Contributing to nutritional autonomy for all: this is the main challenge facing the Nutriset group, which has been developing unique expertise in the fight against malnutrition for over 30 years.
Bringing together 10 partners and operating in 10 countries, the group focuses its activities on 3 main sectors: research, production and distribution of therapeutic foods to offer new solutions tailored to vulnerable populations.
The implementation of TeepTrak
In order to refocus operators on value-added tasks and maintain a high level of productivity, Nutriset installed the first TeepTrak tablet at its Malaunay site (Normandy) in 2016.
We asked Sylvain Clausse from the Maintenance Department about this, and he explained that “Before TeepTrak, downtime feedback was done on paper with pre-filled downtimes, but this solution was rather unreliable since downtime was very subjective, and many downtimes were forgotten due to lack of time or rigor.
Nutriset a choisi TEEPTRAK pour sa simplicité d’installation mais également pour le site de supervision qui permet à tous les opérateurs ainsi qu’aux managers d’avoir accès aux informations en temps réel.
Although some of the operators were apprehensive about monitoring tools in general, they quickly realized that TeepTrak solutions would improve their working conditions. According to Sylvain Clausse “The teams in the field were very receptive to TeepTrak’s solutions, because they understood that this tool could help them not only to record stoppages, but also to analyze their recurring machine breakdowns.
Today, over 22 systems support operators at the Malaunay plant. This site is also equipped with the MoniTrak application, which sheds light on the state of production thanks to indicators, product counting, loss pareto… And all this in real time, on a large screen.
The benefits of TeepTrak solutions
In just a few weeks, TeepTrak has enabled the Malaunay plant to achieve its objectives and contribute to the cause supported by Nutriset. The solutions enable the plant to maintain a high level of productivity, production costs to remain stable, and the selling price to be reduced so that Nutriset products can be offered to as many people as possible.
In addition “We paid off all the TeepTrak solutions in 1 month! We were able to eliminate a maximum number of what we call “irritants”, i.e. the little 3-4-second stoppages that sometimes occur fifty or a hundred times a shift. “
These years of collaboration have also enabled TeepTrak and Nutriset to develop new products, notably for real-time monitoring of machine processes (temperature, pressure, volumetry, etc.) and certain functions of the supervision site.