3rd Jan 2007
SHOPtrack: HERO's hero
Hero Motors Limited is a part of the HERO GROUP which is a multi billion dollar group with diverse interests in manufacturing, engineering design, corporate services, and value added engineering. It has high quality processes and a world class technical team in place to deliver the best solutions in engineering. Its highly motivated engineers constantly seek newer technologies to retain their competitive edge in the global market.
Hero Motors Limited has installed Cadem's wireless SHOPtrack on 18 critical machines that produce engine and transmission parts for auto industries.
Ankur Gupta, AGM and Shekhar Sinha, Manager Machine Shop of Hero Motors Limited,
with their Makino A55e fitted with mPOD.
"Earlier, production data was being collected manually from each machine every hour. It was a person-specific job and therefore slow and inaccurate sometimes. Now with SHOPtrack the quality of reporting has greatly improved." says Mr. Ankur Gupta , AGM - Production of Hero Motors Ltd.
Mr. Shekhar Sinha, Manager Machine Shop observes, "Production in the night shift has increased dramatically. I get hourly production reports automatically at my desk by email. Within a short period of installing SHOPtrack, we could see that some machines were over producing at times and this was affecting our tool life figures. We could take instant corrective steps to stop this practice of over producing.
SHOPtrack is proving to be hero of the Hero Motors shopfloor.