“The implementation has been a tremendous success. The results of your decision support tool were an excellent guide towards the superb implementation that we experienced in my area. We have reported $3.6 million/year savings per year and your tool was critical for a good part of this. In addition, critical floor space was saved inside the Plant which is supporting the introduction of new programs.” 

“On plater 4, it could take up to four hours to generate a schedule. Now that we have the Visual8 sequencer in place, our planners can have a schedule in well under 30 minutes.”

In the past, our plater 4 planner had an Excel spreadsheet of steps they had to follow and rules they had to abide by. It was very labor intensive. On top of that, the schedule that was generated achieved only 60-65% schedule attainment. Today, this particular plater is above 91% and as high as 96% schedule attainment.”

“We’re thrilled,” continues Albrecht. “And it’s not just the planners that are happy, the people on the floor also recognize that our scheduling is much more efficient.”

“COMPASS proved itself to have a very powerful engine that could be customized to handle all of our constraints and configured to our exact business requirements. With COMPASS, I now have real-time data in front of me when I need it. It has driven improved discipline of shop-floor confirmations and provided us with more transparency in our day-to-day operations.”