Select comments from
m-fusion™ Synchronization Engine customers:
“Our volume was up 15%, market share was up 3%,
while lead time was cut in half with no additional overhead.”
“We shipped more product than ever this month with less people and reduced
manufacturing cycle time from 12 days to five.”
“Whether a machine has gone down or a customer has made a last-minute design
change, [Synchronization Engine] improves our response time, enabling us to handle
trouble orders in an orderly way.”
Titleist-Footjoy Worldwide
“The number of inventory turns in our industry is eight. We are currently at 125
and we are not through yet.”
“The first site was implemented in
under six months, but the second site was implemented in just
eight weeks.”
Herman Miller, Inc.
“We're happy with the return on investment we have gotten already ... Moore is
only in the middle of the project's fourth step, but the monthly
scorecard shows savings in several areas. In the first month that
the first plant went live with the [Synchronization Engine] software, inventory
was reduced 40% (target range was between 5% and 20%).”
“In the six months since it's been live, work in process (WIP) and raw
materials inventory have been cut between 30% and 50%. Cycle time
– specifically the time from taking an order to shipping it - is,
in some instances, 50% shorter. Controlling waste or scrap has
also improved, and increasing plant productivity has increased.”
“We have to differentiate ourselves in terms of quality and cycle time. We
can’t do that without advanced planning tools that take customer
expectations and vendor capabilities into account.”
Moore Corporation
“With the competitive climate in the DVD business today, customers call and
immediately want to know if we will accept their order and meet their delivery
date. If we take more than 15 minutes to determine whether or not we will be
able to meet that proposed date, we’ll lose the job to a competitor. The
[Synchronization Engine] software enables us to quickly determine
whether or not we will need to revise the manufacturing schedule,
and how those changes will affect profitability and
customer-service objectives.”
“[Synchronization Engine] software has improved our visibility of the production process so
we can quickly and accurately tell customers when we can deliver.
It also allows us to create ‘what if’ scenarios to see how a new
order will affect our production schedule, enabling us to boost
performance and maintain high customer satisfaction.”
Pioneer Video Manufacturing
“The real-time status reporting functions of the software alone
brought productivity gains of 8 percent. Our labor resources are
more productive, and not just the factory-floor operators, but also
the supervisors and setup staff.”
“Before we had the system, it used to take supervisors the better
part of three hours each morning to ascertain the status of all
work centers and ensure work was ready to be performed. With the
[Synchronization Engine] system, it now takes less than five minutes for
supervisors to see that all work center operators are logged in on
the right job.”
“The combination of planning and execution is the real beauty of
the system.”
Ryobi Motor Products
“Inventory has been reduced so much that three warehouses have
been shuttered. Average manufacturing lead times have been cut in
half. Customer complaints have gone down, on-time delivery has
increased and, in some cases, significant product cost savings
have been shared with customers.”
Chesapeake Display and Packaging
“[Synchronization Engine] gives us a faster on-line look into every aspect of our
production process and pinpoints where the problems are so that we
can handle them before they impact our ability to ship an order on
time.”
“Our goal is to remain invisible to our customers, delivering
on-time every time. We feel that [Synchronization Engine] is one of the tools to
help achieve this goal.”
“We do see [Synchronization Engine] helping us plan and execute better, which is helping us
make products faster and respond to customer orders more quickly.
The software gives us a faster online look into every aspect of
our production process and pinpoints where the problems are so
that we can handle them before they impact our ability to ship an
order on time. We are gaining a lot of visibility into where we
are wasting time and money in non-value added processes.”
Delavan a Division of Coltec Industries
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