Born from a manufacturing company in 2011 to meet internal needs, Visual Knowledge Share Ltd. (VKS) has rapidly grown into an innovative software provider serving customers in over 30 countries.

​In the early 70s CMP AMS was founded, a local sheet metal fabrication shop just outside of the bustling, multilingual hub Montreal. A family run business that grew from one facility and a handful of employees, to over 400 employees and operations in both Chateauguay, QC, and Binghamton, NY.

​Dealing with ever-changing demands, building complex products for a wide array of industries, CMP learned early on how challenging their operations could be. With some jobs repeating every week, and others only every 6 months it became very difficult to remain effective. How do the operators remember the set-up information for that job, on that machine? How do they output high levels of productivity on a complex assembly that they may never have seen before? How do you know what quality standards are required when you may process dozens of different jobs for different customers, in the same day? The answer was Digital Work Instructions.

​Designed to be intuitive and easy to use, VKS was developed through a talented team of software engineers to help CMP remain world class. Originally implemented in 2012, their solution helped CMP achieve a 20% gain in productivity across their shop, and an impressive reduction in external defects.