PRISM Plastics is a high-precision plastic products manufacturing company, which heavily invests in technology and equipment and believes in precisely controlled processes. These processes are organizationally thin and lean, which helps the company to keep costs down and produce quality products as demand consistently increases.<\/p>\n
Each of their three facilities\u2014the Chesterfield Facility, the Port Huron Facility, and The Harlingen Texas facility\u2014is under 30 thousand square feet, which they believe allows them to focus on and respond to customer needs, but also allows each factory to focus on the type of products customer\u2019s are looking for.<\/p>\n
Another factor that makes PRISM Plastics such a unique manufacturing company is their use of Controlled Process. They believe that controlled processes leads to process control. According to PRISM Plastics\u2019 CEO, \u201cWe control our process from the initial quote through accounts receivable, and everything in between. This includes production monitoring, inventory, accounting, preventative maintenance, and program management, quoting and shipping. We deploy the best practices in all of our systems and facilities, which equates to elimination of waste and variation.\u201d<\/p>\n
This production model carried over to the company\u2019s Chesterfield, Missouri facility, which was established in 2012 and is the third PRISM plant established. The plant features state of the art automated molding equipment in a clean climate controlled facility. Shortly after construction of their Chesterfield facility, production managers invested in an electric press (also known as an EMT), which is the machine they use to manufacture their plastic products using an injection molding process. The machine consists of two main parts, an injection unit and a clamping unit, making it an essential step in the manufacturing process.<\/p>\n
This type of electric machine technology reduces operation costs by cutting energy consumption and eliminating environmental concerns surrounding hydraulic press machinery. Electric presses are quieter, faster, and have excellent accuracy, however, they are very expensive.<\/p>\n
Once the electric press machine was installed in their new facility, engineers and production workers began to notice a hole in the production process: they needed a simple, cost-effective lift solution to safely remove molded components from the top of the electric press machine and to take on other material handling tasks throughout the 30 thousand square-foot facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1553","case_study","type-case_study","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n