| -link"> | | | | the chaos that this created on the shop floor. Sales |
| According to Fabricating and Metalworking | | | | have increased because the company no longer uses |
| Magazine,Digital Kanban is Intelligent Supply Chain | | | | capacity to build parts without an order to buy now. |
| Management | | | | One-hundred percent of production capacity is used |
| The February issue of Fabricating and Metalworking | | | | to build parts that are already sold as soon as they |
| Magazine ( in the online exclusives section | | | | hit the shipping dock. |
| includes a feature article regarding digital kanban | | | | The hosted solution provides the customer with their |
| featuring Datacraft Solutions. Cutler provided a | | | | own set of servers which are maintained offsite by |
| detailed understanding of how digital kanban solutions | | | | and outsourced set of administrators. All of the |
| are critical to an effective lean manufacturing initiative | | | | administration fees, equipment, support teams and |
| and provided a case study that featured Datacraft | | | | software updates are all included in the monthly |
| Solutions ( According to Matthew Marotta, Founder | | | | service fee which is less then the cost of hiring an |
| of Datacraft Solutions, We do not charge for | | | | internal system administrator. The value of an ASP is |
| upgrades to the system as we learn about new best | | | | that manufacturers can buy by the drink, low |
| practices that clients ask us to incorporate. Before | | | | risk, and a see a rapid ROI. Only internet access is |
| Datacraft incorporates the request, it is reviewed | | | | required. |
| buy a lean advisory board to validate the value of | | | | According to North America’s leading |
| the best practices and the value added impact upon | | | | manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler ( |
| our partner community. Once it is passed, they | | | | Recent estimates suggest that more than a third |
| develop, test, and implement. | | | | of all metalworking and fabricating manufacturers |
| With digital kanban, all production is now initiated | | | | engage in some type of lean-manufacturing initiative. |
| based on the immediate needs of customers. | | | | There are many variables that drive the goal of |
| Inventory turns for digital kanban parts are now at | | | | waste elimination, none as keen as the need to be |
| 62 turns per year. Time spent by customer service | | | | competitive in a global economy. As manufacturers |
| communicating on expedited parts issues has | | | | implement these lean programs, they are bringing a |
| practically been eliminated. They estimated that | | | | key element of leankanbaninto the fray in a |
| customer-service staff was spending 40 percent of | | | | seamless way: online. |
| their time on just expediting part orders, as well as | | | | |