Challenge

Automate all facets of injection-molding production—including estimating, quoting, sales, order processing, planning, scheduling, tooling, design for manufacturing, production, inventory, procurement, and delivery—to increase efficiency and improve quality, as well as to better understand actual costs per job to maintain profit margins while improving the company’s competitive position.

Solution

Add the integrated DELMIAWORKS enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for manufacturers to the company’s existing SOLIDWORKS design and manufacturing implementation.

Results

  • Increased operational efficiency from 70 percent to 98.5 percent
  • Cut reject rate to less than one percent, a third of industry standard
  • Improved profit margins
  • Attained ISO 9001:2015 certification

SEA-LECT Plastics Corporation is a leading supplier of custom injection molding, design, product development, and tooling services in the Pacific Northwest. As a full-service provider, the company frequently deals with early-stage product ideas, often starting from rough, 2D sketches. SEA-LECT takes the two-dimensional sketch and builds it from scratch in SOLIDWORKS® using various extrusions and surface manipulations.

Today, when SEA-LECT takes a customer idea from concept to reality, they know, before the job starts, how profitable the job will be. “With DELMIAWORKS, we have complete visibility of all of our operations, with information right at our fingertips, because everything is managed and automated within a single system,” says Vice President and General Manager, Matt Poischbeg.

But it wasn’t always that way.

 

SEA-LECT Plastics substantially increased operational efficiency—from 70 percent to 98.5 percent.
SEA-LECT Plastics substantially increased operational efficiency—from 70 percent to 98.5 percent.

 

“DELMIAWORKS gives us access to all job details at any time in the process. With this tight management of data and automation of processes, we can see exactly what is happening on each of 16 different machines in real time,” says Poischbeg.

With a better grasp of actual data, SEA-LECT Plastics can generate more precise estimates and quotes, which helps the company avoid losses, boost profit margins, and improve its competitive position.

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In this tight market, there’s no room for error, and we can’t afford to lose, either. With the information and automation provided by DELMIAWORKS, both our pricing and position are more competitive. In short, DELMIAWORKS gives us a competitive edge.

Matt Poischbeg
Vice President/General Manager

With the DELMIAWORKS ERP system, SEA-LECT Plastics has substantially increased operational efficiency—from 70 percent to 98.5 percent—while simultaneously improving injection-molded part quality and related processes, enabling the company to obtain its ISO 9001:2015 certification. DELMIAWORKS has helped SEA-LECT to increase productivity, profit margins, and to consistently achieve on-time delivery.

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