Bringing Transparency and Situational Awareness to The Shopfloor – Factory Cockpit at Tasowheel
Tasowheel is a Finnish family-owned contract manufacturer founded in 1979. The company has established itself as…
Lyndsey and Colin visit Frestems near Tampere, Finland to learn about their flexible management systems and strong relationship with Fastems, a world leader in manufacturing automated solutions! Hear the story from Ari-Matti Vuorenoja and Philip Cattaneo, who explain flexibility, efficiency, and automation with the FPC (flexible pallet container) installed on Frestems’ machine. Ari’s team wanted to improve productivity for increased efficiency & output. The FPC is a modular plug-and-play system that allows Frestems to have all their pallets set up with their fixtures, ready and pre-programmed, ultimately reducing setup time. It lets multiple jobs run on the same pallet and customers can choose when to run those jobs. The Manufacturing Management System or MMS comes as a standard control installed on all Fastems solutions for production management, indicating availability, by when those parts can be made, and whether the customer can achieve those dates or not! Watch the video to find out how manufacturing has changed radically for Frestems who have their next machine on its way to be integrated with the FPC system.
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