Illustrative sample. The plant, the weeks and the footage are synthetic.

Pythia Industries
Sample Plant
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Going well

Capture your own regrind

This week

  1. Every active job is being checked for how much reused plastic its customer allows. No grinder is bought until that is known.

  2. The purchase records and the job list were already in the ERP, so work began the day after approval.

  3. We read the plant's plastic purchases in the ERP. Which jobs may use reused plastic sits in customer drawings and orders, so each job is being checked by hand.

  4. No scrap is reused yet, and the check of which jobs may use it has just started.

  5. Check the jobs that use the most plastic first, since they decide most of the saving.

    Who owns it: Materials lead (Jenna Walsh)

Week by week

  1. Week 1
  2. Week 2
  3. Week 3
  4. Week 4
  5. Week 5
  6. Week 6
  7. Week 7
  8. Week 8

Approved

41 days ago

Going well

5 of 6 weeks

Worth

$86K / yr

  1. Week 3Approved
  2. Week 3This reportEvery active job is being checked for how much reused plastic its customer allows.
  3. Week 4The biggest jobs are now sorted by whether their customer allows no reused plastic, some up to a limit, or any amount.
  4. Week 5Every active job is now checked for whether it may use reused plastic, and the first grinders are on order.
  5. Week 6The first grinders were due this week but did not arrive.
  6. Week 7The first grinders arrived and now run beside their presses, sending scrap straight back into the same job.
  7. Week 8In their first full week, the grinders sent all the scrap from their presses back into the same jobs.

Improvement: Capture your own regrind