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For over a hundred years, Brabantia has been making products that make everyday life a little more pleasant. Behind those trusted products, however, was a production environment that still ran largely on paper.
"Before we had the MES system, we had far more paperwork, far more administrative hassle, things we still had to enter correctly into the ERP system."
Teun Okhuijsen, Production Planner at Brabantia
Multiple documents, doubt about the latest version, miscommunication between shifts: these were daily obstacles on the floor. Together with Yitch, Brabantia set up a programme to turn that around.
The result speaks for itself. Dozens of machines in the injection moulding department now provide real-time insight into production. Operators and shift leaders know at any moment exactly what needs to be made and transported. And where files full of paper used to be the norm, there is now one central, digital source of truth.
"Instead of all that paper, you simply have everything digitally at your fingertips. You can help the setters, you can help the newcomers, you can help your own colleagues get ahead."
Dana Langens, Operator at Brabantia
At least as important as the technology is how the programme itself unfolded.
"From day one I had a real sense of trust with Yitch. We are searching for a solution together. That sense of trust I had from the very first day is still there today."
Joan Thonissen, Plant Manager at Brabantia
How Brabantia and Yitch went from that mountain of paper to that single source of truth — and what it took on the floor, in planning and in the collaboration — you'll hear in their own words in the full video case study.
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