PlantStar

By David Mann – Facilities Team Leader, PDI Plastic Design International is upgrading to a new PlantStar production monitoring system. The new PlantStar system has been installed in all of the machines at PDI. It is now being used for job scheduling and tracking jobs for on-time delivery. Also, the Setup Technicians and the Material Team Members are using PlantStar to check for upcoming jobs so that they can prepare for them before they are due for production.

This new system has real-time tracking of machine and labor utilization, material usage and production efficiencies.

A very useful feature of this new system is that you can access a real-time visual snapshot of the delivery status of any job from any PDI computer.

Other features of the new PlantStar system are:

• Different part numbers in a family tool can now be tracked individually by part number.
• Production parts, machine downtime and the reasons for rejected parts are tracked and can be printed out by machine shift or job number.
• Images of good or rejected parts can be made available at any PDI computer.
• Setup, quality and operational documents can be accessed at any PDI computer.
• PlantStar data can be uploaded into our DTR system to adjust part and material quantities and usage.

This information will be accessible from anywhere on our corporate network or from any home computer that has access to our network.

Everyone at Plastic Design is very enthusiastic about the new PlantStar system that will make scheduling and monitoring production more efficient. ----------------------------------------------

Plastic Design International was started in 1977 in the short-run prototype R&D business. PDI is now one of the most effective Plastic Injection Molding production companies on the East Coast and an expert Mold Making manufacturer. Please contact us with any questions at 860-632-2001.