(FFD Inc.: Knoxville, TN) -- Steel Tool & Engineering, based in Trenton, Michigan, manufactures jet engine parts for the U.S. government and international aviation companies. Founded more than 60 years ago, the company and its 130 employees have built a solid reputation for delivering world-class quality, on time, at competitive prices.

In 2011, Steel Tool & Engineering integrated Sequence Work Instruction software into its own paperless routing system. Now fully unified with 4th Shift, the plant’s material requirements planning (MRP) system that tracks more than 400 part numbers, Sequence simplifies complex manual assemblies and gives Steel Tool & Engineering an easy way to author, review, approve, deploy and validate the work instructions required to build its products.

“Blending Sequence with our own software system was an easy transition,” says Ryan Grosos, Steel Tool & Engineering’s engineering manager. “We had a home-grown, static data management system that made managing revision-control history difficult. It relied on the due diligence of the sketch creators to keep up. Now that happens automatically.”

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