Changing culture at The Automation Partnership with ERP SyteLine

Alan Graham, IT manager at The Automation Partnership, says the solution is to support a shift from former discrete production to batch manufacturing, while also facilitating growth, and boosting productivity in a growing market. He explains that the company used to be focused on the manufacture of bespoke large scale machines that could take two years to build and one year to install. However, it now produces smaller cell culture machines in batches of five to 10, which take around two months to make. The point, he says, is that SyteLine 8.0's functionality equips The Automation Partnership with the flexibility to adjust quickly to changes in demand across a broad product portfolio. "Market conditions have driven a change to our business model in recent years, as spending on the large customised cell culture machines, which formed the bedrock of our existence, simply diminished as the recession took hold," states Graham. "SyteLine provides us with the resilience and flexibility to respond to market changes in the future, while at the same time supporting our current need to stay productive, meet customer demand and grow our business," he adds. He explains that SyteLine facilitates 360 degree visibility of customer orders, enabling them to be consistently and continuously tracked and delivered on time. On top of that, the ERP system can be tuned to the needs and preferences of personnel across finance, purchasing, engineering and production.