So that would mean that a company needs to keep an additional 20 percent in inventory in order to cover the production losses. Sometime it might be 60 percent. Or something else. So inventory piles up to cover those variables. But work on real-time control, know precisely what the machine is or isn't doing, and the planning of the materials requirements becomes closer to what's really happening.
Money is saved.
No longer is it an issue of avoiding customer complaints. It's about doing zero-defect work with less effort. When the process is predictable, locked down, it's cheaper to do. Given that, then it might seem that ATA is a company where people are beating down the doors so they can grab and implement the software that can assist in doing better with less. Most of the orders we don't get, no one does.