Reducing Energy costs for Plastic Manufacturers

Executive White PaperReducing Energy costs for Plastic ManufacturersThe Role of Constraint Based Planning and SchedulingCopyright 2007 Logility, Inc. All rights part of this publication may be produced, stored in a retrieval system ortransmitted in any form without the express permission of Logility, of ContentsExecutive Summary ..3 The plastics Industry ..4 Energy Consumption: The Importance of Activity Based Costing When Planning ..6 Optimising Machine Routing and Mould Allocation Decisions ..7 Reducing Mould Changeovers and Machine Idling ..8 Demand Smoothing ..9 Improved Visibility and Control ..10 Accurate Production Budgets ..12 Powerful What-If Analysis ..12 Conclusions ..14 About Logility ..15 Related Information ..16 Table of FiguresFigure 1 - Number of UK Plastic Processors defined by process ..4 Figure 2 - Typical Energy consumption associated with an injection moulding plant ..7 Figure 3 - Key Performance Indicators illustrate the tradeoff between plant utilisation, product cost, changeover frequency and inventory value.

5 There are three main reasons documented within the industry for this state of the plastics economy: • Most significant is that oil prices have become more volatile over recent years, leading to significant

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