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nown for high quality,
multi-color labeling, Labels
West, in business since 1978,
specializes in the production of self
adhesive labels used primarily for
product packaging. The company
prints labels for the food and beverage,
wine, and personal care industries. In a
soft economy, the company was looking
for ways to cut costs without impacting
its ability to serve its customers.
There are hundreds of individual
jobs processing through the Labels
West plant at any one time. Each job
involves several steps, and each step being able to save time using its recently installed job tracking software allows
takes place in a unique location with the Labels West to allocate valuable employee time in more important areas, like closely
working with its customers to get labels ready and shipped.
facility. Critical documents (drawing and
specifications, for example) are housed
in a small job folder that travels through
the production process. The company’s when information needed to be added Finding a Resolution
employees were spending several hours or modified, obviously a time-consuming Labels West began researching job
each week searching for these folders task that needed to be simplified. tracking solutions that use barcode
technology to track its jobs. What they
needed was job data software that is
specially designed for small to mid-
sized fabricators/manufacturers. They
came across and were interested in the
CheckMate tracking system to solve the
search problem and to automate the
job tracking process. Dynamic Systems,
Inc., a Washington software developer,
specializes in data collection, and
installed the job tracking program at
the label converter.
Currently, about 25 employees
actively use the software. A barcode
is printed on the job and is scanned
as it moves into a new location.
Management is able to quickly locate
the job folders using the “search”
Dynamic systems helps Labels West, a print
manufacturer, track production jobs, save money
and increase customer service with Checkmate
job tracking software.
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function of the software. This simple their customers’ satisfaction.
solution is saving 20 hours per week in Job Data includes the ability to
labor for the company, which equates record actual labor, parts and scrap
to over $15,000 annually. The software against the jobs. The system installs on
was paid for in less than 3 months – a a Windows based PC, and is very easy
great ROI. to use.
Great for Customer Service “I would highly recommend this
Besides the labor cost savings, solution. It does exactly what it is
CheckMate’s reporting allows Labels supposed to do,” states John Shanley,
West to manage the company’s job owner at Labels West. “We are very
flow – they now know where a job pleased with CheckMate. It installed
is and how long it’s been there. It easily, is stable and the technical
eliminates the need for employees support is excellent.” fP
to interrupt each other, thus slowing
down production.
Along with improving efficiencies,
they can respond more quickly
and accurately to their customers’
questions about lead-times and
expected complete dates. If a customer
wants to know the status of a job, the dynamic Systems .
(800) 342-3999; www.a-barcode.com
answer is a click away. And knowing
the exact location of a job increases Labels west
(800) 540-3009; www.labelswest.com/
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