Case Study: Donnelly Custom Manufacturing achieves 60% growth and streamlined short-run operations with DELMIAworks ERP

Short-Run Manufacturer Builds Long-term Success with EnterpriseIQ

Donnelly Custom Manufacturing is a 230‑employee short‑run injection molder (founded 1984) that serves OEMs with highly customized parts and value‑added services. The company relied on an aging OS/2 platform and manual magnetic‑board scheduling, which limited concurrent users, lacked EDI/lean support and could not keep pace with rising complexity and customer/supplier electronic requirements.

Donnelly migrated to IQMS EnterpriseIQ (Windows/Oracle) and deployed modules including RealTime Production Monitoring, Quality Management and EDI/XML within six months. The ERP eliminated excess data entry, sped invoicing (now done by 9:00 a.m.), cut overtime and office workload, moved scheduling into the system and supported rapid expansion—Donnelly grew 60% and managed roughly double its previous complexity while using a smaller office staff.

Donnelly Custom Manufacturing

Ron Kirscht

President