Fleet Management for Multi-Plant Plastics Operations: Centralized Visibility Across 50–500+ Machines
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Running a single plastics plant is complex enough. When you scale to two, three, or ten facilities — each with dozens of injection molding presses, extruders, blow molding machines, and secondary operations — complexity doesn't just increase. It multiplies.
The plant manager at your Wisconsin facility is tracking cycle times on 40 injection presses. Your Texas extrusion site runs 15 lines around the clock. Your Mexico plant handles secondary operations — trimming, assembly, pad printing. Each facility has its own tribal knowledge, its own definition of "good," and its own spreadsheets tracking downtime.
This is where fleet management becomes the difference between scaling successfully and drowning in operational blind spots.