Case Study: OKAY Industries achieves real-time visibility, streamlined operations and scalable growth with Plex Systems (Plex Cloud ERP)

OKAY Industries Realizes Higher Plant Efficiencies with the Plex Manufacturing Cloud

OKAY Industries, Inc. is a precision stamping, machining, and prototyping company that makes complex metal stampings for medical, defense, firearms and other specialty markets where tolerances are extremely tight. The company struggled with 18 disparate databases and a UNIX system only accessible to administrators, leaving production without real-time shop-floor visibility and slowing ISO-driven continuous-improvement, costing and quality analyses.

OKAY implemented Plex Cloud ERP (starting with quality functions) to consolidate data, automate costing and reporting, and provide 100% real-time information to the production floor. The change replaced 18 databases, enabled costing reports in seconds, eliminated part shortages, improved root-cause analysis, increased press efficiency by about 2% per quarter, and let the company sustain double-digit (17–23%) annual growth without adding staff outside production.

OKAY Industries

Jason Howey

President