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Jabil Packaging Solutions Leveraging IQMS to Stay on Top of Plant Floor Operations
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries
- Consumer Goods
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Manufacturing System Automation
- Predictive Maintenance
Services
- Data Science Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Jabil Packaging Solutions (JPS), a provider of precision molded plastic products, was facing dynamic changes in the healthcare and packaging markets. Technologies, regulations, patient and consumer behaviors, population demographics, and business models were all experiencing transformation, making the future of healthcare difficult to predict and navigate. In 2013, Nypro was acquired by Jabil to provide new long-term solutions for Jabil customers as well as to continue to serve Nypro’s diversified customer base. When JPS was acquired by Jabil, they moved to SAP, which was their core enterprise system; but they wanted to keep the real-time manufacturing enterprise system (MES) software they had been using. JPS Iowa had been using the complete IQMS solution for nearly two decades, but was adamant about keeping the MES piece after moving over to the SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
About The Customer
Jabil Packaging Solutions (JPS) is a key provider of precision molded plastic products. The company offers healthcare and packaging customers the widest array of design and manufacturing capabilities in the industry. With more than 40 years of experience, the company’s highly specialized teams meet the complex demands of the diagnostic, medical device and instrumentation, and pharmaceutical and consumer health markets, helping the world’s leading brands fulfill their market potential. Healthcare and Packaging markets worldwide are in the midst of dynamic change. Technologies, regulations, patient and consumer behaviors, population demographics, and business models are all experiencing transformation that makes the future of healthcare difficult to predict and navigate. JPS, a Jabil company based in St. Petersburg, FL, is a prime example of a company taking the lead in this challenging market. In 2013, Nypro was acquired by Jabil to provide new long-term solutions for Jabil customers as well as to continue to serve Nypro’s diversified customer base.
The Solution
JPS Iowa worked with IQMS to create I-docs, reports that are transferred out of SAP and go to a folder on a shared drive. From there they use IQ Alert, which picks up those folders and distributes the process orders into scheduling for IQMS. Through this process, the orders are loaded onto each machine individually, and show up in real time on the supervisors’ monitors. This allows them to watch and monitor their machines on a real-time basis as they’re running. They know whether they’re behind schedule or on-time. They know it they’re running on a standard cycle time by comparing the actual cycle time in real time. Each of them can pull up this information on their computer and see how the shop floor is running. The MES also allows them to run reports like utilizations, OEEs, and cycle standard deviations, which they use every day.
Operational Impact
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