Case Study: Custom Engineered Wheels achieves alignment and transparency with Guidewheel

Custom Engineered Wheels expands to 41 presses with Guidewheel

Custom Engineered Wheels (CEW), a manufacturer of custom plastic wheels, faced the challenge of manually collecting essential production data like downtime and cycle times, a process that was time-consuming and lacked accuracy. Seeking to embrace lean manufacturing principles, CEW's team, led by COO Edgar Yerena, turned to Guidewheel and its FactoryOps platform to gain real-time visibility into their equipment.

By implementing Guidewheel, CEW automated the collection of key metrics across 41 machines in its two plants. This allowed the team to reinvest time into improvements and use live data in daily meetings and strategic planning. The solution fostered a data-driven culture, enabling faster reactions to issues via alerts and creating alignment and transparency at every level of the organization. Guidewheel provided a single source of truth that empowered the entire operations team to strategically focus resources and continuously improve.

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