WRIS client Factivity was featured in the Cleveland Plain Dealer discussing their lean manufacturing software and how it can assist companies to be more efficient during bad economic times.

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Manufacturers will have to be able to gear up quickly or lose out. Now -- while customers are still scarce -- is when these businesses should be fine-tuning their operations to prepare for the recovery.

"They'll need as much efficiency as they can muster to be competitive," said Susan Helper, a manufacturing expert and professor at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School.
 
Readying to meet future demand when business is slow is no easy task. But Helper and others say manufacturing companies that started preparing for the future as soon as the downturn arrived last year will have a huge advantage.

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Factivity Inc. in Beachwood sells computerized scheduling systems to help factories coordinate machines, supplies and workers for jiffy shifts in production and efficient operation. The goal is quicker manufacturing, freedom from excess inventory, smarter use of tools and personnel and improved quality -- just what some factories need for the turnaround.

But John Leiber, Factivity's president, has found that with money tight, few companies are shelling out for new software and the touch-screen stations that run it. Just what manufacturers need -- a way to get ready for when the economy roars again -- seems out of reach to many of Factivity's potential customers for now.

Factivity is no stranger to being in the news.  They were featured in USA Today last month– not for their shop floor control software but for their love of dogs!

… among CEOs, company presidents, chairmen and founders that percentage jumps to 66, according to an unscientific USA TODAY survey. Seventy-five of 114 who responded to a USA TODAY query own at least one dog

…"Never trust a person that does not hug his or her dog … too cold and not caring," says John Leibert, president of technology company Factivity and owner of a 5-year-old wheaten terrier named Scooter.

Factivity uses WRIS for their web hosting, search engine optimization, and pay-per-click marketing needs.