In today’s digital world, manufacturing operations that don’t modernize will get left behind. The truth of the matter is that process-based manufacturing plants that are still using paper to manage their plant operations will not be competitive in this ever-changing digital landscape.
Implementing a cloud-based process manufacturing software in your job shop can help you improve all aspects of your plant’s operations, leading to improved efficiency, lower costs, and increased profitability. Process manufacturing operations that are digitized can deliver higher quality products on-time and at lower costs than those that have not brought their operations online.
Some of the top benefits of process manufacturing software include:
- Improve profitability: The improvements in productivity, quoting based on true job costs, first-time through improvement, operator efficiency, and customer service due to process management software allow you to improve your overall profitability and win more jobs in the future.
- Improve quality: Digital plant management systems track work orders through every step of the manufacturing process, allowing you to pinpoint where issues are occurring, and who the operator was. Steelhead makes it easier to detect quality issues and take the needed steps to prevent them from happening again.
- Quality of Life improvement for management: With plant management software in place, managers and operators can access live data even from their cell phones so they can see exactly where the parts are in the manufacturing process, and they can make production changes easily from remote.
- Improve customer service: When you digitize your plant, you can improve your customer service by being able to give customers real-time updates on their parts and by sending digital quotes, shippers, and invoices with just one click.
- Deliver more orders on time: When you streamline your operations using management software, you can schedule your jobs more accurately. With live job data, you can track exactly where parts are in your plant and reprioritize jobs with the click of a button. Historical data allows you to plan work orders more precisely and efficiently, allowing you to deliver more orders on time.
- Track operator performance: The traceability offered by process manufacturing software allows you to track operator time and quality metrics so you can identify which employees are performing well and which ones are falling behind.
- Profitability of every single job: Modern plant management systems give you the ability to track the costs of each job. From material costs to labor costs, everything is tracked. This gives you the knowledge of exactly how much each job costs so you can adjust future pricing or identify new ways to reduce costs.
- Gain new insights into your Business: Now the owner and the management team can enjoy unbelievable reports on profit, production, quality, on-time performance and so much more – these are more addicting than social media!
- Improve reporting process: Eliminate the need for time-consuming and tedious data entry with plant management software. There is no need for building spreadsheets, as custom reports are delivered in real-time due to your production orders absorbing data as they progress through the plant.
- Software is made to fit your plant: When you choose plant management software that is designed with process manufacturing in mind, making the switch online is easy. There are no complex modifications needed to try to make the software fit your plant, it has been engineered with operations just like yours in mind.
If you have a process-based manufacturing company such as powder coating, plating, additive, or heat treating, you could greatly benefit from the Steelhead software platform. Steelhead was engineered for process manufacturing and has a track record of improving efficiency and profitability with fast and easy deployment. Our software is deployed quickly, between 1 day and 2 weeks, with no disruption to your operation. Interested in learning more about Steelhead? Schedule a 15-minute demo call today!
Aaron Halonen, President | aaron@gosteelhead.com