We are now proactive in meeting our customer requirements. We can give a guaranteed response time to our Customers of only 2 days for a new design
We have an enhanced belief in our product development team, their innovative capability and their ability to meet the custom business market's requirements
The Mtuft also enables you to structure your business processes to best meet the custom / contract market segment
Creative Design Process
Our sample cycle time has been reduced from 3 to 4 weeks, down to the same day, with available yarn
It use to take us up to 2 weeks to produce a 10 colour palette range for one of our new designs; now we can setup the Mtuft to run overnight and produce this one design with 8 different colours. We just set the Mtuft to run at 5pm and it is finished well before we arrive to work the next morning
We have saved over 20% of our design team time by eliminating the non value adding setup times. This time is now spent on creating more innovative designs for our customers
Previously when I had a new idea, I could only produce 1 sample. Now I can try many variants in the creative process and make a better choice on the best option. This is because the design interface is on the Mtuft; so I can stop it, make a change, then restart it, and see the results immediately
We are now producing more designs and samples, with a faster turn around time. The lead time for a sample can be 20 minutes, so we can give a guaranteed response time to our Customers of only 2 days
We can fully cost a new range based on our Mtuft samples; we weigh and measure the amount of yarn used, then we apply our standard costs to determine the overall production costs
The Mtuft enables us to perfect our new product ideas before we commit them to our pilot production plant i.e. theoretical construction development, dye development and diagnostic work. This exploratory stage is critical in the creative design process
Ease of Installation
We produced our first Customer sample on day 3 of owning the Mtuft machine
Risk Management - Production
The Mtuft helps our Manufacturing Team access the production risks with new ranges
Sample Quality
The Mtuft sample quality is approximately 95% aligned to our production machinery
The sample quality is far superior to samples produced by hand trialists
Sampling Costs
We have had a 90% reduction in the cost to produce our Tufted carpet samples
Since our sample costs have come down; we now no longer need to consider the cost of making a sample, we just do it.
Business Justification
Our business justification was based on an 18 month payback period, with the financial savings based on labour costs. We achieved this payback in less than 18 months
A change of mindset is required to maximise the benefits from the Mtuft