One post tagged with "scrap-reduction"

Scrap in plastics manufacturing isn't a single event — it's a slow accumulation of process variables drifting outside their optimal windows. A barrel zone running 8°F hot. An extruder screw wearing down imperceptibly over months. A coolant line scaling at 1% per week. None of these individually trigger an alarm. Together, they push scrap rates from an acceptable 2% to a margin-killing 6% — and the root cause is invisible without data.

Real-time monitoring changes this equation. When every extruder, injection molder, and blow molder on the floor is streaming process data to a central platform, the patterns that create scrap become visible — and correctable — before they reach the finished parts.