Case study: what if the machine was never the problem?
Dripping, smearing, product loss on every cycle: the reflex is to buy a new machine. On this peristaltic line dosing viscous products, an audit and a few adjustments were enough — for a 30% OEE improvement.
When a filling station starts dripping, smearing containers and wasting product on every cycle, the conclusion seems obvious: the equipment has reached its limits and must be replaced. That was the request we received on this project — peristaltic dosing of viscous products. Instead of sending a quotation for a new machine, we proposed an audit.
Before: three symptoms, one root cause
- Dripping and smearing after every filling cycle
- Significant product loss — critical with high-value fluids
- Frequent, time-consuming cleaning downtime
Our intervention: an audit, not a quotation
Our technical expertise service came on site to analyse the whole dosing chain, from tubing to nozzle. Two levers were enough:
- Component analysis — tubing and filling needles, whose geometry and material govern how the product stream breaks off
- Fine parameter tuning — pumping speed and suck-back function, adjusted to the actual viscosity of the product
After: the measured result
- Clean cut-off: zero residual dripping
- Maximum precision: consistent, highly accurate filling
- Immediate ROI: waste eliminated and OEE improved by 30%
Behind every production issue, there is often untapped potential. You just have to look for it in the right place.
Technical expertise service, SPC Group
The lesson from this project: a machine that doses poorly is not always a machine to replace. Before committing the budget for new equipment, an audit often recovers the performance already sitting on your shop floor.
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