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Harford Control Ltd.
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- 35 Harford Street, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 7HL (Road Map)
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| Marketing | Gillian Green |
| Number of Employees: | 1 - 20 |
Performance Optimisation
Harford can help you to optimise your production effectiveness through the provision of integrated real time information, automatically collected from your production lines, analysed, prioritised and distributed, in real time, to the desktops of those who can make best use of it. This informs not only of non-conformances, but also corrective actions taken and any improvement opportunities, allowing you to manufacture products of the highest quality at the lowest price.
The Harford Control system brings you the power and flexibility of an integrated information management system, to help you:
Improve yields - better weight and volume control
Minimise downtime - collection and analysis of start, stop and fault data from any line
Eliminate coding errors - get it right first time and eliminate human error
Optimise labour - operator, engineer and supervisor tracking
Right first time quality - proactive checks to ensure quality standards are maintained
Reduce wastage - identify and eliminate the root causes of waste
Minimise paper recording
Optimise overall efficiency
Performance Management System
As market leaders in Line Performance Management Systems and automated Coding and Labelling Compliance, Harford Control have been serving the FMCG manufacturers, particularly in the food and drink sector, for the last thirty years.
Harford's fully integrated factory floor information management system offers a total turnkey solution to reduce exposure to risk, whilst at the same time, providing every opportunity to reduce manufacturing costs and improve profitability.
Our clients (including Diageo, Dairy Crest, Reckitt Benckiser and Unilever) are world class and they demand a world-class information management system, to help them stay ahead.
With Harford's help, some of our clients have been able to totally eliminated coding and labelling errors, whilst increasing their OEE by more than 40%.
Put Harford Control at the heart of your compliance and performance management.
Automated Coding & Labelling Compliance
The new retailers' Codes of Practice put increased pressure on FMCG manufacturers to eliminate or minimise the incidence of coding, labelling and packaging errors, the biggest cause of EPWs and RTMs.
Harford's Compliance Plus system is unique in that it's coding compliance system is an integrated part of an information management system. Ensuring compliance, alone, is a cost on any business, but as part of an integrated information management system which, at the same time, drives performance improvements, it delivers real savings to the bottom line.
Conformance to Plan
In today's increasingly competitive marketplace, Conformance to Plan is the No. 1 KPI for any FMCG manufacturer.
With Harford's Compliance Plus solution, manufacturers ensure that product that goes out, stays out. Using Harford's analysis of line efficiency, downtime, wastage and resource utilisation and more, you can also minimise production costs, making your company more efficient and more competitive.
Line Efficiency, Downtime Analysis & OEE
By collecting data from outputs and PLCs on the production line, the Harford system can analyse lost production time, downtime reasons, MTTR, MTBF, Pareto Analysis (top losses), etc. to give you an instant picture of where improvements need to be made to maximise production efficiencies.
Companies using the Harford solution have improved their OEE by more than 40%.
Automated Short Interval Control
Many companies use white boards to show Short Interval Control, a useful but time consuming and often incomplete practice.
Harford offer a real time Short Interval Control analysis automatically showing results by the hour, which can be displayed on terminals at the production line and/or on large monitors in the production area, to encourage real time improvement actions.
Quality Control/Assurance
Using Right First Time Quality principles, the Harford solution, with the use of scanning and vision systems, helps the production of high quality products every time, ensuring that the only thing returning to you is your customers.
Portable Data Capture
Where use of static touch screen terminals is not appropriate, the Harford solution uses hand held portable data capture units, ideal for roving quality checks, audits, warehouse checks, engineer line attendance, HACCP checks, etc. These communicate with the Harford central file server, downloading and uploading data, as required.
Weight Control/Legal Metrology
The Harford weight control programme, using such tools as statistical process control, allows the manufacturer to minimise overfill at every opportunity, with minimal operator intervention. This allows you to remain legal, whilst reducing raw material usage and overfill costs to a minimum.
Harford's Industrial Hardware
The use of office-type hardware as file servers and computer terminals in most industrial environments will rarely deliver the desired levels of reliability or confidence.
Harford use in-house designed, built for purpose, hardware to IP66/67 standard, constructed from food grade stainless steel and completely hoseable, to cope with the most rigorous demands of your production environment.
