Unilever

Unilever accelerates Total Productive Maintenance initiative with Solarsoft

"While collecting accurate data and generating reports are important steps to improving efficiencies, the ability to leverage this information into a focused improvement process is where the tire meets the road. Using the Solarsoft information in a CapDO (Check, Analyze, Plan, Do) process helps plant personnel to focus on priority issues that deliver bottom line results,” comments Terry Herber, Manager of Industrial Engineering.

For more than two years, Unilever has been implementing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) but found manually collected data was hard to use. Solarsoft's Informance EMI enterprise manufacturing intelligence solution has enabled the manufacturing plants to target and prioritize opportunities for productivity improvement.

Informance EMI allows Unilever to identify factors causing manufacturing downtime. In addition, Informance EMI allows manufacturers to simultaneously monitor and analyze data from multiple lines and multiple stations in real-time.

Informance EMI has been rolled out division-wide in more than 15 plants to date. The integration of Informance EMI into existing systems also made implementing TPM much easier by focusing Unilever's Continuous Improvement effort and allowing for fact-based decision making.