MESING

About the client

MESING is a leading manufacturer of measurement and automation equipment whose high-end devices are used across industries around the world — from Europe through Asia to the Americas. It specialises in bespoke solutions that match each client's individual requirements precisely. Most of its products are one-off, designed and manufactured to order.

What problem was the client facing?

We started the project by selecting INTEMAC expert Milan Vavroušek.

In the first phase we used a simple analysis to map the flow of an order through production in detail. We defined what needed to be sped up, assessed the current state of both production and non-production processes, and identified the weak and inefficient points.
Having weighed all the available alternatives for digitalising production and order monitoring, in the second phase we decided to develop the monitoring system in-house with the company's own programmers. That saved a significant amount of money.
Thanks to the very good results of phase 2, a third phase followed: digitalising the working system for managing the design and development of measuring instruments.

The solution

Analysis and findings. Presenting the analysis in a friendly, open way showed the MESING management new possibilities. The company can now see how to use barcodes and QR codes to run production effectively and monitor work in progress.
System design. An effective order management system was designed, supported by barcode and QR code scanners, providing online information available to managers and employees alike.
Digitalising development. Together with the company we designed the digitalisation of the system for designing and developing measuring instruments at the quotation stage, and for the prototype and its testing.

System preview

Results and impact

The time needed to deliver comparable orders fell by 10–15 %, which means MESING can now deliver 10–15 % more orders per month. The company also expects revenue to grow by 5–8 % this year thanks to the new system.

Every external quote for production monitoring started at CZK 800,000 (with no customisation included at all), and came with the drawback of having to follow the vendor's data entry procedure and buy specified terminals.

The in-house MESING solution, by contrast, cost a fraction of that:

External quotes for production monitoring	from CZK 800,000
In-house MESING solution – estimated total cost	CZK 302,000

The cost of training operators to enter data and the future cost of maintaining the system both disappeared.

Expert

Milan Vavroušek

INTEMAC

“MESING is a beautiful example of how step-by-step digitalisation can be handled with internal resources. This solution has many advantages — completely economical data entry into the system, no need to train operators, and zero fees for maintenance and updates.”

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Client

Vítězslav Svoboda

Sales Director, MESING

“Thanks to this automated data collection and real-time evaluation, we have gained an overview of every part we make. That lets us plan all the assembly work tied to individual orders better, and we have also cut delivery times.”

Business case

The investment came to CZK 302,000. We expect revenue to grow by at least 5 % this year, i.e. CZK 2,250,000, and with average order profitability of 8–10 % we expect a profit of CZK 225,000 within this year.

Digital oversight of production