Sabo is a world leader in the development and production of specialty chemicals and ingredients used in a wide range of markets, including additives for plastics, cosmetic ingredients, and specialty chemicals for industrial applications.

Management has realized the importance of being prepared for the external turbulence of an uncertain and uncontrollable world of increasing complexity and global challenges that shake up the relevant contexts.

Therefore, he decided to implement a Lean&Digital transformation thanks to the support of Bonfiglioli Consulting and its innovative startup Digibelt, capable of providing a platform of applications designed for the manufacturing industry.

With a view to digitizing an already optimized process, the project focused first on the Lean Transformation part and then on the Digitization part.

In particular, four projects were activated:

Project 8Plus: With the aim of increasing the productivity of 8% through activities of:

Autonomous Maintenance Project: with the goal of increasing the technical availability of the plants by reducing unscheduled downtime (due, for example, to extraordinary cleaning activities). Project activities were:

Project Planning: with the aim of increasing the level of customer service and plant saturation through the following activities:

In addition, a platform was designed and developed that interconnects the ERP with the scheduler and the fleet in IoT (Internet of Things) logic through the software Collect&Analize. An MES interface was then created in the Control Room to view real-time information, and an interactive panel was created for the Flash Meeting with graphs of OEE, losses and productivity in interactive dashboards.