Industries: Metals

Metals manufacturers face increasing competition in a highly commoditized market. Their manufacturing operations are characterized by constant bottlenecks, rising inventory costs and lagging throughput, any one of which can negatively impact customer service levels at a time when customers are demanding more and more custom products and faster turn around times. Today, the old ways of tooling plants to run huge lots of one or two products at a time just don't work anymore.

Invistics provides solutions that help metals manufacturers balance inventory and cycle time. They also achieve maximum throughput and improved service levels to adequately address customer needs while keeping costs down to remain competitive. 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 inventory 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.