Case Study: Sierra Monitor Corporation achieves immediate ROI and cuts processes from months to days with Propel

Sierra Monitor Corporation - Customer Case Study

Sierra Monitor Corporation, an MSA Safety Company based in California that builds industrial IoT systems for building automation and safety, faced fragmented back-end platforms and scattered shared folders across operations, engineering, sales, and marketing. This created mismanaged information, long launch cycles, manual data exchange (even USBs), missed opportunities, and excessive meetings. As the company scaled, VP Michael Farr looked to consolidate onto a cloud PLM built on Salesforce and selected Propel.

Propel delivered a single, integrated PLM/QMS platform on Salesforce that centralized product and customer records, supplier data, training, and workflows. The result was immediate ROI: processes that once took months now take days, cross-team communication and supplier collaboration improved dramatically (including remote coordination during COVID), training records enabled rapid compliance, and IT overhead fell. By using Propel, Sierra Monitor achieved faster launches, better traceability, and measurable time savings across the organization.

Sierra Monitor Corporation

Michael Farr

VP of Operations