Harford Control Ltd.

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Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

Harford can help you to optimise your overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) 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 overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) 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

Automated Coding and Labelling

Automated Coding and Labelling

The new retailers' Codes of Practice put increased pressure on FMCG manufacturers to eliminate or minimise the incidence of automated coding and labelling and packaging errors, the biggest cause of EPWs and RTMs. 

Harford's Compliance Plus system is unique in that it's automated coding and labelling 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.

Performance Management System

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.

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 and OEE

Line Efficiency, Downtime Analysis and 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

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

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

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

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

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.

We believe that even the best, most effective system solutions will deliver greater performance improvement when supported by consultant trainers with experience in fields of knowledge transfer, Six Sigma, TPM, OEE, HACCP and Lean Manufacturing.
We can help your business achieve dramatic and sustained reductions in costs, together with quality and efficiency improvements, which together transform operational effectiveness.
 
All consultancy services are tailor-made to your individual requirements.

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

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.

Some leased items can also be classed as 'off balance sheet' and for customers who pay UK taxation, it's a very tax efficient way of purchasing capital equipment.

Leasing, apart from improving cash flow, also releases your capital for growth and development opportunities.

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Last Updated: 02-Apr-2013