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Manufacturers have improved productivity immensely – in one case here by 54% – by collecting very simple data from their shop floors. Some have even recorded significant productivity hikes without actually doing anything with the data they collected! However, shop floor data capture (SFDC) projects can be as long as a piece of string, so the key to achieving improvements is judging exactly what information is likely to be useful, and how often it needs to be collected. Often, simple is best, as soft and freeze drinks manufacturer Calypso Soft Drinks found out
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