Orkla Nidar realizes a plant-wide 10% OEE increase using RS Production®
"By consistently basing our improvement work on facts from RS Production, we have increased plant-wide OEE by 10%. In specific production lines even more."
Kerstin Leistad, Production Manager at Orkla Confectionery & Snacks Norge AS
Established in 1912, Orkla Nidar employs about 250 people and produces a wide range of confectionaries for several Nordic market brands. The factory operates 24/7 and invests heavily in R&D, HSEQ, innovation, and efficiency.
RS Production from Good Solutions has been used for about six years, and by continuously basing decisions on facts from production, plant-wide OEE has been increased 10%.
Problem
Orkla Nidar used to work with the “classic” pen and paper approach for production controls and loss reason coding. The collected data was transferred into Excel.
Besides being tedious and time-consuming, proper loss analysis was challenging since the main loss reason reported was “Other” due to operators not always recalling correctly.
On top of this, no trending could be done, and no historical data was available.
These problems ended in 2016 after getting started with RS Production.
Solution
Orkla Nidar leverages RS Production capabilities throughout the production day.
Production stops are automatically logged and categorized properly by operators, resulting in reliable, quality production data.
For example, standardized reports are used for morning meetings in all production lines making out the meeting agenda for reviewing the most significant losses from the previous day and the action log.
Production management review production data weekly, prioritizing improvement work and planning actions based on quarterly and yearly major losses.
Results
Production Manager Kerstin Leistad explains:
“By consistently basing our improvement work on facts from RS Production, we have increased plant-wide OEE by 10%. In specific production lines even more”.
“What’s more, we have been able to transition from working in big improvement projects to smaller, more agile improvements targeting specific issues.” Kerstin continues.
We’re investing in digitization to stay at the forefront, especially in our brand-new production line being built. We’re working even more with visualizations and moving into working fully digital in meetings throughout our factory, making better decisions faster.
RS Production is an integral part of our future.
“By consistently basing our improvement work on facts from RS Production, we have increased plant-wide OEE by 10%. In specific production lines even more.” says Kerstin Leistad, Production Manager at Orkla Confectionery & Snacks Norge AS.