Industries: Industrial Goods

Global competition forces today’s industrial goods manufacturers to view their customers and products in all new ways. They must triage products into two groups: commoditized ones that are frequently manufactured offshore to achieve manufacturing cost reduction and high value-add products produced closer to home.

Factories producing high value-add products typically have to juggle thousands of end products. They must respond quickly to vacillating demand and production processes with expensive, shared equipment. This introduces the complexity of balancing setup and changeover costs with capacity and operational efficiency. Industrial goods manufacturers need solutions that help them account for variability while enabling rapid new product introductions so they can thrive in this new world.

Invistics provides solutions that help industrial goods manufacturers balance inventory and cycle time, while achieving maximum throughput and improved service levels to enable customized, premium products to compete on a global scale. Based on proven techniques like Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma, our MachSix methodology and software 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.