Case Study: Hypertherm Achieves Millions in Savings with Loftware Spectrum

Implementing Loftware Spectrum Improves Production Uptime

Hypertherm, a global manufacturer of plasma, laser, and water jet cutting systems, was struggling with an unreliable home-grown labeling environment that created frequent downtime, mislabeling risks, supplier connectivity problems, and heavy maintenance burdens. As the company grew, its complex label printing system could not scale effectively across internal operations and worldwide suppliers, putting production uptime and customer satisfaction at risk. Hypertherm turned to Loftware Spectrum® to address these enterprise labeling challenges.

Loftware implemented Spectrum®, a 100% browser-based enterprise labeling solution with centralized control, business rules, automated printing, and WYSIWYG label design. The new system dramatically reduced downtime and mislabeling, simplified maintenance, improved supplier labeling, and enabled global scalability, helping Hypertherm realize estimated annual savings of $1.5 million to $5 million and eliminate $25,000 to $100,000 in weekly productivity losses tied to labeling issues.

Hypertherm

Isaac Carty

System Administrator