What Customers Say About DBR+™

"The most significant improvement for the Steel Group that DBR+™ has given us is total visibility of our facility from one end to the other end. And its visibility is not just limited to a few select individuals, but every employee in the Steel Group. We now manage from a proactive style rather than a reactive style due to the increased visibility. Recently, we had one area go down for three days, but the visibility provided by DBR+™ allowed us to effectively manage our resources, and recover very rapidly. DBR+™, we would have just sunk in the quagmire of stacked product and confusion."

"It has brought us an electronic way to manage and execute DBR. It gives us the ability to see exactly what’s going on in all facets of the schedule and shop floor for anyone with the Web access. We have reduced our WIP, increased our on time delivery throughout the company, and have a very proactive way to see disruptions before they hurt us. It gives us an improved way to prioritize what to work on when and where to utilize our under-loaded resources. We look forward to doing more process improvement as a result of the reason code analysis capabilities."

"It’s amazing how well this system works. The chaos and firefighting have settled down, we’ve found new capacity, Jason and I are caught up and looking for things to do."

"Last year, I did not believe that there was such a thing as hidden capacity. My perspective was that we were very good at what we did. We always were getting incrementally better and there was no room for significant improvement without additional resources. In general, due to the implementation of DBR+™, we have been able to increase throughput and pass a large amount of work through the shop to satisfy past due needs of our customers. We also have found room to take all new jobs that show up. Rather than react to each customers’ urgent need for the week, we are able to take a look at monthly needs, adjust resources and execute a plan."

"DBR+™, after we implemented it, helped us identify our priorities and manage the flow through the facility. One of the biggest gains – our lead time used to be three weeks and we brought our lead time down to three days and if we have an expedite we can get a product through the facility in 6 hours."

"DBR+ resulted in a pretty dramatic increase in our ability to get product through the shop. Our on-time deliveries were in the 65 to 75% range and now above 98% without even thinking about it. The flow through has been terrific. The work in process inventory is dramatically down."

"Through real-time visibility and tracking of WIP using DBR+™ TFA has been able to see through the confusion of operating at maximum capacity to capture opportunities to satisfy customers in urgent need. We also are given a real-time picture of our current capacity status, enabling us to communicate with our customers our true capabilities in regards to their ordering needs."