Citect MES in battery plant

Energizer Holdings, Inc has awarded Citect a contract to implement a manufacturing execution system (MES) solution in one of its alkaline battery plants in the US, with plans to add more plants within the year.

Energizer joins top global companies BHP Billiton, WMC Resources, Mitsubishi Motors and Consol Energy, who have been using CitectIIM solutions to make significant savings through increased uptime, production and total capacity gains, says Citect.

The initial project consists of the CitectIIM Performance solution that provides visibility into plant processes to support the continuous improvement platform for Energizer's alkaline battery division. CitectIIM will allow Energizer to monitor each aspect of the production process, thus enabling the company to optimise overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). In order to increase OEE, massive amounts of data generated by each piece of equipment in a production line must be collected and analysed to determine the factors that impact production and quality. The relevant data then must be filtered out and presented in a user-friendly format in order to discover the root cause disturbances that slow production or impact quality.