How Cara Partners Improved Equipment Availability by 10%
Cara Partners, part of the Schwabe Group, is a bulk pharmaceutical manufacturer based in Cork, Ireland. Operating in a GMP-regulated environment, the team needed a more dependable way to monitor production performance as demands on the site increased.
As production scaled, downtime became a more important factor in overall line performance. To support a more reliable approach to performance review, Cara Partners selected EviView as a manufacturing business intelligence platform for production monitoring and analysis.
The operational challenge
Production growth exposed the limits of manual processes
Downtime measurement and production analysis depended on manual data collection and calculation. As output increased, this approach required significant effort and made performance review harder to sustain.
Existing methods were no longer sufficient
With downtime becoming more important to track, the team needed a more practical way to monitor equipment effectiveness and support continuous improvement.
The solution
Cara Partners implemented EviView to reduce manual reporting effort and establish a more reliable basis for production monitoring.
The platform gave the team access to downtime and equipment effectiveness data in a format that supported day-to-day decision-making, while also enabling a more proactive maintenance approach. It was introduced alongside systems already in use on site.
The story behind the results
The project led to a 10% increase in equipment availability and a 5% gain in OEE. The full case study explains the operational context, the implementation approach, and what changed in practice.
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