St. Paul, MN -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/20/2016 -- Manufacturers' waste-reduction initiatives are rarely as effective as they could be. When reducing waste, inventory is often the main target. Right-sized inventory in an environment of constant variability can be accomplished via eKanban, reports manufacturing journalist TR Cutler in the current issue of Quality Digest.
Cutler profiled Dynisco, a Roper Industries company in the plastics industry, who was on a mission to enhance performance. Like many manufacturers, the firm wanted to achieve greater control over operating profit and cash flow, enhance efficiency and productivity with existing resources, and improve transparency across its network of six plants. Additionally, the company was determined to reduce the cost of carrying inventory and the cost of new designs.
Synchrono, developer of the eKanban software SyncKanban, proved an ideal fit for the complexity and variability of the Dynisco portfolio. Dynisco scaled its manual kanban process to include nearly 800 SKUs for products built across their locations by upgrading to SyncKanban and streamlining the kanban process from 66 to six steps while reporting accurate inventory and supplier data in real time.
An added benefit to eKanban systems is that automated inventory replenishment signals not only increase efficiency, but they eliminate mounds of administrative paperwork and errors during manual data entry. The new system frees supply managers and buyers from the replenishment loop, creating more time to focus on value-added responsibilities like new supply contracts and strategic sourcing.
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Synchrono (http://www.synchrono.com) demand-driven manufacturing software synchronizes complex manufacturing environments in real-time, to drive business results. When integrated under the Synchrono Demand-Driven Manufacturing Platform, lean and demand-driven initiatives achieve new levels of excellence, transforming businesses by synchronizing people, processes, machines, materials, and data to drive production flow from order inception to delivery.
The award winning Synchrono Demand-Driven Manufacturing Platform offers five system components, including a planning, scheduling, and production management system and ekanban software for real-time inventory replenishment and supply chain collaboration. The Synchrono Platform has a unique a data collection, historian, and automated workflow engine along with an application that generates automatic alerts, escalation and action plans to minimize disruptions. Perhaps most importantly, this technology platform also includes a real-time visual factory information system. Everyone at every level of a manufacturing organization has access to one version of the truth with a dynamic view of what is happening at every stage of the manufacturing process; from order inception through production and delivery.
Synchrono systems allow for the simultaneous exchange of data across systems and resources, the ability to respond to constraints and changes in demand as they occur, and to predict, pre-empt, and prioritize issues. The Platform components may be implemented independently or collectively to enable the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), providing an unprecedented foundation for communication, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
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