Worthington Industries implemented L2L's Smart Manufacturing Platform across seven locations to gain real-time visibility into plant operations and drive down costs. This resulted in over 350 hours of reduced unplanned downtime and over $1 million in cost avoidance from machine downtime after 26 months. The system coordinates production teams and identifies bottlenecks to improve efficiencies.
Worthington Industries implemented L2L's Smart Manufacturing Platform across seven locations to gain real-time visibility into plant operations and drive down costs. This resulted in over 350 hours of reduced unplanned downtime and over $1 million in cost avoidance from machine downtime after 26 months. The system coordinates production teams and identifies bottlenecks to improve efficiencies.
Worthington Industries implemented L2L's Smart Manufacturing Platform across seven locations to gain real-time visibility into plant operations and drive down costs. This resulted in over 350 hours of reduced unplanned downtime and over $1 million in cost avoidance from machine downtime after 26 months. The system coordinates production teams and identifies bottlenecks to improve efficiencies.
Worthington Industries implemented L2L's Smart Manufacturing Platform across seven locations to gain real-time visibility into plant operations and drive down costs. This resulted in over 350 hours of reduced unplanned downtime and over $1 million in cost avoidance from machine downtime after 26 months. The system coordinates production teams and identifies bottlenecks to improve efficiencies.
Worthington Industries is a value-added steel processor and producer of laser welded
products; and a leading global supplier of pressure cylinders and accessories for applications such as fuel storage, water systems, outdoor living, tools, and celebrations.
The Challenge Worthington Industries (WI) needed to bring increased visibili- After 26 months, seven WI locations now use L2L to view real-time ty and efficiency to plant operations in order to drive down metrics and orchestrate their teams to drive continuous improvement costs and increase competitiveness, all while maintaining a and improve earnings.
“ high level of quality.
“ Everything our plants could do to improve efficiency, reduce unplanned downtime, drive waste out of the “Prior to L2L, tracking production metrics was ad-hoc, manual, and most of the time lost forever when the whiteboard was erased each day. L2L has changed that paradigm by collecting and displaying plant metrics in real-time from both process, and react faster to change became even more operators and machines. The system makes it easy to tell if each line is winning critical to keep up with the changing market conditions.” or losing throughout the day. Now we’re more productive, reacting faster to downtime, figuring out where our bottlenecks are more quickly, and we’ve - Joe Resko - VP of Operations, Worthington Industries been able to improve in every area of production.” - Jeremy Morrison - Transformation coordinator, Worthington Industries
The Solution WI kicked off a Smart Factory initiative with the intent of using digitalization, integration, and automation to transform The Result manufacturing operations in two business segments. After 26 months, results from the Smart Factory initiative include: WI implemented L2L’s Smart Manufacturing Platform and integrated it with machine sensors and existing systems to form a unified view of production metrics that had been 350 + HOURS Reduction of unplanned downtime previously tracked on whiteboards and spreadsheets. WI also deployed mobile devices and wearables to get the software onto the shop floor where it could better coordinate teams $ 1,000,000 + Cost avoidance of machine downtime and drive efficiencies.
A cross-functional group consisting of IT, Transformation,
Operations, Reliability, Engineering, and Quality worked together with consultants from L2L to shape the group of technologies into a scalable deployment playbook and a “ “We’re excited about continuing to tie more things into L2L, automate more things, and ultimately use the power of the system to make our plants more successful. L2L is our smart factory platform moving forward.” maturity model that could be replicated across plants. - Justin Skaggs - IT Manager, Worthington Industries
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