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Case study · Manufacturing

Warehouse automation, no jargon.

How a documentary style case study video helped KPI Solutions tell the story of a 5x output increase at LT Apparel, without a word of industry jargon.

Automated warehouse at LT Apparel KPI Solutions and LT Apparel · Warehouse automation, no jargon
Client
KPI Solutions
Industry
Warehouse automation and systems integration
The story
LT Apparel, Dayton, New Jersey
Shoot
One day on location

The situation

For about thirty years, LT Apparel ran a small distribution center in Dayton, New Jersey. The business outgrew it. Everything was manual, printing labels, applying them by hand, scrambling to keep up whenever volume spiked.

They needed to support at least 125,000 units per day during peak season. They couldn't get there.

KPI Solutions spent years redesigning that operation. The results speak for themselves:

150Kunits picked a day during peak, up from 30,000
3xunits per labor hour, more than tripled in a single year
80%fewer chargebacks, roughly
<200associates fulfilling orders, down from over 600

The problem

KPI had made case study videos before. Plenty of them.

What they hadn't found was one their whole audience could actually follow. Technical companies talk like technical companies, and every video ends up packed with industry language that makes sense to people already in the industry and loses everyone else. That's a problem when the people most likely to refer you are the ones newest to the space.

More on how we approach manufacturing video production.

What we did differently

One shoot day on location at LT Apparel. Real interviews with the people who lived the project. No script.

The difference was in the questions. We asked things like "how would you explain this to a fifth grader" and "how would you describe this to someone at a barbecue." That one shift changed everything.

What came out was a conversation, not a presentation.

The finished video has no jargon in it. Anyone can watch it and understand exactly what KPI did and why it mattered, whether they've been in warehouse automation twenty years or twenty minutes.

Automation inside the LT Apparel distribution center

What happened

KPI played the video at their national trade show booth on repeat. Standing ovation. People asked to see it again on the spot.

They sent it to their full email list, roughly 35,000 contacts.

And they came back. Three projects together now.

35Kcontacts on KPI's email list received the film
3projects together, and counting
In their words
“You did an outstanding job on it and really understood how to bring across our strengths.”
Patti Satterfield · KPI Solutions

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Dylan Smith

Dylan Smith is the owner of With A Twist Media in Greensboro, NC. He has been making documentary style video for manufacturers and construction companies across the Triad since 2019.