Every manufacturer aims to keep the production lines intact and to run to maximize productivity. The most often faced downtime in production includes malfunctioning specific parts/tools and the breakage of components.
The impact of downtime is more costly than you think, and productivity can go down to 20% because of unplanned downtime. Sudden failures in equipment need immediate fixing, and we are quite unsure about equipment performance until it breaks down.
3D Printing-The Perfect Solution to Reduce Downtime
Besides, our leverage with 3D Printing has improved OEE for us. OEE stands for Overall Equipment Effectiveness. OEE is a critical metric that helps determine how well a manufacturing process runs.
To Conclude, How do you minimize downtime? No doubt, additive manufacturing is the intelligent solution to overcome.
Firstly, one must understand time is money and having 3D Printing systems in place is a more cost-beneficial investment to over productivity loss during downtime. 3D Printing doesn’t incur substantial initial tooling costs, and turnaround time can be meagre. Lastly, 3D Printing can help you improve your OEE to increase your throughput.
In our recent works, Amuse works collaboratively with automotive industries to manufacture 3D printed tooling. Clients have experienced at least an 80% cost reduction in manufacturing tools and a lead time of 75%, which has made a massive difference to them.
Do you face any downtime in production, talk to us to increase your productivity
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