In the wake of the current impulsive and competitive economy, manufacturing industry is planking down steady efforts not just for survival but to enhance productivity and maintain quality standards. Manufacturers are now adopting lean practices around the world to eliminate waste, create efficiencies and help companies continuously shave production costs. Establishing a footprint in the thriving landscape of lean manufacturing, eFlex System, a company that specializes design and implementation of advanced technology, ensures harmony between flexibility, tools, technology, software, and lean principles for continuous manufacturing excellence. “Our lean manufacturing tools and software assists firms to achieve the right balance of technology and lean manufacturing principles to meet changing market demands,” cites Dan McKiernan, President, eFlex Systems.

eFlex System’s suite of battle-tested manufacturing execution system (MES) products allows enterprises to execute a true corporate manufacturing standard. The company’s offerings include software and solutions for flexible assembly line optimization, traceability and quality management, kitting material handling, and vision image inspection storage to expand production. The company’s Flexible Assembly Optimization Architecture integrates equipment and manpower on the plant floor to create an intelligent manufacturing system. This system is globally standardized, transmits high quality and flexibility for production, maintenance, and process and training. Robust error proofing tools of the optimization software increases line productivity and reduces scrap through its discrete sensor, vision, part pick, and barcode scan error proofing. This software continually monitors work-in-process inventory to further lean efforts.

The framework and core design supports firms’ lean manufacturing efforts, including quick response to continuous improvement ideas, and reviewing of measured feedbacks.

Our lean manufacturing tools and software assists firms to achieve the right balance of technology and lean manufacturing principles to meet changing market demands

eFlex System offers turn-key deliverables that include eConfiguration tool for kitting, and plug and play standardized hardware that can be installed on either the customer’s rack design or the customer’s design. Additionally, eFlex Track & Trace, a manufacturing traceability and quality control software solution enables users to store, retrieve, and report part status in a manufacturing environment. “This software represents a significant technology shift is proving to be a ‘game changer’ for plant floor systems,” says McKiernan. For managing and retrieving all manufacturing process images, the company offers eFlex Vision, which is vision inspection image storage software. The combination of these solutions generates significant synergies enabling enterprises to manage manufacturing processes more seamlessly.

eFlex Systems help manufacturers in the automotive, industrial, and heavy equipment sectors to realize sustainable and distinguished manufacturing process. For instance, the company recently assisted Nissan to open their Infiniti Decherd Powertrain Plant, through its eFlex Assembly Lean Leveraging Technology suite. This flexible suite provided Nissan the ability to easily rebalance, reconfigure, and report on current status and the impact of continuous improvement efforts utilizing its four-cylinder assembly line, for both the planned Mercedes-Benz and Infinti engine production.
Within the manufacturing plant, a lack of knowledge about parts in-process and absence of infrastructure and consistency to store data and track are common situations. Today, their complexities are rising swiftly. eFlex Systems have strong capabilities in moving up the manufacturing value chain. The company aims to keep re-engineering their existing solution suite, along with innovating new ones. Observing that production line can function without laptops and industrial kiosks, eFlex Systems delivers its lean leveraging technology, eFlex SmartGlass for Google Glass in live to increase process intelligence on every station.