{"id":3028,"date":"2015-04-02T16:58:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T20:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/ama-plastics-maximizes-success\/"},"modified":"2015-04-02T16:58:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T20:58:59","slug":"ama-plastics-maximizes-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/ama-plastics-maximizes-success\/","title":{"rendered":"AMA Plastics: How the West\u2019s Largest Injection Molder Maximizes Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iqms.com\/erp-case-study-videos\/ama-erp-success.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-829 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/17\/AMA-Plastics-1-300x164.png\" alt=\"AMA Plastics testimonial video\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/amaplastics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AMA Plastics<\/a> is a Top 100 Custom Plastic Injection Molder in North America. In its 156,000 square foot facility that includes an ISO Class 8 (100,000) clean room and tooling department.<\/p>\n<p>AMA Plastics uses its 92 molding machines and 60 Yushin robots to serve the consumer, medical, industrial, military and automotive industries. Employee-owned, AMA Plastics runs 24\/7 and is the largest injection molder in the West.<\/p>\n<h2>Growth Challenges<\/h2>\n<p>In the beginning, AMA Plastics was running its business on a combination of spreadsheets, whiteboards and separate accounting and manufacturing packages.<\/p>\n<p>As is common when maintaining a company with multiple software systems, AMA Plastics was experiencing challenges <strong>growing its business to the next level<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>ERP Solution<\/h2>\n<p>Rather than continue to operate with insufficient software, AMA Plastics selected to implement a comprehensive ERP system that would support its future growth. Over the years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iqms.com\/\">IQMS<\/a>\u2019 manufacturing-specific <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iqms.com\/products\/erp\/\">ERP solution<\/a> has helped AMA Plastics develop into the manufacturing leader it is today.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iqms.com\/erp-case-study-videos\/ama-erp-success.html\">video<\/a> to hear more about AMA Plastics\u2019 impressive story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To learn more about how IQMS provides strong choices to fit the needs and interests of manufacturers everywhere, download our whitepaper, <a href=\"https:\/\/info.iqms.com\/erp-deployment-choice-is-new-cloud\">ERP Deployment: Choice is the New Cloud<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMA Plastics is a Top 100 Custom Plastic Injection Molder in North America. In its 156,000 square foot facility that includes an ISO Class 8 (100,000) clean room and tooling department. AMA Plastics uses its 92 molding machines and 60<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/ama-plastics-maximizes-success\/\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":3029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-manufacturing-across-america","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}