Automatic Feed Company, Inc.

Automatic Feed Company, Inc. (AFC) is a $40 million premier machine tool manufacturer based in Napoleon, Ohio that serves the major U.S. and Japanese automakers.

Challenge

AFC faced global competition and needed breakthrough technology to dramatically reduce project completion times and reduce costs.


Industry:	Manufacturing
Region:	North America
Products:	Progress OpenEdge

Solution

AFC selected an ERP system from Progress partner Encompix to integrate the entire manufacturing process, including accounting, costing, quoting, quality, scheduling, and human resources.

Results

Reduced Costs: AFC realized a 20% cost reduction with its Progress solution.
Improved efficiency: AFC has vastly improved its information access.
Improved productivity: The company achieved a 30% improvement in project cycle time.

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"Encompix's integrated system helped us become more efficient and cost effective. We reduced our costs by 20% and improved project cycle time by 30%."
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Progress Software Corporation supplies business application platform, soa infrastructure and data infrastructure software that simplifies and accelerates the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Our superior business application platforms include Progress OpenEdge for high performance SOA integration and software as a service (SaaS), and Progress Apama for complex event processing. Our innovative event-driven SOA infrastructure solutions include Progress Sonic Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Progress DataXtend semantic data integration, Progress Actional SOA management and SOA governance, and DataDirect data connectivity for mainframe SOA and web services. Our data infrastructure products include DataDirect Connect for database driver and data provider connections to relational databases and XML data integration, EasyAsk for enterprise search and e-commerce, and ObjectStore object data management.

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