Harford's Uniqueness
Many companies offer coding and labelling compliance, whilst others offer cost reduction or control systems, efficiency or quality systems.
Harford are unique in that they bring together all these modules within a single integrated system, giving you, the manufacturer, a total production picture, in real time, rather than just "a patchwork quilt of control" (Sir John Harvey-Jones).
As the Harford solution is modular, it can be added to, at a later date, whenever you are ready to expand its level of control and production intelligence.
Service & Support
Harford's reputation for excellent service support is second to none.
All Harford hardware and software is normally supplied as a turnkey solution, including a 12 month on-site warranty, ensuring next working day on-site service, together with hotline telephone and VPN support.
We also offer an Extended Warranty contract, which can include weekend and bank holiday cover, if required.
The Harford Partnership
Harford's customers enjoy the benefits of a real working partnership.
We believe that, for any new integrated information management system to work well, and for improvements and cultural changes to take place and be maintained, a spirit of teamwork and partnership between customer and supplier is vital.
So the installation of a new system in a customer's premises is only the beginning. Our service support, on-site and telephone hotline, our training programmes, auditing and consultancy, all play a vital role in cultivating and maintaining strong and ongoing partnerships with our customers.
We want you to get the best and keep on getting the best from your Harford solution.
Management Consultancy
Harford's uniqueness is not limited to the installation of integrated information management systems. We also help your business improve through expert management consultancy.
Key areas of expertise include:
- Lean Manufacturing Implementation
- Value Stream Mapping
- Loss Analysis
- HACCP/FMEA
- Six Sigma
- SPC and Process Capability
- SMED
- Short Interval Control
- KPI Alignment
- TPM
- OEE/Efficiency
- Integration
Leasing
As an alternative to outright purchase, leasing is a method of funding which keeps money in your business rather than tied up in depreciating assets, with regular payments over a time frame to suit you. In today's financial climate, it is a very cost effective alternative to paying cash.
The main principle of leasing is that it is the use of the equipment, rather than its ownership, that produces benefits, so your company can reap the benefits and paybacks of use from day one, with just one modest deposit paid in advance. Whilst you are gaining an immediate return on your investment, you can pay back the remaining balance over a 3, 4 or 5 year period, at regular monthly or quarterly intervals.
Leasing, apart from improving cash flow, also releases your capital for growth and development opportunities.
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Products and Services
- Advanced Software Products
- Analysis Equipment - Beverage
- Analysis Equipment - Food
- Analysis Equipment - Process Control
- Asset Care
- Asset Data Collection
- Automated Data Capture
- Automated Equipment
- Automated Production Line Set-up
- Automated Quality Inspection Equipment
- Automated Short Interval Control
- Average Quantity Law
- Barcode - Equipment
- Barcode - Readers
- Barcode Readers - 2D
- Barcode Scanning
- Batch Control Equipment
- Business Equipment - Leasing
- Business Performance Management
- Business Process Consultants - Continuous Improvement
- Business Systems - Information Management
- Calibrating Specialists - Weighing Equipment
- Calibration - Test Equipment
- Calibration and Repair Services - Balancing Equipment
- Coding And Labelling Compliance
- Compliance Specialists
- Computer Data and Media Storage Equipment
- Computer Display Equipment
- Computer Displays, Monitors, Terminals and Input Output (IO) Devices
- Computer Vision System
- Consultants - Business Performance Management
- Consultants - Business Process Improvement
- Consultants - Business Systems
- Consultants - Management, Information Systems
- Consultants - Process Control
- Consultants - Process Management
- Consultants - Productivity Improvement
- Consultants - Risk Management
- Consultants - Systems Analysis
- Consumer Goods - Fast Moving
- Consumer Packaged Goods
- Continuous Process Control Systems
- Continuous Training
- Control and Monitoring - Equipment
- Control and Monitoring - Software
- Control Systems - Design and Manufacture
- Cost Of Quality Reduction
- Customer Premises Training
- Customer Training
- Data Acquisition
- Data Acquisition - Archiving
