Company Background & Operations:
Lumotech (Pty Ltd) is an automotive lighting manufacturer situated in Niven Industrial in Uitenhage, South Africa. Their products include headlights, tail lights, signal light and specialized plastic injection moldings.
“The WCM programmes is focused on supporting the implementation of interventions amongst participating firms that will support them enhancing their competitiveness. The intervention identified for Lumotech was the introduction of an Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) solution. HaldanMES was selected as the service provider to support this.”
Key Challenges:
In 2016, HaldanMES was being used to monitor OEE information on 6 machines in Lumotech’s production facility. After connecting HaldanMES in May 2016, Lumotech made steady improvements in their weekly OEE and have seen significant progress.
HaldanMES data from June 2016 revealed that the majority of Shopfloor losses were due to