Discrete Manufacturing
Discrete manufacturers are manufacturers that produce or build specific products. Although every company is unique and specialized in their own way, a number of challenges are common to all discreet discrete manufacturers. Below are some of the companies that PlanetTogether has helped make more efficient, cutting costs and waste while optimizing production
Sumitomo Electric Lightwave
Sumitomo Electric Lightwave, leader in the highest quality of fiber optic cables, provides the public with high speed internet, voice, video, and data applications supplied through their vast line of conventional fiber optic cables. They offer their customers over 6,000 cable variations, further customized by the customers' specified lengths.
Results with PlanetTogether: Two-way real time communication between plant operations, Improved Shipment Promise Dates by 8%, Increased Production Output Levels by 16%, Improved Resource Utilization
Knapheide Truck Equipment
Knapheide turns General Motors, Ford, and Dodge truck chassis into working trucks used by municipalities and contractors across the country. Knapheide builds 5,000 trucks every year, with 10 to 20 jobs running concerrently at any time and reviews hundreds of jobs each day.
Results with PlanetTogether: Reduced Scheduling to 15 minutes per day, Provides Accurate Delivery Dates, Increased Product Quality
Ancestry.com
With more than 7 billion names and 26,000 searchable databases, Ancestry.com is the #1 online source for family history information, including the web's largest collection of historical records.
Results with PlanetTogether: Increase in productivity, one-hundred fold change in visibility, ability to compare impact of changes, forecasts delivery dates.
Anspach Effort, Inc.
Anspach Effort, Inc. is an evolving manufacturer of high-speed instrumentation for neurosurgery, neurotology, otology, and orthopedics. Anspach runs a complex operation with more than 1,100 jobs and 2,000 concurrent orders. The instruments Anspach produces are involved in critical, life-saving operations around the world.
Results with PlanetTogether: 15% Decrease in Inventory Stocks, 20% Reduction in Overtime Expenses, Accomdation to Rush Orders, and Alleviated Production Delays.
Church Hill Classics
Church Hill Classics specializes in high quality diploma frames, certificate frames and award handling well over 1,000 concurrent orders during graduation and other special occasions. Church Hill Classics designs diploma frames for your university, college, organization, or military branch making special memories last a life time.
Results with PlanetTogether: Handles Multi-Level Bill of Materials, Optimizes Their Production Time
Accredo Packaging
Accredo Packing, Inc. is at the forefront in the development of sustainable, flexible packing solutions, including the manufacturing of packaging from renewable resources. Their highly efficient production facility enables them to produce high barrier packaging solutions using less VOC's, energy, waste and water usage.
Haremar Plastic Manufacturing
Haremar Plastic Manufacturing has been a leading North American manufacturer of polyethylene film products. They utilize the best raw materials with the latest technologies and processing equipment to provide their customers with the highest quality products. They take both pride and satisfaction in knowing their efforts make a difference in product quality an customer satisfaction.
The Duck Company
Creative thinking and cutting-edge design have established The Duck Company as a leader in the resort apparel industry and has established their reputation for innovation and performance. Offering over 1200 t-shirt designs, travelers can find Duck Company products throughout the continental U.S., the Caribbean, Canada and Mexico.
UNITRAC Railroad Materials, Inc.
UNITRAC Railroad Materials, Inc. has more than 80 years of experience in manufacturing nad supplying the U.S.'s railroads with their full line of high-quality track products while striving to provide excellent workmanship, competitive pricing, dependable delivery dates, and friendly customer service
Highland Corporation, Inc.
Highland Corporation Inc. has grown from humble beginnings into a service oriented business and a leading packaging and label source for produce. Specializing in "just-in-time" deliveries, Highland Corporation uses state-of-the-art technology to track shipments and other packing materials all the way from their manufacturers to your dock.
American Press
A printing manufacturer located in central Virginia, American Press is both a premier printer and distributor of special interest magazines and catalogs. Here they strive to provide the services, both tecnological and educational, that their customers need and want in order to service their readers and audiences.
