Industries: Chemicals

Chemical manufacturers can no longer be all things to all people and are increasingly forced to choose whether they want to compete on price alone in a commodity market or become specialized and offer a variety of premium products. Even differentiating themselves as a specialty chemicals provider doesn’t always protect them from increasingly sophisticated global competitors.

Invistics offers production management solutions that help chemical manufacturers balance inventory and cycle time, while achieving maximum throughput and improved service levels. Utilizing Invistics MachSix solutions, customers are able to configure manufacturing networks for more customized products. Based on proven techniques like Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma, our MachSix planning and scheduling software and methodology helps plant managers identify and control variability in products, processes, and demand by pinpointing immediate problems and generating scenarios for continuous improvement.

Performance That’s Out of This World

Utilizing the Invistics methodology and MachSix software, industrial goods manufacturers can implement flow manufacturing to produce a greater variety of customized finished goods, while shipping more orders on schedule with minimum amounts of inventory to help battle cost pressures from offshore competitors.

With the unique MachSix methodology and software, industrial goods manufacturers have been able to increase on-time deliveries to as much as 99% while simultaneously reducing inventory and cycle times by 50% or more. They’ve maximized customer service levels and eliminated departmental silos for more effective manufacturing processes throughout their global supply chain network and so can you.

To find out more, read our Bristol Myers Squibb case study or use any of the following links to learn how MachSix uniquely helps you redefine relationships among inventory, throughput and CycleTime to achieve out of this world customer service levels.