A producer of architectural wood trim gained visibility into paint consumption at its facility by installing a cloud-based flow measurement and control system that provides accurate and real-time data on paint usage, flow rates, density and other parameters from a computer or smart device.
The wood trim producer has two identical plants that paint trim using the same equipment, products and paint. Using a vacuum coating process, finished wood trim is dipped into a paint tank with excess suctioned off and returned to the tank. Production paint is sold in large 275-gallon containers called totes. Fresh paint is added to the tank from the totes to maintain appropriate volumes.