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Posted:  22 Sep 2008 02:37

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Power outages can cause major problems on the production floor and Members of MAPP would like to informally benchmark the frequency power outages negatively impact your business.

Please list if and how many times per year a power outage shuts down your production operations.

Troy Nix
Posted:  22 Sep 2008 02:39

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Our power is pretty reliable as we experience about 6 outages per year the impact our plastics production operations.

Scott Titzer
Posted:  22 Sep 2008 02:42

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Typically, we lose power about once per year in which our production operations are effected.

Mike Walter
Posted:  22 Sep 2008 02:45

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The negative impact that outages seem to have on our injection molding business seem a little bit more extreme than those who have replied so far to this benchmarking posting.  Our operation hovers around 8-10 times per year where the power impacts our manufacturing operations.

Tom Duffey
Posted:  22 Sep 2008 02:51

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Often times when our power flickers, our injection molding machines will go down.  Because of this, we have a policy where we wait 30 minutes before starting our machines after a flicker or complete outage.  We've done this because it seems more likely that another flicker or power outage will immediately follow the first.

As a side note, since we are charged on peek demand, we installed capacitors for power factor correction and this has helped from a cost standpoint.

Lindsey Hahn
Posted:  23 Sep 2008 16:33

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We used to have an extreme problem with this issue.  It has been better in the last three years.  We run 7 days a week and thus only have 6 plant startups a year and thus startups are unusual for us.  We are probably only down 6 times per year where we used to be closer to once a month. 

Lindsey has a great point about the power factor correction really reducing your costs.  We have also worked with our power suppliers and since we are at the end of the power run we have utilized other area power suppliers with a switch near our plant to keep us up and running when our original power supplier has issues.

Dennis Kelley

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