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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Clorox Selects Epicor Informance for Chicago Manufacturing Facility

The Clorox Company is a global manufacturer of food, chemical, and consumer products. Best known for namesake bleach product, Clorox, the company’s manufacturing site in Chicago, Illinois is responsible for producing a large portfolio of its bleach products to serve the Midwestern United States. This high-speed, mixed-mode manufacturing plant operates 24/5, running two 8 to 10-hour production shifts per day, and on average produces nearly 15,000 cases per shift.

Clorox had several challenges that needed to be overcome. Those included:
• Replace manual processes with automated data capture and accurate, consistent efficiency metrics
• Boost overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
• Build a culture of understanding and driving out losses on the plant floor
• Accurately benchmark against other plants across the Clorox cleaning products division

After reviewing several different vendors, Epicor Informance was selected and fully implemented within two months. Informance provides the ability to track all key production components of the site’s molding and packaging lines, including 15 individual machines.

Additional benefits of utilizing the Epicor Informance Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) system included:

• Real-time scorecards and scoreboards on the shop floor
• Easy-to-use, easy-to-understand visual solution to drive root cause analysis
• Out-of-the-box visibility, reporting, and analysis for fast time-to-value
• Pre-implementation project ensured successful startup at go-live

Epicor Software Corporation delivers business software solutions to the manufacturing, distribution, retail, and service industries. With more than 40 years of experience, Epicor has more than 20,000 customers in over 150 countries.

To read more about the Clorox Manufacturing case study, visit the Epicor Customer Success News blog.

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