A paperless shop floor project is a proven investment with a clear and rapid ROI. Our customers have found that the annual savings of moving from a paper-driven shop floor to paperless is in the range of 1% to 2% of the entire cost of running the facility ($1-2 million savings annually for a $100 million plant). The ROI related directly to CIMx Interax software and related services is typically one year.

Hard Savings

Eliminate Paper Handling

• Printing, copying, distributing, changing, and retrieving paper increases costs.
• This savings varies from $100,000 to more than $1 million annually depending on the size and complexity of the company.

Eliminate Walk Around Time

• It is unproductive.
• It costs you about ½ hr/person/day.
• Non-productive time does not help produce the product.
• The savings of having all job information instantly and accurately is proportional to the number of people across the shop floor.
• More than 50% of this time can be saved every day resulting in increased production throughput. It can add up to more than $500,000 annually.

Enforce Quality Checks

• Waiting for quality checks costs time and money.
• Shop floor data may or may not be entered on-time and work still progresses.
• Errors are made in data collection, data handling and data entry later.
• Data is not available until days of production have passed.
• Error elimination alone can save you from $100,000 to $500,000 annually.
• Think of how much your customers will like this.

Increase the Speed and Accuracy of Your Change Management Process

• Change management on paper is possible only with intensive employee training.
• More elaborate quality checks and sign offs are necessary to ensure proper procedure.
• Time spent creating a build book and collecting information is wasteful.
• Customers have saved more than 50% of the time and cost of change management.
• You can save up to a staff year or more annually by producing the as-built record on demand.

Soft Savings

• Errors made interpreting coded ERP routing information are eliminated.
• Errors made mireading or misunderstanding paper instructions are eliminated.
• Errors made using the wrong version of information are eliminated.
• Fewer errors result in higher quality and less waste.
• The productivity improvements in a paperless environment result in improved cycle time or increased production with both top and bottom line improvements.
• Fewer errors always lead to higher quality. Higher quality means fewer returns and improved on time deliveries. It also means improved process management with fewer costly emergencies.

ROI Result

These hard and soft savings contribute to an ROI result of less than a year in most companies. The benefits continue to accumulate each year leading to both top and bottom line improvements. In many companies the 3 year return is from 3 to 10 times the initial investment which makes a paperless shop floor project an attractive investment.