Wrigley selects Cimlogic to implement OEE System

Posted on 17 Oct 2012 by Tim Brown

West Yorkshire based MES Systems Integrator; Cimlogic has recently been selected to provide an OEE System at chewing gum manufacturer, Wrigley in Plymouth, UK.

Cimlogic has secured a project to work with Wrigley which produces famous brands of chewing gum at their Plymouth site.

Wrigley is committed to delivering continuous improvement and is currently embracing LEAN manufacturing principles. Cimlogic will implement TrakSYS real time operations and performance management software to measure and improve the efficiency of Wrigley’s production lines as part of the company’s commitment to continually improving people, products and services.

Simon Billett, LEAN TPM Coach at Wrigley said: “We selected Cimlogic to assist us on our LEAN manufacturing journey as we believe they are perfectly positioned to provide us with the right tools and solutions to improve the standard of visual data in the factory in terms of OEE and waste streams.

“In addition we believe this will help us improve our environmental impact through increased understanding of energy usage by asset. We have an ethos of empowering our operators and the easier to see and understand our data is, the more we can use it to compass their involvement.”

Cimlogic has worked with a variety of manufacturers within food and beverage, pharmaceutical, CPG, and processing industries providing manufacturing execution systems to help improve profitability of manufacturing processes and increase overall efficiency of operations.