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General Cable saved on raw materials by decreasing inconsistencies
技术
- 分析与建模 - 预测分析
- 应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据交换与集成
- 功能应用 - 制造执行系统 (MES)
适用行业
- 电信
适用功能
- 流程制造
- 产品研发
- 质量保证
用例
- 机器状态监测
- 预测性维护
- 过程控制与优化
服务
- 软件设计与工程服务
- 系统集成
- 培训
挑战
As the company continued to grow and acquire more product brands, General Cable saw the need for consistent production data analytics across its global manufacturing base. Although the company continued to produce high-quality products, it wanted to implement a system that improved the ability to control process variation from plant to plant. With a standard approach to data collection and analysis, the company could ensure high quality, control raw material use, and prevent operational inefficiencies associated with rework, giveaway, production delays, or customer complaints.
关于客户
General Cable (NYSE: BGC) is a Fortune 500 Company with a 165-year history and more than 14,000 associates on six continents. The company is headquartered in Highland Heights, Kentucky, and operates 57 manufacturing facilities across 26 countries. General Cable is a global leader in the development, manufacture, design, and distribution of aluminum, copper, and fiber-optic wire and cable products and solutions for the energy, construction, industrial, specialty, and communications sectors. Serving commercial, industrial, electric utility, telecommunications, OEM, military/government, retail, electrical, and communications distributor customers worldwide, the company is the largest wire and cable company in North America and the third largest in the world with annual revenues of more than $6 billion.
解决方案
General Cable approached InfinityQS®, the global authority on Manufacturing Intelligence and enterprise quality, about implementing ProFicient™, a proven Manufacturing Intelligence hub powered by a centralized Statistical Process Control (SPC) analysis engine. Together, General Cable and InfinityQS worked closely to create a solution that addressed the needs of the company’s supply chain while increasing visibility and production consistency. To date, General Cable has implemented ProFicient on premises in a terminal server environment at 14 of its manufacturing locations. The company has created a centralized repository for seamless data collection and analysis. General Cable’s on-premises implementations included more than 100 individual applications to monitor manufacturing processes and ensure product quality. These applications collect critical-to-quality data to control process variations. General Cable also integrated numerous devices such as micrometers, microscopes, scales, cameras, and more. With InfinityQS ProFicient, data points are automatically collected every 100 to 200 feet of cable to produce flow charts and control charts. Plant floor operators use SPC to assist with machine control adjustments, while General Cable’s quality team analyzes data to help identify areas for improvement.
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