How digitalisation saves money for Plastic
Industry
CONNECTED MANUFACTURING

Agenda
• Industrial Revolution 1, 2 & 3
• Its benefits and limitations
• Problem faced by Plastic Industry
• What is Digitalisation & Industry 4.0 / 4IR
• Case Study -Benefits of Digitalisation to Plastic Industry
• How to start Digitalisation journey / 4IR
• Conclusion
• Q&A

Industrial
Revolutions

The
problem.
Poor Production
Efficiency
Manual
process
recording
Essential
parameters
not recorded
Reactive
Maintenance
Problems
invisible to
operators

What is Digital
Factory/ Industry
4.0 / 4iR
• Streamlined and optimised production processes
• Increased machine uptime and usage
• Reduced capacity constraints
• Better quality products
• Less waste, reduced inventory levels
• More efficient energy usage
• Predictive maintenance and servicing
• Remote diagnostics and maintenance
• Safer working environment
• Mass customisation
• Quicker time to market
• Robots perform difficult or onerous tasks

The market
demand.
1.2
TRILLION DOLLARS
Attributed to IoT
in factories
92%$20K
DOLLARS PER MINUTE
Unplanned
downtime
cost
Machines not
connected
60%
Wants
to connect

Case Study 1

ThingTrax saved me money from day one!
Dan Leach - Customer

CASE STUDY: PLASTIC INJECTION
MOULDER REDUCES ENERGY COSTS BY
15% BY EFFECTIVE MONITORING USING
IIOT
• Idle machines waste significant energy
• Monitoring solutions identify and alerts on idle
running times.
• The live energy dashboard shows energy
consumption of all injection moulding machines
and captures rich data of energy consumed down
to each production cycle and learns the
consumption pattern based on product, tool and
machine.

Case Study 2

CASE STUDY: How digitalisation
helped plastic injection moulder
increase efficiency by 30%
• Monitors shop floor and analyses data from
machines and operators
• Alerts on most critical issues.
• Builds skills and capability matrix of machines
and operators in real time.
• Identifies operators/staff cross training
requirements.
• Accurately predicts job schedule and
completion times.
• Ensures that routine safety, quality and
maintenance checks are completed.
• Automatically plans jobs taking into
consideration various constraints.

Key points
Industry 4IR aren’t just for big
guys.
Those who dismiss 4IR are at
risk of competitive advantage
Start with small and simple
projects.

• Installs in ONE hour
• Wireless – no network cabling required
• Monitor production efficiency, downtimes and scrap in Real-Time
• No CAPEX – pay monthly subscription

How
we do this?
ThingTrax
Machine Learning

Thanks
• imran@thingtrax.com
• www.thingtrax.com
• ThingTrax provides an end-to-end industrial IoT solution providing
easy to setup devices and simple to use web and mobile software.
ThingTrax is the Chromecast for manufacturing machines, bringing
desperate disconnected machines online to provide OEE (Overall
Equipment Efficiency), OLE (Overall Labour Efficiency) and Predictive
Maintenance which are crucial KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for
every manufacturer.

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