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30% Increasein Productivity

Compass Trailers

At a glance

The wins for Compass Trailers

30%
Increase in productivity
Real-time
Production floor visibility
Bottleneck-free
Highest-priority tasks first

Compass replaced manual systems with live floor visibility — letting management identify bottlenecks and keep staff on the highest-priority task. Output rose 30% with no extra overhead.

Manual systems, hidden bottlenecks

Compass Trailers were running manual systems with little visibility over their production floor — hard to spot bottlenecks until after they'd already cost time.

Live data on every task

Empower replaced those systems with real-time visibility. Management could see exactly where work was stuck and keep staff on the highest-priority task at any given moment.

30% more output, same overhead

The result is a high-output workshop that can handle more orders without increasing overhead — a 30% lift in workshop productivity.

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20–40%
Productivity increase

Faster jobs, greater workshop output — with the same overheads.

$5–$15k
Saved per month

Stop losing money to manual tracking and hidden inefficiencies.

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