Case Study: Automobile And Heavy Equipment Company achieves 25%+ output increase and nearly $100,000 overtime savings with Hertzler Systems Inc.'s GainSeeker

Down-time Analysis Reduces Waste

Automobile And Heavy Equipment Company, a supplier of transmission components for the automobile and heavy equipment industries, was failing to meet customer demand and faced losing a key contract despite running three shifts seven days a week. Rather than immediately buying new machines or hiring more staff, they turned to Hertzler Systems Inc and its GainSeeker data-acquisition and analysis solution to determine whether existing equipment utilization and downtime were the root causes.

Hertzler Systems Inc implemented minute-by-minute machine tracking with GainSeeker to record setup, maintenance, and run time and provided multilevel Pareto analysis so operators could target the main causes of downtime. Within six months the department moved to a five-day work week—saving nearly $100,000 in overtime—while output increased over 25%, scrap and defects were reduced, and additional machinery purchases were avoided.