Clicarity Rubber Products
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Which press is curing differently from the rest?

Which press is drifting from the recipe. How much scrap comes from compound that waited too long. How long changeovers really take, shift by shift.

One moulder found a single press rejecting at 9.4% while three others sat near 2%. The recipe was identical on all four.
Rubber products manufacturers — batch and cure visibility live
As featured in PrintWeek India, April 2026 ↗

Three moulders. Each one set the parameters and never recorded what actually ran.

01 The batch that cured differently

Cure time, temperature and pressure decide whether a moulded part performs. The recipe is fixed. The execution varies.

Parameters are set on the press and trusted. They are rarely recorded against the batch, so when a lot fails testing there is nothing to compare against a lot that passed.

Rejections by press, one month
Press 12.1%
Press 29.4%
Press 32.6%
Press 41.8%

Cure parameters, compound batch and operator attach to the lot as it is moulded.

9.4% → 3.1%on the press that was drifting
Find out howBring last month. Fifteen minutes.
02 Compound that aged on the rack

Mixed compound has a shelf life. Left too long it processes differently, and the scorch shows up as scrap at moulding.

Mixing dates are written on the batch. Nobody enforces which one gets used first, so newer compound at the front gets used while older sits behind it.

Scrap against compound age at moulding
Under 24 hrs1.4%
1 to 3 days3.2%
Over 5 days8.6%

Mix date travels with the compound, and the oldest usable batch is the obvious pick.

8.6% → 2.8%on aged compound
Show me howFifteen minutes. We look at your rack.
03 Mould changes, and the hours around them

Changing a mould is unavoidable. How long the press stands during the change is not.

Changeovers are known to be slow. Nobody times them individually, so a change that takes four hours on one shift and ninety minutes on another looks the same in the monthly numbers.

Mould changeover time by shift, one month
Shift A1.6 hrs avg
Shift B4.2 hrs avg
Shift C1.9 hrs avg

Each changeover is timed automatically from the stage marks the operator already makes.

4.2 hrs → 2.0 hrson the shift that was slowest
Show me howFifteen minutes. We set up one press.

The recipe is the same everywhere. What actually happened is not.

Every batch. Every press. Every cure tracked.

This is how a print job moves through your business. Clicarity gives you live visibility at every phase — and flags delays before they become client calls.

01
Order & Planning
3 stages
Order Received
Customer order confirmed — part number, compound grade, quantity, deadline.
✓ Clicarity: Job ID created, compound planned, mould allocated
Compound Planning
Rubber compound formulation and batch size planned per order.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: compound ingredient shortage — production delayed
Mould Preparation
Mould pulled from store, cleaned, inspected, and fitted on press.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: mould condition poor — maintenance required before production
02
Compounding
3 stages
Ingredient Weighing
All compound ingredients weighed precisely per formulation.
✓ Clicarity: Weighed quantities logged — deviation from formula flagged
Mixing / Mastication
Rubber and ingredients mixed on internal mixer or open mill.
✓ Clicarity: Mixing batch tracked — compound lot number assigned
Compound QC
Mixed compound tested for Mooney viscosity and cure characteristics.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: compound fails QC — remix required, production delayed
03
Moulding & Curing
4 stages
Pre-Form Preparation
Compound cut or extruded to pre-form shape for moulding.
Compression / Injection Moulding
Parts moulded at required temperature and pressure.
✓ Clicarity: Cycle count and good parts logged per press per shift
Curing
Parts cured in oven for required time at specified temperature.
✓ Clicarity: Cure timer locked — parts cannot proceed until cure complete
Deflashing / Trimming
Flash and excess material trimmed from moulded parts.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: excessive flash — mould maintenance required
04
QC & Dispatch
3 stages
Quality Inspection
Parts tested for hardness, dimensions, and appearance.
✓ Clicarity: Rejection rate tracked by part number and press
Packing
Parts packed per customer specification with quantity count.
✓ Clicarity: Packed quantity vs order confirmed before dispatch
Dispatch
Order dispatched with test certificate and delivery challan.
✓ Clicarity: Full batch history from compound lot to dispatch preserved
""Under-curing was our silent problem. Operators would pull parts early under pressure to meet delivery. We only found out when the customer rejected the lot. Now curing time is a locked stage — nobody can skip it.""
PR
Production Manager
Rubber Products Manufacturer — Aurangabad, Maharashtra
As featured in PrintWeek India, April 2026 — Vol 18, Issue 12 ↗ Also in Print Bulletin, May 2026 — Pages 20–21 ↗

What improves in rubber products businesses using Clicarity

↓ 70%
Customer rejections from curing issues
↑ 35%
On-time delivery improvement
↓ 50%
Compound waste per batch
5 days
To go live — full setup included

Questions from rubber products businesses

How does Clicarity work for a printing business specifically?
Clicarity is configured around your specific print workflow — pre-press, printing, finishing, dispatch — in your terminology. Every job gets a unique ID and moves through your defined stages. You see live status, timestamps, and alerts when a job sits too long at every stage. The Clicarity team builds everything for you. You go live in 5 days.
Does it work for both offset and digital printing?
Yes. Clicarity works for any print process — offset, digital, wide format, screen printing, or a combination. The stages are configured around your actual workflow. If offset jobs go through plate making and digital jobs skip that stage, both can be tracked correctly under the same system.
Can it track material wastage at each stage?
Yes — with the Multi Licence. At every stage, your team logs quantity in and quantity out. Clicarity calculates the loss automatically. You see wastage by stage, by job, live — not at month-end when nothing can be done about it.
Will my press operators actually use it?
Yes. The update screen has two fields — Job ID and status. Under a minute. No training needed. GP Offset's entire team was using it from day one, including floor workers who had never used a software system before.

See every batch. Every cure. Before the rejection comes back.

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