment which, at times, involves the simultaneous production of as many as 16 discrete part numbers in a single mold. Solarsoft tracks and keeps history of each and every cycle of each and every machine for each part.

Canplas manufactures injection-molded plumbing, ventilation and vacuum fittings for the North American construction and home-improvement markets. For over 20 years the company has leveraged the real-time production and process monitoring capabilities of Solarsoft's Mattec MES solution for its facilities in Barrie, Ontario.

Canplas uses Solarsoft's Mattec MES to monitor the productivity of manual processes. Mattec MES also assigns cycle times to manual processes, such as the assembly of sub-components and components.

With Solarsoft's Mattec MES solution, Canplas has seen:

• 1% decrease in downtime over the past 3 years
• 1% increase in OEE over the past 3 years
• Reduced scrap from 5% to less than 2%.

Canplas also uses the real-time reports generated by Mattec to monitor the difference between the number of good parts produced and boxed at each machine and the number of parts shipped out of the warehouse.