Case Study: Avon Gear Company achieves 20% growth, 98% inventory accuracy, and faster reporting with Plex Systems

Manufacturer Achieves 20 Percent Annual Growth, Improves Inventory Accuracy

Avon Machining, a Shelby Township, Michigan manufacturer of precision‑machined components (which acquired Avon Gear in 2017), was hampered by siloed engineering, production, quality and accounting systems—each using separate Access databases and Excel spreadsheets. Manual data entry and end‑of‑day reporting made tracking, reporting and cost visibility slow and error‑prone, with inventory counts off by roughly 7% and shipping reports taking about two and a half hours to prepare.

By adopting the Plex Manufacturing Cloud to connect shop floor, inventory, quality and accounting data in real time, Avon gained drill‑down costing, faster supplier rework tracking and automated reporting. The result: inventory accuracy improved to about 98% (now off ~2%), shipping report prep dropped to 30 minutes, management gained real‑time visibility for better decisions, and the company sustained roughly 20% average growth over the past decade while operating with leaner resources.

Avon Gear Company

Matt Korth

President