Case Study: Rex Materials Group achieves dramatically shorter lead times with Synchrono Manufacturing Software

Synchrono Helps Job Shop Empower Employees to Better Manage Workloads

Rex Materials Group, a custom vacuum-formed ceramic fiber manufacturer with three U.S. facilities, needed a better way to manage replenishment, planning, and lead times as its homegrown theory-of-constraints system could no longer clearly track variability. The company turned to Synchrono Manufacturing Software to support drum-buffer-rope operations and eliminate workarounds.

Synchrono Manufacturing Software was implemented first at one facility and then rolled out to the others in rapid go-lives, helping Rex Materials Group improve scheduling and decision-making on the shop floor. The results included cutting lead times from three to four weeks to as little as five days for many orders, with some products shipping the next day, and boosting on-time shipments from 50% to 98% in one facility.

Rex Materials Group

David Rex

President and CEO