Manufacturing Solutions

Software solutions specific to industrial/manufacturing
businesses (ex. MES, ERP, BES)

Document Management has evolved from a simple imaging and retrieval system
to a system that can:

• Capture and store content with different document types (ex. MS Word,
  PDF, Excel, HTML, etc.)
• Search/index content within the documents themselves.
• Allow metadata to be manually entered and/or automatically extracted from documents to help searching and indexing
• Version Control: save multiple versions of content over time for review and comparison
• Audit Trail: keeping a read-only record of access, viewing, and changes within the system
• Granular Security: show/hide documents, folders, and functions based on a
  given user’s privileges
• Document Retention Control: determine when a document should be
  re-reviewed/upgraded or destroyed
• Collaboration: providing additional tools (ex. Tasks, Workflow for review and approval, Wikis, Libraries, etc.) to allow multiple people to efficiently collaborate

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ex. Estimating, Scheduling, Forecasting, MRP)
• Job Management Systems (ex. Estimating, Budgeting, Cost Tracking, Billing)
• Manufacturing Execution Systems
• Batch Manufacturing Systems (ex. Recipe Management, Execution, and Reporting)
• Lab Management Systems
• Document Management (ex. Versioning, Approval, Review, Workflows, Retention, Collaboration, Tagging and Searching)
• Quality Systems
• Event-driven Reporting (ex. Production, EPA, Title V, Compliance, Exception)
• Process and Production Alerting (ex. automatic notification of process / product upsets with escalation as email, text message, and/or voice)
• Downtime Analysis Systems (ex. automatic and manual capture of downtime reasons and durations with Pareto and Root Cause analysis)
• Predictive Maintenance (ex. run hours tracking)
• Inventory Management
• Product Genealogy and Lot Tracking
• Overtime Management
• Control System Inteface
• Plant Site Digital Dashboard
• Job Management
• Material Balance and Recycle Accounting
• Environmental Reporting
• Overtime Management
• Vendor Managed Inventory (Remote Inventory Management)
• Demand Forecasting
• Rail Car Tracking
• Manual Remote Data Entry Systems

Although one should consider 3rd party off-the-shelf solutions first, custom software can be cost-justified and provide benefits beyond existing solutions:

• Initial prototype
• Competitive advantage
• Special requirements
• Tight specifications/compliance

We work with our customers to make the best choice for their needs and establish metrics based on their business goals to assure success!