Who is LineSight for?

LineSight is built for metal service centers that process flat-rolled product and run slitting lines.

The clearest signal of fit is simple. Somebody at your operation spends real time every day deciding how to cut coils against an order book. If that is happening in a spreadsheet, on paper, or in somebody's head, there is margin on the table.

Where LineSight fits best

Flat-rolled service centers running slitting operations. Carbon, coated, stainless, aluminum. The material matters less than the decision being made.

Operations where planning is a bottleneck. If your planner is the constraint on how much volume you can take, or if plans get rebuilt every time something changes on the floor, that is the pain LineSight removes.

Service centers with an ERP already in place. LineSight reads from your existing system rather than replacing it, so the data needs somewhere to live. Most of our customers run a metals-specific ERP, but the integration is built per customer either way.

Toll processors and captive operations both work. So do shops that do a mix of service center work and light manufacturing.

Size is less of a factor than you would think

Our customers range from single-location operations to multi-site companies. A smaller shop often sees impact faster because there are fewer stakeholders and the planner is usually the owner or one step from them. A larger operation sees a bigger absolute number because the tonnage is bigger.

What matters more than headcount is tonnage through the slitter and how varied the order book is. A high-mix operation with lots of different widths has more optimization opportunity than one running the same three jobs every week.

Where LineSight is a weaker fit today

Plate and long product businesses. If you are cutting plate to length or distributing structural, there is no coil to optimize and the math does not apply the same way.

Operations with no ERP or production system at all. We can work with spreadsheets, but if there is no structured record of orders and inventory anywhere, the first project is getting that in place, not optimizing on top of it.

Pure distribution with no processing. If material comes in and goes out without being cut, there is nothing for the optimizer to decide.

Who inside the company usually drives it

Almost always operations. A VP of Operations, a plant manager, a COO, or the owner at smaller shops. These are the people who feel the scrap number and know what planning actually costs in hours.

Finance gets involved when the number gets real, because the savings show up as margin. IT gets involved for the ERP integration, usually briefly.

The person who does not usually drive it is the planner, though they end up being the biggest advocate once it is running, because the tedious part of their job goes away and the judgment part stays.

Not sure if you are a fit?

The fastest way to find out is a conversation about your operation. If it is not a fit, we will say so.