Case Study: Conzella Präzisionswerkzeuge achieves 40% reduction in lead time with Ninox Smart-MES-365 (Ninox)

Digital planning of 1,700 work sequences per month

Conzella Präzisionswerkzeuge, a nearly 100-year-old Swabian family business manufacturing high-precision turning tips, centering cones and special tools, needed to coordinate 43 machines, 18 manual workstations and 13 external suppliers to produce about 240 items monthly (avg. 7 operations each). Their planning relied on printed ERP orders and error-prone Excel lists that could not reflect real-time changes in schedules, material availability, subcontracting or machine and staff outages — so Conzella turned to Ninox for a digital alternative.

Ninox, together with partner KMU Cloud-Software GmbH, implemented Ninox Smart-MES-365 to sync ERP data in real time, automate sequencing, provide a live planning board, assign orders to workstations and staff, and feed MES time-tracking back into the ERP. The Ninox solution eliminated manual planning, made production fully digital and mobile, and delivered measurable impact — including a 40% reduction in lead time (effectively halving throughput time), 100% mobile use and a paperless workflow.

Conzella Präzisionswerkzeuge

Melanie Schink

Manager