Case Study: Bulten achieves greater shop-floor visibility and improved documentation with Lighthouse Systems Shopfloor-Online

Bulten streamlines shop floor processes for greater visibility and improved documentation

Bulten, a leading supplier of fasteners to the European automotive industry, needed greater consistency, traceability and real-time visibility of shop floor processes to meet customer documentation and quality demands. To replace paper-based checks and aging SPC software, Bulten turned to Lighthouse Systems and its web-based Shopfloor-Online to standardize control plans and make process measurements and rules visible to operators across its plants in Sweden and Poland.

Lighthouse Systems implemented Shopfloor-Online (initially across cold forging, threading and heat treatment lines), integrating manual entry and direct gauge connections, scheduling measurements and raising real-time alerts when values move out of specification. The solution eliminated paper records and legacy SPC tools, improved documentation and reporting accuracy, reduced operator data-entry time, increased process visibility for faster issue detection, and has already been rolled out across multiple Bulten sites in Sweden and Poland with further extensions planned.

Bulten

Göran Johansson

Environment and Quality Managerat