Implementation plan

1. Check five cooling timers

About an hour of work shows whether the timers hold spare time.

Action	Read the cooling timer on five running jobs. Measure the thickest wall of each part, and note its plastic. Work out the cooling time each wall needs, from the standard formula. Compare the two times for each job.
Owner	A process technician
Purchases	None
Decision	Does any timer run longer than its wall needs?
Fallback	If none does, stop. Only about an hour has been spent.

A second is worth most on the jobs that run the most hours.

Action	From the ERP job log, take the five jobs that ran the most press hours in twelve months. Start with the jobs that need no customer approval. Agree with quality what to check on each part: its sizes, flatness and look. Shorten the cooling timer by one second, let the press settle, and keep the parts of one cycle. Check those parts once they are cold. Repeat until a part fails, then go back one second.
Owner	A process technician, with quality and scheduling
Purchases	None. About 8 hours of the technician's time per job, about $2,100 in all.
Decision	Do the cold parts still pass at the shorter time?
Fallback	If the first step already fails, that timer was right. Leave it and go to the next job.

Every later run starts from the tested time, not a safe guess.

Action	Write the new cooling time on the job's settings sheet, with the date and who ran the trial. At the job's next start, set the timer from the sheet. A shift that raises the timer writes down the defect it was fixing.
Owner	The process technician and the shift supervisors
Purchases	None
Decision	Is the timer still at the tested time on the next run?
Fallback	If it has gone back up, find the defect the shift was fixing, and trial that job again.

Illustrative sample. The plant, the walk and the footage are synthetic. Figures from our analysis are estimates made with AI, not guarantees.