Project: A multinational pharmaceutical and OTC medicine business invited Lauras International to work with the company's Oral Care product site and assess the opportunity for increasing the OEE of the packing lines to 70%, reviewing the manufacturing, packing and planning operations. Paste Manufacture Background This multinational pharmaceutical and OTC medicine business also manufactures a number of leading brand oral care products at one of its sites. The site had installed a number of high-speed tube filling and packing lines that had historically been running at efficiencies in the 38 to 50% OEE range. The site produces in excess of 1000 different product and pack variations for both the UK and international markets. The in-house CI team had been focussed very much on reducing headcou

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