Background

Headquartered in Africa, our client Ashut Engineers Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of a wide range of plastic products. A state-of-the-art manufacturing facility enables them to service multiple industries including edible and motor oils, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and veterinary.

Challenges

Strong competitive pressure meant Ashut needed to reduce costs and simultaneously improve quality and delivery reliability. Specifically, their strategy called for:

  • Improve employee and equipment performance and efficiency
  • Reduce energy costs
  • Empower stakeholders with insights to improve decision-making and issue resolution
  • Single, unified solution regardless of machine type and OEM
  • Integration with ERP and production planning systems

Solution

EcoAxis defined and designed Ashut’s digital enablement architecture to integrate disparate operational technologies (OT) such as compressors, chillers, energy meters, molding equipment (of varying vintage, capabilities and from different OEMs) and information technologies (IT) such as ERP and production planning.

EcoAxis and Ashut digitally connected 150 machines (135 processes, 15 utility equipment) of 20 different makes and 33 different models.

Once digitally enabled, our client’s site was seamlessly and quickly integrated with EcoAxis’ cloud-based, Internet of Things (IoT) enabled, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Business Intelligence (BI) ready Industry 4.0 product, axisPLAST4.0 to deliver business value through deep actionable insights.

“Energy and operational efficiency improvements were our immediate business goals. We decided to go for EcoAxis’ solution digitising our complete plant floor with access to analytics on anytime anywhere basis…we have achieved close to 15% energy efficiency…we are confident of achieving further 10% improvement on energy costs in the current year…and are confident that we would be able to drive upto 10% OEE improvements at the factory level.”

– Mehul Shah, Production Director at Ashut Engineers Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya

Benefits

The advantages of deploying axisPLAST4.0 were evident immediately:

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Customers Who Trust EcoAxis.

“We chose EcoAxis for its technological superiority, domain knowledge and experience in RPMS (Remote performance monitoring system) which make it a leader in the segment. EcoAxis team has a phenomenal ability to understand our needs and translate them into a reliable solution. We have already considered EcoAxis for 6 overseas projects and would not hesitate to recommend them to others.”

Vice President - Operations, Uttam Energy

“Energy and operational efficiency improvements were our immediate business goals. We decided to go for EcoAxis’ solution digitizing our complete plant floor with access to analytics on anytime anywhere basis…we have achieved close to 15% energy efficiency…we are confident to achieve a further 10% improvement on energy costs in the current year…and are confident that we would be able to drive up to 10% OEE improvements at the factory level.”

Production Director, Ashut Engineers Ltd

“We are excited by the business gains and competitive edge that axisPLAST4.0 has helped us realize in such a short period. Also it will help us to continuously push the boundary of innovation to stay ahead of our competition. Industry 4.0 being a strategic and an on-going program, it requires a trusted and knowledgeable partner like EcoAxis.”

Director, Accurate Industries

“For our competitive advantage, we leverage the data of our interconnected machines, material traceability, and SAP business system for getting live KPIs anytime, anywhere, using EcoAxis’ IoT solutions. Our expectations from the IoT solution were very challenging, but I am happy that EcoAxis has surpassed our expectations.”

Operations Head, Renata Precision Components

“We are delighted to see the latest enhancements in axisPLAST 4.0, especially the daily and monthly reports providing all relevant data that we need”

Senior Manager - Operational Excellence, SUNPET - TPAC Packaging

“We decided to use axisPLAST 4.0, the Internet of Things technology, provided by EcoAxis to collate and analyze live data. It has some unique functionalities built specifically for plastic product manufacturers, e.g. operational reports, mold analytics, etc. providing us tremendous value in terms of operational analysis.”

Director - Technology Evangelism and New Product Development, United Industries

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