The company began with manufacturing gut sutures, but today offers comprehensive range of surgical sutures across therapeutic areas such as obstetrics/gynaecology, gastroenterology, general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, cardiovascular surgery, neurosurgery, transplants etc. It also ensures to deliver top quality solutions to surgeons, physicians, and hospitals across 100 countries including countries such as the USA, France, UK, Poland, China.
Business Challenges
Sutures (Healthium ) wanted greater visibility into manufacturing processes and production management twhich will help them in reducing the rework/rejections and would improve the traceability of the planned production orders. They wanted a solution to:
- Measure the overall equipment efficiency of each machine in the factory
- Productivity process wise, employee wise, machine wise and job card wise
- Machine production time and Idle time with reason for the same
- Compliance, preventive, safety and autonomous maintenance
- Traceability of each job card
- Consumable reporting (Drill bits and wheels)
- Maintenance activity monitoring and escalations.
Implementation Highlights
EIM Solutions implemented SCH Manufacturing in the shop floor for job card management & tracking.
The solution enabled:
- Better machine utilization
- Advanced data visualization leading to greater insights
- Real-time management of manufacturing processes
- Improvement in productivity
- Visibility of customer order
- Connected job card to provide live reporting.
Business Benefits
The Smart Factory solution implemented by EIM Solutions has transformed the company’s shop floor processes. . Besides monitoring machine health, the solution also enables real-time management of manufacturing processes for all the users. It has enabled obtaining real-time production counts and shows the progress against the order.
