CRIBWISE and partner Göhlins helped Sävjo Plastic to automate its inventory management process driven by the increasing demand for its in-house designed products.
Background
Sävjo Plastic is a specialist fabrications business based in Sweden and has been working with plastics since 1967. The company has scaled up at an immense rate in the last 8 years: with rising demand for the manufacture a particular product driving this growth as well as being a catalyst for automating the entire factory.
Today, Sävjo Plastic’s facilities include automated lines and robotics running around the clock. The company uses ABB-Wemo-Fanuc robots fitted with suction cups, supplied by Göhlins, that grip boxes of finished product and package them in the best way possible. For Sävjo Plastic, these suction cups are essential for efficient box handling and ensuring the seamless operation of the manufacturing process. Their constant availability is crucial for maintaining steady production output.
To provide a reliable and smart storage solution for the stock, CRIBWISE was introduced to the production floor. CRIBWISE has been working with Göhlins for many years, delivering automated solutions for storing, tracking and controlling inventory so Sebastian Lindqvist, salesperson at Göhlins, recognised that CRIBWISE was an ideal solution for Sävjo Plastic. He says, “It is absolutely the right approach to keep order and track of vital inventory with the help of CRIBWISE technology.”
The problem
Sävjo Plastic relies on large and complex operations to keep their processes running. Many elements need to work together in order to meet customer expectations.
Everyday hundreds of thousands of products are created, assembled, moved and packed at the production units. Due to the company’s quick growth, new challenges such as a surge in employee numbers and an increase in supplies in circulation, resulted in a need for better organization across the production unit. One crucial requirement in keeping the factory moving is the ready availability of suction cups for gripping and packaging, which is possible through a well-organized inventory management solution.
The CRIBWISE solution
When introduced by Göhlins to manage the availability of suction cups, CRIBWISE provided an efficient way to ensure they are always readily available, can be tracked and also stored in an orderly manner. By using the CRIBWISE cabinet, CRIBWISE helped support Sävjo Plastic with an automated solution to their inventory needs.
This is a great example of how the CRIBWISE software can be paired with an appropriate storage system to create a holistic solution for tracking, storing and retrieving inventory in an efficient way.
Staff have a quicker way to locate what they need and improve productivity, reducing the time spent searching for inventory. This reduces staff fatigue and frees up administrative time.
Better organization of suction cups means the production unit is maximizing storage space and more of the production floor is available for productive use.
The results
Sävjo Plastic have overcome the challenges accompanied by their rapid expansion with the help of a scalable solution that grows with their growing requirements. CRIBWISE is now implemented alongside the production unit and has been integrated into the company’s way of working.
As a company that always thinks ahead and is innovative, Sävjo Plastic continues to rise to success with CRIBWISE supporting them with tracking, control, storage and visibility of important aspects of their stocking and production process.
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