World-leading Ilford Photo chose PlantRun to track their 35 mm film production

Now that everyone with a smartphone has a camera in their pocket, you might find it surprising that black and white film is still being made in the UK. Harman Technology manufactures the ILFORD PHOTO brand and is the only manufacturer in the world to provide a full range of black & white film and darkroom products.

The manufacturing process for their black and white film uses complex, aging machinery and when the company looked to improve production efficiency, rather than upgrade it they chose to install a PlantRun System from Tascomp of Billingham.

The Senator Group is one of Europe’s largest office furniture manufacturers, with a team of more than one thousand people, an annual turnover in excess of £100 million and an export business that ships all over the world. When the company wanted a way to monitor assembly performance on an individual cell level they chose PlantRun.

KMF are a UK market leading supplier of precision sheet metal and contract manufacturing solutions to a diverse range of industry sectors. Formed in 1971, KMF has grown into one of the UK's largest and most successful sheet metal manufacturing plants.

A PlantRun Manufacturing Production System is enabling Donaldson Filter Components to improve production efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs at their filter manufacturing facility in Hull, UK.

PlantRun shop floor data collection systems have been chosen by ESAB, a world leading manufacturer of welding consumables and equipment, to support an ongoing introduction of Lean manufacturing techniques to its factories.

As a result of month on month improvements in OEE enabled by a PlantRun system at John Dewar and Sons Ltd (JDSL) Glasgow site Bacardi Group has implemented PlantRun at Martini Rossi SPA Italy.