Case Study: Neapco achieves major quality improvements with Savance Datamiser

Neapco - Customer Case Study

Neapco, an automotive parts manufacturer, faced significant quality control challenges at a Michigan plant. The primary issue was that faulty driveshafts rejected by one machine were sometimes incorrectly marked as good and shipped out after passing subsequent manufacturing steps. This led to quality problems, an inability to track good versus bad parts in real-time, and a lack of safeguards to prevent defective parts from leaving the factory. They engaged Savance Datamiser for a solution.

Savance Datamiser implemented a system that networked the production machines to a central server to collect data. They configured each machine's PLC to provide traceability and pass/fail information, which was used to print labels at each process step. This system created failure labels for any bad part that progressed, ensuring it could not be shipped. The solution provided real-time, customizable reporting. As a result, Neapco reduced its failure rate by over 22% and decreased the number of bad parts produced per shift by over 50%, leading to major quality improvements.

Neapco

D. K. Bullens

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