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News Release from: Husky Injection Molding Systems UK | Subject: Moulding plant audit
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 August 2001
Identifying injection moulding cost
savings
Husky Injection Moulding Systems offers a plant audit to identify cost savings for moulders.
Husky Injection Moulding Systems offers a plant audit to identify cost savings for moulders The audits offer an impartial assessment of a moulding facility and recommend potential improvements
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 8 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Activities range from itemising fixed and variable expenses to reviewing work cell integration.
Husky says that plant audits generally reveal savings of at least 10% of the total operating costs.
To conduct an audit, a systems engineer spends two to three days at a moulder's factory, collecting data and reviewing plant practices.
The information gathered remains strictly confidential.
Information includes: * A breakdown of hourly plant operating costs.
* Specific opportunities to reduce costs, ranging from reducing energy consumption to standardising work cells.
* Estimates of potential annual cost savings.
* A benchmark ranking based on industry standards.
The information from the report can be used by a business team to implement cost-cutting measures.
Husky guarantees its plant audits to ensure clients are fully satisfied, and offers engineering and plant management resources to support an implementation plan.
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