In a manufacturing company's production process, a "bottleneck" is a limitation that lengthens production time and delays deliveries to customers. It can significantly increase operating costs and decrease profits. It can be identified at any stage of the process: from planning to product production, storage and shipping.
Why is it necessary to reduce (or eliminate) bottlenecks?
Because increasing the speed of customer order fulfillment means increased productivity and margins.
How to identify bottlenecks in foam production?
It takes knowledge and a lot of field experience. In our 37 years of work in the field of polyethylene and expanded polypropylene, we have learned to recognize, predict and eliminate every possible bottleneck in the production process.
Practical example: the bottleneck of degassing.
In the production of expanded polyethylene and polypropylene, the main limitation is usually faced during "Degassing": the phase in which gas is replaced by air. This process has a significant impact on further processes, e.g. at the lamination stage: it is impossible to start the process if degassing has not been completed, and it also has a significant impact on product storage costs.
How FAP foam extrusion lines can help you reduce potential bottlenecks?
- Acceleration of delivery times: reduction of process waste in production = reduction of production batches to minimum cost-effective size.
- Optimising logistics: reducing the number of finished and semi-finished products in stock = increasing the turnover rate.
- Optimising production costs with FAP technology.
FAP technology designed for optimization!
The technological and technical features of FAP extrusion lines are designed to increase the performance of the company's whole production system, including storage costs, raw material costs, and workforce productivity.