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LMC Industries, Inc.
Improving operations and increasing profitability
A proven, high-precision contract manufacturer, LMC Industries tackles clients’ toughest engineering and fabrication challenges. Wanting to push its own performance limits, LMC engaged its trusted partner, Wipfli, to assess decision-making capabilities and evaluate modern technology solutions. Their latest collaboration: an Intouch shop-floor implementation delivering a 10-15% increase in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and reclaiming 5,000+ machine hours per quarter.
The Challenge
LMC Industries had the talent and customer trust to thrive but was hampered by sluggish operations, inconsistent paper-based data collection and limited KPI and operational visibility. It sought strategic guidance to achieve optimal, profitable performance. To gain long-term viability, it needed to invest in the right priorities. With successful board advisory and past engagement experience, Wipfli would bring solutions aligned directly to LMC’s operations, needs and factory culture.
The Solution
Wipfli embedded resources with firsthand experience in everything from the factory floor to board leadership. The team quickly built authentic connections and trust, leading to process improvements, strategic plans and technical solutions. Wipfli:
- Assessed LMC’s business health, readiness and needs.
- Identified the need to add technology to the shop floor, recommending Intouch for real-time visibility.
- Translated LMC’s requirements into configuration expectations and automated data capture on eight machines, quickly scaling to over 40.
- Developed a phased plan for technology and process improvement, including a multilevel training and an adoption plan.
- Empowered LMC to foster effective data review, shift communication and accountability.
Wipfli’s hands-on approach and leadership built momentum; LMC’s champions drove accountability.
Wipfli knows and understands us and has built trust with our factory floor to our board. They’ve looked at hundreds of companies that look like us and know how to drive and increase the value of our organization. They have real-world experience and put that to work increasing our productivity and profitability.
The results
By working with Wipfli, LMC gained:
- Modern technology and processes that incorporated and expanded workforce expertise, leading to higher adoption and sustained viability.
- Real-time operational visibility, accurate reporting and proactive risk identification.
- Sustainable performance gains, better margins and operational efficiency.
The Intouch implementation spurred measurable results, including a 10% increase in value-added dollars per employee, 5,000 machine hours saved per quarter and OEE improvement by 10–15%, with further gains expected. With Intouch expansion plans, LMC sees its partnership with Wipfli essential to sustaining profitability, maintaining adoption, continuing floor-shop innovation, and inspiring future transformation.
10
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OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) improvement with further gains expected
