Melco SUMMIT Manager Testimonial from Texas Engraved
As your business grows, file management and order organization can quickly become overwhelming. Increased orders are a win for your business–but without the right system, they can lead to bottlenecks, delays, and daily frustration. Melco SUMMIT Manager changed that for Gary Rodgers at Texas Engraved. By centralizing design files, simplifying order flow, and keeping production organized, he streamlined operations and confidently invested in more machines to keep up with demand.
Fill Product Gaps and Increase Profit Margins Through Embroidery
“Texas Engraved has been in business right at 5 years. We started as a personalized cutting board business and although the cutting boards are still our bread and butter, we have expanded into a full-blown personalized product business with current capabilities including laser engraving, sand-carving, direct-to-object printing and finally, embroidery! We were granted licensing about two years back for a few universities and we began to develop products that really took off.”
Why The Melco SUMMIT Became Their Machine of Choice
“In January, we attended Impressions in Long Beach and decided that we should dip our toes in the water with embroidery – specifically geared towards our collegiate market. At impressions, we chose Melco, and specifically the Melco SUMMIT, for a number of reasons. Primarily because of Melco Fusion which integrates with our Shopify, and the touchscreen interface on the SUMMIT which leads to ease of use by the operators.”
Searching for a Quality Production Management System
“We set the SUMMIT machine up on our network and pull files from a shared network drive – and while this initially appeared to be an ideal situation, it became clear that we needed something faster for full production, especially as the number of files in the folders increased.
We had a nice chat with Mike Doe at Melco during Impressions Dallas about improvements to speed up the interface. Then Mike introduced us to SUMMIT Manager and it has solved a number of problems for us! The ability to push files directly to the machine from a workstation was a game-changer for us.”
SUMMIT Manager has solved a number of problems for us! The ability to bypass the challenging shared-file interface on the SUMMIT and push files directly to the machine from a workstation was a game-changer for us.
How Melco SUMMIT Manager Solved Several Production Challenges
“We had recently purchased 2 additional SUMMIT machines before Impressions Dallas, and performance improvements were high on my list as we were rolling into Q4. SUMMIT Manager has made it much easier to manage our volume of one-off (individually personalized) jobs to our 3 SUMMIT machines!
With SUMMIT Manager, we’ve learned that flexibility is key. The ability to group and ungroup machines on the fly can help manage larger orders for us, while being able to push our high numbers of single-item orders to a queue on one or two machines makes production more manageable.
SUMMIT Manager has been a strong performer for us with zero downside and has allowed us to change the way we think about embroidery – allowing us to switch between large, identical jobs that would traditionally be done on multi-head machines to large runs of small, individually personalized jobs on the fly and at a moment’s notice.”
For any business large or small that has (or is considering) multiple SUMMIT machines, SUMMIT Manager is a must-have.
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