- Data Acquisition Systems
- Data Analysis
- Data Analysis and Processing
- Data Capture
- Data Capture - Electronic, Equipment
- Data Capture - Systems, Equipment
- Data Capture - Terminals
- Data Collect Equipment
- Data Matrix Coding - 2D
- Data Matrix Readers, Verifiers
- Data Processing Specialists
- Database Analysis
- Due Diligence
- Embedded Computer Systems
- Embedded Control Systems
- Embedded Systems Software
- Embedded Systems Solutions
- Energy Monitoring Systems
- Equipment - Process Control
- Equipment - Quality Control
- Equipment - Temperature Control
- Equipment - Test and Measurement
- Factory Floor Information Management
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Training
- Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) - Retail Industry
- Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Manufacturers
- Hand Held Portable Data Capture Units
- HMI - Human Machine Interfaces
- HMI - Text Display
- Indicators - Process Control
- Industrial - Process Control
- Industrial - Traceability
- Industrial Data Terminals
- Information Management
- Inspection Equipment - Automated
- Instruments - Process Control
- Integrated Information Management Systems
- Integrated Vision Solution
- Key Performance Indicators
- Labels - Inspection Equipment
- Lean Manufacturing
- Lean Six Sigma Specialists
- Lease Plans
- Lease Purchase
- Leasing
- Legal Metrology
- Line Performance Optimisation
- Machine Vision - Inspection
- Machine Vision Systems
- Machinery - Process Control
- Management Consultants
- Management Information Systems Software
- Management Training
- Manuals - Training
- Manufacturing - Software Solutions
- Manufacturing Control Software
- Manufacturing Control Systems
- Manufacturing Execution Systems - MES
- Material Management Services
- Measurement and Control - Equipment
- Operating Software - Real Time
- Operator Training
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness - OEE
- Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE)
- Pareto Analysis
- Performance Improvement Services
- Performance Management Software
- Performance Optimisation
- Planned Maintenance Programmes
- Plant Data Analysis
- Plant Information Management Systems
- Portable Data Capture
- Problem Solving and Root Cause Analysis Training
- Process Analysis
- Process Capability Improvement
- Process Control - Instrumentation
- Process Control - Instrumentation, Calibration
- Process Control - Plc Systems
- Process Control - Software
- Process Control - Systems
- Production and Management Optimisation Systems
- Production Control
- Production Control Systems
- Production Line Equipment - Custom
- Production Management
- Production Monitoring Systems
- Quality and Measurement - Audits
- Quality Assurance - Services
- Quality Control
- Quality Control - 100% Inspection
- Quality Control Specialists
- Quality Improvement
- Quality Management
- Quality Management Systems
- Quality Monitoring
- Quality Systems
- Real Time - Graphic Display and Process Trends
- Real Time Embedded Systems
- Real Time Information Management
- Real Time Systems
- Risk Management - Specialists
- Root Cause Analysis - RCA
- Scales - Weighing Equipment
- Shop Floor Data Capture - Software
- Short Interval Control
- Software - Analysis
- Software - Asset Management
- Software - Critical Path Analysis
- Software - Data Acquisition
- Software - Embedded Systems
- Software - Engineering Analysis Tools
- Software - Graphing and Analysis
- Software - Integrated Business Systems
- Software - Machine Vision
- Software - MIS
- Software - Operating Systems
- Software - Process Analysis
- Software - Production Control
- Software - Production Management
- Software - Quality Management
- Software - Real Time Operating System
- Software - Total Quality Management (tqm)
- Software - Traceability
- Software Programming - HMI
- Statistical Process Control
- Statistical Process Control (SPC)
- Supervisory Training
- Temperature Measurement Equipment
- Temperature Test Equipment - HACCP
- Test and Control Equipment
- Test and Measurement Equipment - Supplier
- Test Equipment - Quality Control
- Test Equipment - Torque
- Test Equipment - Torque and Force
- Torque - Measurement
- Torque Control Equipment
- Torque Limiting Equipment - Electronic
- Torque Measuring Equipment
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Total Quality Management - TQM
- Traceability Systems
- Training - Compliance
- Training - Customised Training
- Training - Lean Manufacturing
- Training - Machine Vision
- Training - Measurement and Control
- Training - Measurement And Inspection
Last Updated: 05-Apr-2012
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