Benefiting from over 62 years of experience, OCME is known worldwide as one of the most trusted leaders and innovators within the field of integrated packaging, filling and handling technology. Based in Parma, Italy, OCME manufactures primary and secondary packaging machines including fillers, end-of-line and logistic machines for the beverages, food processing, detergents, petro-chemical and tissue sectors. In addition to being a machine supplier, OCME provides complete ‘turnkey’ lines and complete solutions. OCME prides itself on paying particular attention to the environment and its machines are designed to optimize the use of space, staff, energy, material and time.
OCME OPTIMUS:
In 2014, OCME, taking inspiration from the T.P.S - Toyota Production System, embarked on its own journey to lean transformation. The goal was to create a sustainable system by achieving and maintaining the following key objectives:
- Reduce waste more efficiently;
- Identify effective and efficient lean standards;
- Meet the needs of the market through improving its production processes;
- Foster, encourage and enhance the personal and professional growth of the company’s employees.
- “Kaizen”: one of the supply chain management processes that allows streamlining the flow of material, reducing material handling, and improving production efficiency.
- "Pull": a process that allows the rationalization of time and space by managing the material according to the phases of assembly, eliminating or reducing the material stationing at the factory, and ensuring that the material is available wherever and whenever it is needed.
- "Board production stop": aimed at optimizing the assembly times as well as the production cycle reliability, by solving priority problems, and by focusing on People’s Empowerment.
The VEGA production line (OCME best-selling shrink-wrappers) was the first line to be introduced to the system, achieving notable positive results:
Increased efficiency in assembly time and production;
Reduced time to market delivery;
Increased efficiency in use of space.
These positive results have led to new targets:
Continued consolidation of the activities and increased results on the Vega production line;
Implementation of new solutions and processes to the company’s existing machinery lines (partially initiated as of today);
Improvement in attention to customer needs;
Application of new principles to extend beyond the factory floor and include areas such as technical, commercial, project management, etc.
This path led to the birth of OCME OPTIMUS, a long-term method of business processes organization, with the objective of concentrating the efforts of the whole team on the common goal of meeting the customer’s needs, in an organized and safely operational environment.
During the OCME Open House, which took place on the 26th and 27th of April, 2016, the OCME OPTIMUS system was presented to customers and visitors from various countries that were gathered for a presentation in the company’s "Training Room". In this dedicated lean learning space, working groups and team leaders explained how to obtain the best results from using OCME technology.
