IRIS applied to lithographed metal packaging manufacturing
Lithographed metal packaging factories manufacture the container — not the product inside it — for two very different worlds: food (oil, preserves, meat products) and industrial chemicals. Both share the same critical process: lithography, varnishing with oven curing, forming and batch coding.
This sub-sector's recurring pain is full traceability of the coil, the varnish and the batch all the way to the pallet — and holding the same quality bar when manufacturing is split across more than one plant. IRIS/iLEAN covers this matrix with Connect (capturing work orders, lithography spec sheets, delivery notes and lab spreadsheets), Edge (visual print control and critical-change validation) and Agents (an auditable evidence pack for BRC Packaging Materials and ISO 9001).
Capture without changing habits: photo, voice, email, integrations
The litho run, captured at startup
Payback 4-9 months · from 4-8 h of latency to instant
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The curing curve, read from outside
Payback 5-10 months · oven replacement capex deferred
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The coil delay, read in seconds
Payback 3-7 months · no 90-minute stoppage waiting to decide
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The line manager dictates while walking
No standalone payback · enabling piece
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Nothing enters the ERP unvalidated
No standalone payback · enabling piece
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The migration spreadsheet reaches the ERP
Payback 4-9 months · up to 80% fewer lab licenses
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Coil receiving with the right heat number
Payback 3-8 months · from 45 minutes at the dock to 5
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The coder, fed by the ERP
Payback 3-6 months · zero human-origin coding errors
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More cases from this series
- The lab spreadsheet stops living in a world apart from the ERPiLEAN absorbs the lab's varnish migration and adhesion spreadsheet and pushes it to the ERP after…
- The truck no longer waits while the delivery note is typedA photo of the delivery note and heat-number labels digitizes tinplate receiving and pushes it to the…
- A supplier alert that doesn't cost 90 minutes of stopped lineiLEAN reads a coil delay alert instantly and replans the work order before the lithography line stops.
- The curing curve, without touching the ovenAn external camera digitizes the varnish curing curve of an isolated vintage oven, with no replacement…
- Nothing enters the central system without human validationEvery iLEAN capture passes through a tablet with a visual summary before crossing into the ERP: the…
- Information that no longer dies at the end of the shiftWith a Bluetooth earpiece, the line manager dictates issues while walking and iLEAN structures and saves…
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