Testimonials

The Productivity Team (TPT) is a major engineering services firm located in Michigan. On two recent projects Proplanner provided our team with the analysis, and visualization of the materials handling systems based upon data collected in the field by our staff. Each study involved the detailed evaluation of over 100 materials handling people in plant sizes exceeding 500K square feet. In only three weeks per plant, Proplanner's team was able to accurately model both their current state and future state materials handling systems. These analyses included a detailed work study and CAD-based flow diagram for each material handler in each factory. The resulting detailed visual and quantitative reports were a critical asset in defining and selling our solution to the plant and union management at each factory. Each study resulted in a reduced material handling time of over 16% with nearly a $1M annual savings requiring no significant capital investment. Many of the benefits were achieved via the improved design of existing and proposed tugger delivery methods which were designed in Proplanner's new Tugger analysis module.

Dave Sly's interpretive approach to factory planning was way ahead of its time back in 1991 and continues to be a valuable and efficient tool for industrial engineers and process planners. On many domestic and foreign projects we were able to cut indirect and direct labor projections made by typical plant analysis tools by 25-50%. In plants where daily production is over 1000, that's quite an accomplishment in terms of manpower and equipment cost savings.

For years we had been using MSWord for our work instructions with large files and inconsistent results. We found Proplanner an extremely easy way to generate, maintain, control and go "Online" with our extensive collection of work instructions. The screens are intuitive, and the overall system is very customizable. Proplanner's screens were tailored specifically for our production personnel and their work environment. Proplanner is a powerful and low cost tool that will surely raise your production and engineering capabilities.

Proplanner gives manufacturers "information at their fingertips". The product not only helps save time, but it is also affordable. The product is "evolutionary, not revolutionary". In other words, Proplanner merely takes what many manufacturers are already doing on paper and then computerizes that work giving them a better way of performing the work they are already doing. Users can be trained to use Proplanner very quickly.