Case Study: Meridian Brick boosts production efficiency and cuts costly downtime with Samsara

Meridian Brick - Customer Case Study

Meridian Brick, formed from the 2016 merger of Boral Bricks and Forterra Brick, is North America’s largest maker of brick and masonry products with a supply chain from raw materials to finished goods and a catalog of over 1,000 products. The company faced costly, hard-to-track downtime because manual logging missed many short stops—“death by a thousand papercuts”—making accurate production data and real-time visibility essential to protect margins.

Meridian deployed Samsara’s Manufacturing Analytics for automatic downtime tracking, cellular connectivity (avoiding Wi‑Fi), and an easy HMI that operators used with no training; sites self‑installed and were live in under 30 minutes. The solution immediately improved uptime, throughput, and scrap insights—revealing issues like raw-material loading delays—and enabled better decisions on processes, staffing, and capital spend, with savings that justify the system in a year or less.

Meridian Brick

David Peters

Director of Technical Services