Solutions: Cycle Time Mission

MachSix Makes Cycle Time Reduction Possible

Do you feel like you’re constantly running out of time to produce orders and always need to expedite them? Are orders taking too long to go through your plant or delayed by disruptions in the manufacturing process? If so, you need a cycle time reduction solution. You need Invistics. Our mission is to help you effectively balance inventory and throughput to reduce cycle times without affecting customer service levels.

Invistics MachSix: Taking Time to Get Things Right

It sounds simple, but it takes time. That’s why we don’t believe in just selling you another piece of software that’s supposed to make everything better—mainly because we don’t think that particular software exists. In order to achieve the correct balance among key performance metrics, you need a unique manufacturing methodology supported by advanced analytics, simulation and optimization software and you need to the time and tools to define, measure, analyze, improve and control your performance.

Built on Lean and Six Sigma principles, Invistics manufacturing planning and scheduling solution combines a unique flow methodology based on DMAIC (the Six Sigma principle of defining, measuring, analyzing, improving and controlling) with advanced analytics, simulation and optimization software to help manufacturers break through performance barriers and reach new levels of improvement.

You’ll define the right way for orders to flow through your factory and achieve a pull vs. a push-based method of manufacturing for better response to customer demand. We’ll help you measure how long it takes orders to go through your factory, determine where the most time is being wasted and where opportunities for improvement exist.

We’ll analyze inventory and cycle time to set the lowest possible levels of both without lowering customer service or throughput. After we’ve attained the performance levels you want, we’ll look at ways to improve them—perhaps a reduction in set up times or a reprioritization of projects. There are many variables and we’ll explore all the ones that produce the deliver cycle time reduction while protecting your customer service levels. Finally, we’ll help you control your production operations so that all these improvements are sustainable.

That’s our mission: to help you strike the perfect balance among inventory, cycle times and throughput to achieve maximum customer service levels. Bottom line, we’ll help you ship more products on time with less inventory and your customer service levels will soar.

Let us help you achieve cycle time reduction today.