Archer’s Engine Line
30 days/year of unplanned downtime prevented
Before Arda
Restocking is tedious & Inefficient: Each material transfer request requires ~30 steps to complete and tags 17 people on Slack.
SAP Is Not The Source Of Truth: Counts in SAP are not correct and transfer requests are augmented by a Slack workflow.
Production is delayed 30 days/year : 1–2 weekly stockouts stop the line for 2-4 hours. Over the course of a year, that’s 30 days of downtime.
Approach
Physical Kanban Cards: Technicians moved cards to drop point for replenishment.
Digital Workflow: Cards were scanned into Arda, triggering reorder signals without Slack threads or PDFs.
Lightweight Integration: Arda created an integration framework for Jira and SAP, reducing reordering workflow friction.
Results
Stockouts Eliminated: Four consecutive weeks without a single stockout.
Technician Adoption: Cards were intuitive and quickly became part of daily routines.
Downtime Eliminated: Arda sped up production by 13% by keeping lines running.
"We did not have a single stock out during this month. The technicians really took to it. They thought it was super easy. My part was also easy when it came to me. What I needed to do was very clear, and I know we have plenty of parts, so that was already a huge success." Arda helps manufacturers 25x efficiency and 4x revenue with index cards and AI. By creating a using Arda Cards to trigger automated replenishment workflows is dead simple to use and makes replenishment 10x faster. Scanning cards to trigger action generates a real-time, proprietary production data flywheel that leverages AI analytics to optimize replenishment. Manufacturers love it. It delivers value on day 1. Customers routinely increase capital efficiency 25x and revenue 4x. We generated $400k annual revenue on a prototype. We launched the product this month, and now GE, GM, SpaceX, Tesla, Thermio-Fisher, and other top manufacturers are using Arda Cards. We're raising $400m to support that growth.
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