The fast, simple, and visual way
to understand your manufacturing
It's everything your team needs to uncover insights and make the right changes. This is Smart Manufacturing.
With over 20 years of experience, we’ve helped
many customers with the same issues you’re facing:
Inefficient production. Poor Sales & Operations Planning.
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Trusted by great brands
who have the same challenges that you’re facing.
Inefficient production
Inefficient Sales & Operations
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Manual data entry & errors
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Avoidable equipment downtime
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Increasing material waste
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Long changeover times
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Scheduling delays
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High cycle times
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Excessive inventory
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Poor labor management
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Increasing material costs
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Lack of reporting & visibility
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Need for capital investment
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Cut order times for customers
So you decided it's time for a change. Smart.
Become a "Smart Factory" with better visibility and analytics.
Building an in-house solution yourself is challenging.
And integrating a high-end MES solution is costly.
Get only what you need.
A flexible, affordable solution that proves it's worth in 90-days.
Why Flex?
Our Smart Factory toolset is designed (by Production Experts, for Production Experts) to transform data into actionable insights that drives customer value.
Better
Data
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Automated Data Collection
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Operator Metrics
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Job Metrics
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Shift Metrics
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ERP Integration
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Cloud Access
Better
Visibility
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Easy Data Analytics
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Advanced Reporting
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Live Alert Notification
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Operator Engagement
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Scorecards & Dashboards
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Factory Consolidation
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Decisions
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Consistent throughput
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Confident scheduling
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Certainty of capacity
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Predictive production
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Accountable labor
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Proactive vs reactive
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Capital investments
Connects directly with your shop floor equipment to capture real time production data -- counts, speed, uptime, yield, throughput and OEE. This eliminates error-prone, delayed manual data collection and paperwork.
Scorecards and Dashboards engage the shop floor personnel with easy to use, simple communication tools and performance expectations that highlight better results.
Easy analytics leverage existing tools to identify your best machines, best customers, and best personnel to maximize productivity and profits through better decisions.
Visual Monitoring is displayed across the factory floor for operators, in offices for supervisors, and on mobile devices for busy executives.
Customer Success Story:
Over-Production Waste
A Top 5 U.S. Printer engaged Flex Metrics to reduce over-production waste in their press room. Operators were responsible for manually stopping their press at the “target” count. Not wanting to be “written up” for shorting the target, operators would overrun their press (sometimes for several minutes) resulting in significant over production. FLEX CountControl module automatically stops production as “targets” are hit. The result for the client was an immediate 95+ percent reduction in over-production waste – a $150,000 savings annually.
You're in good company.
Flex is trusted by some of the best small, medium, and large brands
in print, packaging, consumer products, and more.
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Industry Insight:
The New Culture of Smart Manufacturing
"Technologies aren’t really the sticking point for digital transformation—it’s change. Which comes first? Process or culture?"
-AutomationWorld, October 2018