Case Study: InterMetro Industries achieves 70% faster time-to-market for new products with Adobe Workfront

InterMetro Industries brings new products to market 70% Faster with Workfront

InterMetro Industries, a global engineering and technology business and subsidiary of Emerson, faced slow and unpredictable product launches because its software teams used fragmented new product development (NPD) processes. Lack of centralized visibility into scope, schedules, resources, and risks eroded confidence, disrupted resource planning, and threatened revenue from missed launch windows.

InterMetro adopted Workfront to standardize its Phase Gate + Agile workflows, integrate development data (including TFS), and centralize requests, tasks, and reporting. As a result, NPD process compliance rose from 15% to 80% (with 100% planned), capitalized R&D cost visibility improved from ~52% to over 95% saving more than $500K, average planning time dropped from 11 months to under 3 months, labor-cost mapping increased to over 90%, meeting time fell by two-thirds, and overall predictability and risk management greatly improved—enabling much faster time-to-market.

InterMetro

Bob Moore

Director of Software Development