As a key sector of the economy, manufacturing is essential for powering economic growth, creating meaningful jobs, facilitating global trade, advancing innovation, and bolstering community partnerships. Manufacturing plants and warehouses worldwide depend on dedicated employees, production machinery, and standardized operating procedures to create usable products for the public and businesses alike, while simultaneously meeting production output goals.
What do employees, machinery, and procedures need to share to make plants and warehouses successful? The answer is consistent mutual understanding and clear communication, which can be both facilitated by facilitywide synchronized timekeeping and easy-to-see visual messaging.
A facility equipped with Primex Sync™ Synchronized Time and Primex Notify™ InfoBoard™ Displays is a facility set up for success.
Benefits of Synchronized Time in Warehouses and Manufacturing Facilities with a Primex Sync Solution
When every clock, analog or digital, throughout your manufacturing plant or warehouse displays the same, synchronous time, it helps things like assembly line production runs, shift changes, and employee breaks all start and end precisely when they’re supposed to. Following these schedules helps floor supervisors coordinate workflows more effectively, reducing the negative consequences that a few late starts or early stops can have on daily throughput.
When assembly line staff work alongside the same posted time, they can better follow standardized work instructions and time limits, limiting minor mistakes. Over the course of a workday, these small-mistake avoidance strategies can translate into more units produced, fewer missed deadlines, and a higher on‑time product delivery rate.
Additionally, consistent timekeeping plays a key role in minimizing machinery downtime. When all machine-facing staff members follow the same schedule, they can:
- Utilize machinery as intended, minimizing the opportunity for workplace-related injury
- Follow planned tasks together to limit unexpected assembly line stops
- Better work around scheduled cleaning or routine maintenance time
Primex Sync offers both wired and wireless synchronized time solutions to fit any-size warehouse or manufacturing facility. Whether via the wireless patented Radio 72 MHz, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth® Low Energy, or the wired Power over Ethernet option, all clocks in your facilty would receive synchronized time and automatically update for daylight saving time every spring and fall. No matter the Primex Sync technology your plant or warehouse has, it keeps everyone working alongside the same, synchronized time to streamline operations and maximize output.
Benefits of Visual Communication in Warehouses and Manufacturing Facilities with Primex Notify
In fast‑paced, oft-loud warehouse and plant environments, audio announcements, overhead paging, and verbal instructions can easily go unheard or misunderstood. Given that the average conveyor systems average up to 95 dB when in use, and 85 dB is the threshold for being unable to hear conversations, it’s easy to understand how audible emergency communication could be ineffective. These messages are especially easy to miss when staff are wearing required hearing protection.
Primex Notify InfoBoard Displays are LED message boards that provide easy-to-see visual communication that reaches all employees, whether on the floor, in loading docks, or in remote work areas. At the press of a button, this supplemental visual communication tool provides a critical notification, such as LOCKDOWN, WEATHER, EVACUATE, LOCKOUT, or ALL CLEAR, to ensure that this emergency communication is seen and received quickly without relying on word‑of‑mouth communication or audio announcements.
Beyond sending emergent critical notification, users can also configure InfoBoard Displays to show other critical messages — RUNNING, CHANGEOVER, DOWN, QUALITY CHECK, or SAFE TO ENTER, for example — and in different colors, including red, green, and yellow, perhaps to support the Andon Lean Manufacturing system. The text-based and color-coded messages also reach individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, helping to create or strengthen a safety-forward, inclusive workplace.
When connected with the web-based OneVue® software platform, the Notify InfoBoard Displays can also exhibit customized messages instead of preset critical notifications. Within the platform, users can create safety reminders, forklift traffic routes, or schedule real-time updates to empower employees with facility-specific knowledge. Additional messages that share production updates, output goals, quality metrics, or upcoming events can further help build staff camaraderie and mutual understanding to improve overall work.
Optimizing Your Warehouse or Manufacturing Plant with Joint Primex Sync Technology
Implementing both Primex Sync Synchronized Time and Primex Notify InfoBoard Displays can help your facility reach its full potential. Both solutions are manageable through the cloud-based OneVue platform, and InfoBoard Displays show the same synchronized time when not showing messages. Plus, on-demand reporting makes post-incident audits a breeze.
By unifying timekeeping and communication, your facility gains powerful tools that bolster safety, efficiency, and employee awareness. From small, regional distribution centers to large, multibuilding warehouse and manufacturing campuses, Primex Sync and Primex Notify solutions can scale to fit your specific layout and existing infrastructure.
To begin your facility-optimizing journey with Primex, contact us today.
