Nisthora for printing and packaging converting.
Printing presses, slitters and box-making lines run at set speeds, and every make-ready and web break costs time and material. Nisthora tracks speed, output, waste and stops on each press.
What gets in the way.
Make-ready time
Setting up a new job can take longer than the run.
Waste
Start-up waste and web breaks cost material as well as time.
Reels and jobs
Each job and reel needs to be traced for the customer.
What Nisthora connects to and measures.
Machines
- Offset, flexo and gravure presses
- Slitter-rewinders
- Laminators
- Die cutters
- Folder-gluers
- Corrugators
Readings
- Impressions or metres
- Press speed
- Run / stop signal
- Waste count
- Web tension
- Dryer temperature
Typical stop reasons
- Make-ready
- Web break
- Plate or cylinder change
- Colour adjustment
- Waiting for reel
- Quality hold
These are common examples. Each plant names its own machines and lines, and sets up its own stop reasons, in the words its team uses.
Mixed
Reel and job numbers exist anyway, and food-contact packaging inherits food traceability rules. Nisthora's batch records hold the press, shift, readings and stops for each run.
A day with Nisthora
A carton plant sees make-ready as its biggest loss. Each press's make-ready time is shown per job, so the fastest crew's method can be written down and shared.
Example for illustration.
Built for plants like yours.
Live OEE per press
Availability, performance and quality for every press, live.
Tap-only machine panel
Operators press Start and Stop, and tap a picture for the stop reason.
Downtime Pareto
The few stop reasons that cost the most, sorted for you.
Maintenance forecast
Which press needs maintenance in the next 30 days, and why.
Anomaly detection
Flags readings that look unusual for that press.
Alerts
Limits on any reading, sent in-app, by email, SMS, push or webhook.
Root cause and fishbone
Find why a problem keeps coming back, and prove the fix.
Works with your PLCs
OPC UA, Modbus, Siemens S7, EtherNet/IP, MQTT and HTTP.
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See howSee Nisthora in a printing plant.
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