Network as a Differentiator in Manufacturing

View the December 8 webinar recording.

Use your network as a competitive advantage in terms of business process and optimization. Real time decisions need to be made with real time data (securely) in order to drive efficiencies in your operations.  

Hear Cisco’s Steve Gansen talk with our Robin Cobb, Industrial Network and Cybersecurity Solutions and Richard Phillips, Director of Smart Manufacturing. The discussion is successful implementations and how you can take the next steps in your journey using the network as a competitive differentiator. 

Polytron is a Cisco Digital Solutions Integrator. 

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What is Your Manufacturing Challenge?

Expand Manufacturing Capability

The right capital investments will ensure the health and growth of your company.  Lower your risk and feel confident that you are investing your capital in the best solutions for your business’ future.

INCREASE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY

Smarter solutions and decisions come from unleashing the power of the data from your plant floor to enable you to start the Smart Manufacturing journey for improved efficiency and increased profitability.

Expand Manufacturing Capability

The right capital investments will ensure the health and growth of your company. Deciding which systems to install, designing solutions to meet long-term needs, and adopting the right technologies are critical factors that require expertise to answer and a disciplined approach to successfully deploy. Lower your risk and feel confident that you are investing your capital in the best solution for your business’ future.

Batch Management Replacement Yields High Returns

A global snack baker reduced quality losses and downtime, and increased yield by 30% after replacing their batch management and control system. They eliminated downtime, achieved a 25% improvement and a one-year payback.

Emulation is a Game Changer for Instant Startup

A global beverage company added a new bottling line that included both new and existing equipment.  Moving into Startup confident that the new line would ramp up quickly and meet their business objectives was easy with simulation.

Polytron Smart Manufacturing Full System Brochure

Many manufacturers are overwhelmed with the amount of effort, level of detail, or expertise required to successfully complete capital projects and ensure the investment meets their company’s goals. A proven, disciplined approach to project execution

Increase Operational Efficiency

Smarter solutions and decisions come from unleashing the power of the data from your plant floor to enable you to start the Smart Manufacturing journey for improved efficiency and increased profitability. Identifying and implementing the right technology, process, and organizational changes required to leverage that data delivers the highest value. Data-driven projects can produce a quick return and influence – even reduce – critical capital expenditure projects.

NEW! Sipping on Success - Have You and Your Machines Talked Lately?

NEW ! – Data from the machines you have on the plant floor can give insight into what they need to earn you more money.  Six months after deploying a MOM solution this beverage manufacturer was realizing a 20% improvement in their OEE.

Digital Twin Gives Clarity to Bottling Line Issues and Doubles OEE Output

A comprehensive line audit and an exact 3-D simulation model of the production line created clarity about issues and showed that replacing the culprit machine would reveal underlying problems that could be remedied. With emulation, shutting down production lines is prevented resulting in reduced operational costs and avoiding a costly capital expansion.

The Smart Manufacturing Maturity Checklist

Struggling with understanding how to get started on your Smart Manufacturing journey?  Use this tool to assess where you are today, and what you need to do to ensure…

What our clients say

"These guys keep in the forefront the impact of what they do. They are always a benefit in that they are looking past their finite scope into overall performance. They do more than just controls. They are looking at how their work impacts other parts of the project. They definitely don’t work in a silo."

Nutraceutical Manufacturer

"They don’t come to me with a cookie-cutter solution. They are identifying our problems and come up with solutions to meet my needs."

Beverage Manufacturer

"They are very capable. They provided us with a solution that works. Some places will come up with solutions that don't always work. There was no trial and error with Polytron. I didn't need to put so much effort in."

Medical Device Manufacturer

We commend Polytron for the exhaustive and intensive process of re-writing our batching system and ingredient sequence process to make this initiative a tremendous success. Utilizing a unique and high effectively emulation technique, the system startup occurred over a holiday weekend. Polytron met all milestones and completion dates as agreed and to our complete satisfaction.

Global Snack Manufacturer

"I have worked with Polytron for 15+ years, I found that Polytron is as adept at handling the unexpected as they are at planning and managing the expected. The enabler for this level of performance and I believe their competitive advantage, lies in their project management expertise. They do not just exist to get the project completed. They excel where others have fallen, crashed and burned."

Food and Beverage Manufacturing

"Polytron’s ability to offer a full-service set of engineering capacity and to deliver with excellence in each area offers a differentiated advantage for our company in their diverse capability."

Consumer Goods Manufacturer

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