Case Study: Trek Bicycle Corporation achieves automated real-time SPC, reduced scrap, and $19K/year savings with InfinityQS International's ProFicient

Trek Bikes Pave the Road to Cycling Excellence

Trek Bicycle Corporation, a global leader in bicycle design and manufacturing, faced unreliable, paper‑based monitoring in its OCLV carbon molding and aluminum machining areas and needed a way to automate weight tracking and Statistical Process Control. To address this, Trek turned to InfinityQS and its ProFicient real‑time SPC solution to replace manual recording and enable instantaneous process feedback.

InfinityQS implemented ProFicient with barcode readers and direct gauge inputs to automate data collection and real‑time SPC, letting operators quickly separate special‑cause from common‑cause variation and monitor resin flow during molding. The solution saved the quality department over $19,000 a year in paper costs, reduced scrap, improved process oversight, and helped Trek maintain consistent high quality—supporting initiatives such as the 2014 launch of the world’s lightest production road bike.

Trek Bicycle Corporation

Ben Fisher

Product Manufacturing Engineer