Certified Transmission
When Certified Transmission first opened in 1979, it was in an abandoned 2-bay gas station. Now, it's become one of the largest independent remanufacturered transmissions repair and remanufacturing facilities in the U.S.
Meadowcraft
Meadowcraft's sophisticated network of skilled professionals focus on craftsmanship, superior quality, and taking pride in a job well done. Dedication to quality has been one of the foundations of Meadowcraft's success since its founding in the early 20th century. From its start as a small, family-owned shop into the largest manufacturer of outdoor wrought iron furniture in the U.S., Meadowcraft continues to lead domestic manufacturing of outdoor furniture.
AMZ Manufacturing
Since 1992, AMZ has striven to provide high-quality plated finishes to customers in defense, electronic, and commerical industries. AMZ plates to ASTM and military specifications, as well as individual customer requirements. They provide the experience necessary to work with customers on new applications to determine the most cost effective solutions to plating problems.
Montacargas AC
A company established in 1991, Montacargas sells, repairs, and maintains income and service charge managment teams. Their services include complete analysis of customer needs and provision of various management alternatives
SkyFiber Inc.
Founded in 1996, SkyFiber Inc. has delivered patented Optical Wireless Broadband networking products that address the rapidly growing requirements globally for fast, secure, and affordable high-capacity wireless networking solutions.
Hayes Industries Ltd.
Hayes Industries Ltd. is a custom and high=volume commodity manufacturer of several niche, customer-specific American-made products, such as foam products, injection molding, machining, custom equipment manufacturing and custom cabling. Their diverse product lines serve a number of industries such as construction, geophysical, oil, defense, and other consumer products.
Selby's
A manufacturer of banners, flags and marquees, Selby's focuses on understanding customer needs, creating solutions, and delivering to a high customer satisfaction. To this end, they are constantly using new technology, materials and applications to continue raising the bar. Their creative, logistical and production skills, in conjunction with their dedication to customer service are why many leading organizations go to Selby's.
Coilmaster Corporation
Coilmaster Corp. is a modern, state-of-the-art manufacturer of quality coils and condensers. Their plant is designed to accommodate the material inventories, manufacturing inventories, manufacturing area, quality assurance stations and test and product development areas that they need in order to ensure customer satisfaction.
Scisense Inc.
Scisense Inc. has rapidly established itslef as a leading manufacturer in micro-sensing devices for a number of different applications. Its first device was used as a pressure sensor for computer mice, and has since expanded to include solutions from mice all the way to cardiovascular research. All their products are designed and manufactured in-house to ensure consistent quality.
Schleifring
Schleifring is a leading developer and manufacturer of electrical slip ring systems and non-contacting rotary joints for the transmission of power, electrical signals, Databus-signals, and a number of other media as well. Working primarily in the automotive, surveillance, defense, medical and security industries, Schleifring has become known for its reliability and versatility.
TEC
TEC is an employee-owned company that designs and manufactures diagnostic instruments for various industries. TEC works in aviation, materials testing, nuclear power and electric power. Their expertise has served to provide stringent quality control measures and a commitment to product reliability.
Data Center Systems
Data Center Systems has become a world leader in designing, manufacturing, and installing fiber optic structured cabling solutions. With more than a decade of experience in connectivity innovation, their cable solutions are used in a number of applications. They fit particularly well with servicing the needs of large, complex data centers.
Telamon Corp.
Telamon Corporation offers a wide ragne of services, not the least of which is their Industrial Product Services branch. They specialize in identifying each customers' challenges and providing supply chain management throughout the entire project. They handle the steps from procurement and inventory management all the way to the actual assembly ofhte customer's products.
Leading Technology Composites Inc.
LTC was founded in 1993 and has since grown to serve a number of well-known customers such as Ford and Lockheed-Martin. As LTC has matured along with the composites industry, they've built core competencies in defense related military vehicle systems, personal body armor plates, aerospace structural and interior assemblies, and commercial automotive protection.





