Textiles

We supply business intelligence and performance management systems to textile clients and we couldn't be prouder.

I love the textile industry. Both of my parents worked at denim plants as I grew up. I started working at a cotton mill on weekends and summers when I turned 16 years old. I took a full-time second shift job at the mill during my senior year of high school which I worked until I left for college.

Textiles are a tough industry with high demands for quality and incredible pressure to be a very low cost producer. Many textile plants have highly sophisticated equipment and machines. Some textile plants are still operating old equipment in better ways.

We have helped Textile plants in the following areas:

Tracking and increasing performance of machines and processes by real-time performance management tools to track Downtime, OEE, MTBF and more.
Root-cause analysis of problems by showing trending of process variables in conjunction with performance information by equipment, grade, etc.
Energy management reporting.
Web-based process and performance reporting.
Automated web-based Slasher Reporting.

Here is our top 5 suggestions to increase profitability in a Textile Plant:

Real-time manufacturing Dashboards in Operating and Common Areas
Energy Management
Track downtime, OEE and more by product and shift on all constraint machines
Lean Pull - reduce WIP and inventories
Reduce quality problems

Links and Interest:

This is our kind if client. We want to help make textiles profitable in America. http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/30/blue.jeans.mill/index.html
Process Historians are less expensive than they have ever been and the tools to use real-time and historical data are better and cheaper too. This may not be the case when you go to the automation giants. Sylution can help our Textile companies see immediate return for a small investment.
- Canary Historian - Open, inexpensive and easy to use.
- What to consider when looking at a Historian.