Lindquist Machine's Lean Journey to ETO ERP Leader Encompix
Lindquist Machine Corporation (LMC) builds custom machines for
U.S. and international customers. For over 50 years LMC has been
solving customers' problems in industries such as food,
printing, paper, film, construction, and power tools.
LMC started the implementation process at the beginning of
January 2005. After a four-month implementation, LNC went live
with Encompix on May 1, 2005.
Although it is still early days Joe Zimmer, CFO, is looking
forward to big improvements. "We expect a significant reduction
in paperwork and to streamline our office processes. Our goal is
to reduce the office lead time from 10 days to 2-3 days.
Encompix will also provide us with greater visibility of job
status and provide clear assembly instructions to production
staff. We are confident that we will meet our objective of ROI
within 24 months, hopefully sooner." In January 2000 LMC
embarked on a Lean journey so it was essential that the new ERP
system supported these initiatives. "Our goal is to work towards
World Class Manufacturing. We want to eliminate 95% of internal
transactions and automate 95% of external transactions. Before
Encompix we were running at about 25%, with Encompix we expect a
big leap forward to 70%," said Zimmer.
According to ETO Institute (www.etoinstitute.org) spokesperson,
Thomas R. Cutler,