Case Study: Clips & Clamps Industries achieves a single manufacturing system, real-time visibility, and immediate ROI with Plex Systems

Clips & Clamps Industries Replaces Six Disparate Systems with the Plex Manufacturing Cloud

Clips & Clamps Industries (CCI), a Plymouth, MI metalformer founded in 1954 serving the automotive sector, was hampered by six disparate legacy systems—ERP plus separate tools for gage controls, HR and more—which drove costly upgrade needs, duplicate data entry, manual reconciliation, paper-based tooling maintenance, and limited operational visibility.

CCI implemented the Plex Manufacturing Cloud as a single, cloud-based manufacturing system of record, replacing six systems and automating MES, ERP, quality, and shop-floor functions. The move delivered real-time dashboards and reporting, eliminated paper tooling tracking by automatically recording tool hits and downtime, avoided upgrade costs for legacy systems (immediate ROI), reduced IT/hardware overhead, and simplified audits and daily operations.

Clips & Clamps Industries

Jeff Aznavorian

Vice President and General Manager