Driving discrete manufacturing excellence with DELMIAWorks

Injection molders and discrete manufacturers are facing increasing complexity as customer expectations, compliance standards, and multi-plant coordination pressures outpace the capabilities of spreadsheets and disconnected systems. Organizations are turning to manufacturing-specific ERP platforms to gain real-time visibility, standardize processes, and control costs across production, materials, quality, and scheduling. DELMIAWorks supports this by unifying ERP, MES, quality, and traceability in a single environment that captures machine activity at the source and ties it directly to planning and finance. Nucleus found that manufacturers can reduce excess inventory by up to 30 percent, cut downtime and waste, and increase workforce productivity by 10 to 25 percent as decisions move from reactive to real time. Analysts interviewed plastics manufacturers who replaced fragmented systems and improved cost accuracy, shortened reporting cycles, and strengthened lot-level traceability. These findings show that DELMIAWorks helps organizations reduce operational overhead, improve margin control, and create the process consistency required to onboard new facilities and products without introducing additional complexity.