Sandvik Mining and Construction’s plant in Turku manufactures loading and hauling machinery. The plant employs around 500 people, who cover all business areas from product development to sales and manufacturing.
The plant had challenges in production monitoring and the flow of information; the production controller had to find out directly from production how the work was proceeding, and then adapt the production plan accordingly. There was a lot of manual work involved, and not enough information of the problem areas available.