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Client Story · Family Manufacturing

Fixed the thing. Didn't sell her one.

LV
Linda V.
Owner · Family Manufacturing · 3rd generation · 85 on the floor
85
on the floor
3rd
generation family-owned
9 wks
engagement
The situation

Sixty-some years of building things right, and a shop floor that still ran on paper travelers and the memory of long-tenured supervisors. Orders were never late enough to lose a customer, but on-time came at a cost: overtime spikes at every month end, and a two-week scramble whenever a big customer scheduled a quality audit. Linda had heard every pitch, in her words, and had a drawer of proposals from firms that led with software licenses. What got her attention was an audit that cost nothing and told her things about her own floor she could verify by walking out and looking. Two of the findings she disputed. She checked. They held.

What the audit found
C

Month-end was a planned emergency

The schedule quietly assumed heroics in the last five days. Overtime was structural, not exceptional.

A

Paper travelers, retyped nightly

Floor data was captured on paper and re-keyed into the ERP every evening, a day late and error-prone.

E

Audit prep meant archaeology

Proving what happened on a lot meant two weeks of pulling paper. The evidence existed. Finding it didn't.

What we installed
01

Leveled the month

Work now releases to the floor on a steady weekly rhythm. The last-five-days emergency stopped being scheduled.

02

Captured floor data once, at the machine

Travelers went digital where it was safe and stayed paper where the crew preferred. Either way, no retyping.

03

Made the lot record self-assembling

Every job now leaves an audit-ready trail as it runs. Nothing extra to remember, nothing to dig for.

The results
71%
less month-end overtime
2 wks → 1 day
customer audit preparation
0
new software licenses sold to her
9 weeks
start to handoff
In their words
LV

Sixty-some years in this business and I've heard every pitch. First time someone actually fixed the thing instead of selling me one.

Linda V. · Owner · Family Manufacturing

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