Case Study: Bedford Industries achieves faster traceability and self-service manufacturing with 42Q MES

Bedford Industries cuts mock recall testing from 6 hours to under an hour with 42Q

Bedford Industries, a family-owned manufacturer of twist ties and tags, faced the challenge of future-proofing its operations. Their outdated, homegrown MES system required costly on-site IT support and software engineers proficient in legacy languages, making changes slow and prohibitively expensive. They selected 42Q, a cloud-based MES, to replace it with a secure, mobile-enabled solution that could be maintained by their production team.

42Q implemented its system using a collaborative approach that included extensive analysis, a conference room pilot, and over 36,000 hours of training. The results were significant: the production team became self-sufficient, making configuration changes in hours instead of months. 42Q also drastically improved traceability, reducing mock recall test times from 6 hours to under an hour and eliminating the need for on-site IT hardware and specialized software engineers.

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