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Automotive Suppliers

Your OEE number shouldn't be a surprise at the end of the shift

Between OEE targets, scrap reviews, and a customer schedule that doesn't bend, automotive supply doesn't leave room for guesswork. BHIVES gives your shop floor the same real-time visibility your best supervisor carries around in his head, so a late part or a bad batch shows up before it becomes a missed delivery.

One of our customers, an automotive aftermarket manufacturer, put it simply: "Even as a small business, we're very serious about implementing an Manufacturing Execution System (MES) early, so we don't have the headache of doing it later when it's a lot harder."

What running automotive supply actually feels like

It's the third changeover of the shift, and the operator running it wasn't the one trained on it. A part comes back from a customer flagged for a dimension out of spec, and you need to know which machine, which shift, which lot, fast. The schedule you built Monday doesn't survive Tuesday's rush order. OEE gets calculated at the end of the week, after it's too late to fix anything about this week.

It shows up as a scrap bin that's fuller than it should be, a delivery that's late by a day nobody caught coming, a customer audit that turns into a scramble for paper travelers. They're Tuesday.

How BHIVES fits into that day

The changeover comes with digital work instructions built into the job, so it doesn't matter who's running it. When a part gets flagged, the batch, the machine, and the operator are already tied together, not reconstructed from memory. The schedule adjusts around the rush order instead of getting rebuilt from scratch. OEE, scrap, and throughput show up live, on the floor, while there's still time to do something about them.

It's one shift, handled.

In their own words

"We're a manufacturer of automotive aftermarket products. We came up with our own design for a product the market needed, never intended to be a manufacturer... But as we've gotten bigger, we've realized we need to approach it proactively. Even as a small business, we're very serious about implementing an MES early, so we don't have the headache of doing it later when it's a lot harder. What excites me is being able to look at costing, tracking inventory, having the dashboards to see everything live, and giving me real-time access into the efficiency of my client."

Automotive aftermarket manufacturer, BHIVES customer

Built for CNC, molding, and assembly floors alike

CNC machining, metal fabrication, precision components, injection molding, and automotive assemblies all run on the same pressure: hit the customer's schedule, hold the tolerance, and prove it after the fact. BHIVES was built around that pressure.