Company Overview
Zimmer Design & Manufacturing is a rapidly growing CNC machining operation in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2021, the company expanded from a single employee to a team of fourteen. As growth accelerated, maintaining visibility across people, priorities, and delivery commitments became increasingly difficult.
1 → 14
Team Growth Since 2021
6
CNC Mills
2
Lathes
15 min
Dashboard Refresh
The Challenge
Zimmer originally began evaluating Skody as a scheduling solution. During implementation, Adam realized a deeper issue: without accurate labor reporting and visibility into production activity, scheduling alone would never solve the problem.
The team needed:
That's the whole mentality of garbage in, garbage out.
On the Floor
Skody dashboards run live on shop floor monitors at Zimmer, powered by ProShop ERP data. Every operator sees the same numbers, every shift.
The Solution
See who is clocked in, clocked out, and assigned to which jobs in real time.
Monitor on-time delivery performance company-wide, updated every 15 minutes.
Large monitors broadcast production metrics so every operator can see the goal.
Job, routing, and labor data synced automatically from ProShop ERP.
A Day in the Shop
If we have anything at risk not shipping on time, we can find those bottlenecks, move it to different machines, and assign it to different people pretty quickly.
The Impact
Before, on-time delivery was a monthly meeting. With this, every employee, every day, every 15 minutes, it gets updated.
"You can react to it on an hourly basis instead of a monthly basis."
Employee Adoption
Employees like it. It's almost like a scorecard. It's a goal to reach.
Rather than creating micromanagement concerns, the dashboards became a shared operational scoreboard. Employees understand priorities and can see performance in real time.
Managing by Exception
"I really don't walk the floor too much anymore."
— Adam Zimmerman
Instead of spending time hunting for information, Adam can immediately identify priorities, staffing issues, and production risks. The dashboards help ensure critical work stays visible while lower-priority work remains organized in the schedule.
Give your team real-time visibility into labor, production, and delivery performance.