Finding the constraint from the doorway
- 31%
- Faster fault localisation
- 6 → 2 wk
- Engineer onboarding
- 17%
- Modelled throughput gain from relayout
Manufacturing
Capital equipment, $45k–$140k per unit
Every machine quote round-tripped through applications engineering because only they knew which spindle, axis and coolant combinations were valid. Nine days elapsed between enquiry and quote. Competitors quoting in two were winning deals on responsiveness alone.
The constraint set went into a rule graph — including the ones nobody had written down, like the 24,000 rpm spindle requiring through-spindle coolant as a warranty condition. Sales engineers now configure live in the customer's office, on a laptop, offline if the site has no signal.
“We assumed the win would be the 3D. The win was that applications engineering stopped being a bottleneck and started being a reviewer.”
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Figures on this page are illustrative composites, not audited client metrics, and the client is unnamed by design. They indicate what this kind of engagement is worth measuring — not what it is guaranteed to return.
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