Clean Everyday CLEAN Show Edition

High Frequency
Breakdowns
Cost More Than
You Think
It’s intuitive that to meet customer demand and operate
efficiently a commercial laundries production and
engineering teams need to work together to ensure
equipment availability, achieving production rates and
organizing smooth process flow from the soil dock to
the shipping dock. However, what has surprised some
SpindlePRO customers is the far-reaching impact of high
frequency breakdowns or nuisance issues.
A large commercial laundry with 40 pieces of equipment
and 200 employees used SpindlePRO effectively to
understand:
• Where engineers were spending their time.
• What equipment was creating the largest bottlenecks
and the underlying downtime reasons.
• The optimal preventative maintenance schedules to
increase equipment uptime.
• Prioritizing engineering activity to minimize impact on
the production activities.
In reviewing the SpindlePRO Overall Equipment
Effectiveness (OEE) dashboard, the customer discovered
a chronic issue with a bath blanket folder. The 8% OEE
meant that Blanket Folder #2 was only processing
8% of the pieces it should be processing during its
scheduled hours of operation. The primary issue was
with Availability, showing it was only in use for 13% of
its scheduled time with 31 hours lost to Maintenance
Downtime and 135 hours of No Demand.
OEE =
Availability x Performance x Quality
Availability: is your equipment/cell available at design
capability when it is scheduled for production.
Performance: is production being carried out at
standard/design rates.
Quality: when you are producing, is everything
of required quality
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