We recently implemented our Visual Factory Software at a factory with an advanced food packaging line. The line included control of product infeed, multiple 'legs' for sharing the load of wrapping individual products, robotic box fillers and case packers, automatic scrapping of non-conforming materials, part tracking through check-weighers, and multiple configurations that it could take for different products.

It was great to work with such a modern piece of equipment, and we were able to learn a lot while helping the customer find ways to improve their processes and make data-driven decisions to optimize their production.

Many of the lessons we learned from this implementation can be applied to other packaging plants as well. Here’s what we learned that you can consider for your own Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) facility.

Maybe you’ve spent some time on our homepage, you’ve watched our explainer video, or you’ve talked to colleagues in other facilities who are using MAJiK software, and you get the basics of what Visual Factory can do. That is, you know that Visual Factory will help you improve productivity, streamline operations, upgrade production quality, and be more innovative by using data to drive better decisions in your manufacturing operations.

But what is using Visual Factory software like on a day-to-day basis? In other words, what are the tangible changes you can expect to see in your plant and organization after going live, and when can you expect them?

Take a journey on your first 100 days with MAJiK Visual Factory.

Everyone working in a factory is ultimately there to do one thing: Get a product out the door and to the customer, on time and at the required cost. Given that all team members are working towards one common goal, shouldn’t it be simple to build consensus around top issues, priorities, and problem-solving? Not exactly.

Watch the webinar that we put on with our great partner Fiix Software and customer Trivium Packaging: https://share.vidyard.com/watch/ZYApEHyKpnCZV2iYrV2LgC?

We discuss:

- How Fiix and Majik work together, including a live demo
- Cost savings and other benefits from sending sensor and equipment data to your CMMS
- The heightened value of enabling remote factory monitoring with COVID-19
- How Majik Systems can integrate with your CMMS today

MAJiK Systems has been expanding from discrete manufacturing and applying its IIoT Connect technology to the Mining Industry.

Read about our work here, along with additional best practises from thought leaders in the mining industry.

Read how MAJiK Systems partnered with the Center of Excellence in Next Generation Networks to test our mutli-tenant scalable cloud solution to handle up to 20,000 connected industrial assets.

Read about MAJiK’s partnership with Behrtech, another great Canadian company working in the IT/OT space, which enables an end-to-end solution for Wireless Brownfield PLC Connectivity.

MAJiK Systems was awarded the 2017 Top MES Solution Provider award from Manufacturing Technology Insights magazine. Read about it here.

One of the installs MAJiK recently performed was at the Guelph, Ont., plant of Blount Canada in February 2016.

Blount International is a manufacturer and marketer of chainsaw and other replacement parts, equipment and accessories in more than 110 countries around the world under the brand names OREGON, Carlton and KOX. The Guelph manufacturing facility makes saw chains, chainsaw bars and sprockets.

Jeroen Ahsmann, part of the Guelph plant’s ‘Chain Manufacturing Engineering’ division, says what they wanted from MAJiK was two-fold: real-time and historical reporting on equipment faults, and up/downtime tracking.