Reduce Costs 8 Ways

AutoCrib systems have saved millions of dollars for customers large and small worldwide

1. Reduce consumption — stop waste, fraud/theft and abuse.
   • You control access. With AutoCrib's industry leading software and dispensing machine systems, you decide what items each employee can access. You can place limits on tool and supply consumption by employee, departmental budget, department, shift, job, or total dollars per employee.
     • Problems with processes or employees are identified. Setting upper control limits for a specific process insures that tools are not needlessly wasted. If a user is breaking or consuming tools at a very high rate, an industrial vending machine can refuse to issue a tool, advising the user, "Sorry, you're over limit. See your supervisor." Supervision can deal with the out-of-control process now — rather than after the shop has consumed every tool in stock needed for the operation.
   • You can track usage by individual employee for increased accountability. So you'll know exactly what items are being used by each employee. When employees know their usage is being tracked, they tend to become more responsible.
   • Every department is accountable. By putting an automated dispensing machine at point of use, each department and work cell is accountable for tool usage. The entire automated dispensing process is recorded. And all usage data is real time and at your fingertips.
   • You can dispense in the correct package quantity for less waste.
   • Your indirect supplies costs are no longer invisible. Dispensing machines are powered by AutoCrib's state-of-the-art inventory management software, giving you real-time access to better tool consumption data.
   • A "pull" system of dispensing tools and supplies is a component of Lean manufacturing. Only about 35% of the cost of ownership is the purchase price of an item. The remaining 65% is made up of receiving, counting, storage, disposal and handling costs. With automated dispensing, many of these costs are eliminated or can be shifted to the distributor.

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