Manufacturing · Job Shop
A 35-year-old machine shop, off the spreadsheets at last
After 13 years on Excel — and one failed software attempt — the shop floor finally runs on a system built for the way it works.
The challenge
“We'd spent 13 years on Excel, and operators wrote their hours down by hand. We had already failed once trying to implement another system four years earlier.”
The solution
“It became real teamwork. The system adapted to us, and tasks that used to take 15 steps were cut down to 2. The whole team pulled in the same direction.”
½ day → 2 min
to quote & close a work order
~60%
less spent on materials
−90%
untracked, unbilled jobs
“Before automating our labor, closing a work order took us half a day hunting for data; today it takes me two minutes per order. The system gives us a more disciplined sale — we sell a smaller volume but stop the material leaks, for much higher profit.”