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Another story that comes along with this new milestone is that this same crew only a few months earlier had also broken the pre-existing plant record of many years as well. On May 31, they recorded 686,000 lineal feet with 100 percent uptime. “Some keys to our success at Niagara Sheets with a machine that is over 16 years old now has been to contin- ually make the proper investments both on the machine and with supporting equipment through the facility that allow us to increase throughput,” Proefrock said. “It is im- perative that we focus investments towards replacement of obsolescence items on the machine to stay current. The
last thing we want is to be in a position where a failure item is no longer available and leads to extended downtimes.” Using new tools from their software vendor, Amtech, the company has provided visual dashboards in the plant using their Scorekeeper application to help the crew strive to meet production targets and achieve such records. “With the extended efforts of Niagara Sheets mainte- nance staff to continually ensure that all of our support equipment like the boiler, baler, banders, conveyors, etc. are operating at a matching uptime with our BHS corruga- tor, we are able to continually push ourselves to these new targets,” Proefrock said. BHS’ M2P in-house maintenance support has been an- other key player its success. “With a machine uptime hold- ing at nearly 98 percent year-over-year we can make good things like this happen in production,” Proefrock said. “We are happy to have a partnership with BHS that also recognizes our team when efforts like this are achieved by providing us with their long-standing Platinum Performer Award. A plaque to hang in our facility showing the key metrics included in the record-breaking performance.” Niagara Sheets has raised the bar from the previous “600 Club.” “We are very proud of the dedication our crews have in pushing the limits to this new goal. The ‘700 Club’ has now been created and we look forward to adding other production shifts to the new category in our future,” Proe- frock said. Niagara Sheets is a joint venture with an ownership group that includes Jamestown Container, Smurfit We- strock, Cascades, and Buckeye Corrugated. The plant op- erates six to six-and-a-half days per week with four rotat- ing 12-hour shifts. For more information, visit NiagaraSheets.com .
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