Standing in front of a large audience on the National Mall at the 2022 Innovative Housing Showcase, with many state-of-the-art modular and manufactured home prototypes on display, HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge announced, “This may in fact be the future of housing and we are on the cutting edge of making it happen for every single American.” With 61% of Americans unable to afford a traditional stick built home and the US experiencing a nationwide shortage of 7 Million homes this future could not come any sooner.
Offsight customer Skyline Champion (NYSE: SKY), one of the largest homebuilders in North America, is at the forefront of addressing this nationwide crisis. They’ve built a brand new factory to deliver thousands of high quality homes manufactured to the HUD (US Department of Housing and Urban Development) building code standards. They selected Offsight as their go to software for managing all elements of production, factory operations, quality and crucial reporting with third party inspectors for HUD code conformance.
“Skyline Champion is one of the largest homebuilders in North America. We are launching new factories and product lines to meet the rapidly growing need for high quality, cost effective housing. We have adopted Offsight’s industry leading software to manage our end to end production and factory operations and are eager to grow our partnership across the business.”
General Manager
Skyline Champion
Managing Full Enterprise Production in Offsight
As a major homebuilder Skyline Champion has the capacity and demand to manufacture thousands of homes each year. It was crucial that Offsight’s software could be implemented across a large factory workforce. Skyline Champion turned to Offsight’s Production & Quality Tracking feature set to meet their needs. Through this feature set, many operators across multiple factory workstations and production lines can log into Offsights mobile apps. They can then live search for specific products in real time, identify their stage in the production process and complete tasks, access assembly and design documentation and identify immediate quality issues.
Offsight’s Unlimited User Pricing allows large Enterprise manufacturers like Skyline Champion to drive full value from the software. Hundreds of operators, managers and executives can access Offsight inside and outside the factory. They can seamlessly track production progress and product delivery or identify and resolve quality issues. All updates are instant and propagate across all devices and users in real time. Offsight’s software thereby acts as Skyline Champion’s central source of truth and primary platform to manage all production and factory operations.
Reporting HUD Code Conformance Through Offsight
With the US Housing and Urban Development department setting aside Billions in funds each year to help finance development and purchasing of affordable housing, manufactured and modular home builders like Skyline Champion are ramping their production to meet the growing demand. As part of meeting the HUD criteria homebuilders need to manufacture homes complaint with the HUD code of quality, safety and design. In order to manage the complex code requirements across multiple assembly points and stages of their manufacturing workflow Skyline Champion turned to Offsight’s Reporting and Auditing feature set.
Through Offsight’s Management Dashboard, Skyline Champion built custom HUD compliant digital travelers that corresponded with code conformance and verification checks at various stages of assembly. They could then build manufacturing workflows for each of their many product lines, which would allow operators and inspectors on the floor to access the appropriate HUD inspection forms at the correct stage of the manufacturing process. By tracking all HUD conformance from production start to finish, through Offsight, Skyline Champion was able to ensure all their products were built to code.
They could also seamlessly share the HUD conformance reports with their third party inspection partners to streamline audits and completely automate their mandatory daily reporting requirements through Offsight’s Reporting Dashboard.