Fax to a friend – Manufacturing Systems
| Rapid, on-time, delivery! Security! Customized for you! |
Putting on my other hat -- the engineering
one (rather than sales) -- let me tell you what the situation really is. If your company
can use Macola or a similar package out of the box (no modifications), do it!
It's a safe decision and quick fix. I offer something different and more substantive -- an opportunity to (re)structure your company's manufacturing by changing the way information is collected and (more importantly) used. Off-the-shelf packages are the opposite. A salesman comes in, does a flashy demo, a quick installation, and disappears. All he did was document the way you presently work and gave you a faster electronic pencil (with a big eraser on which to chew). This may be all you need. Our target market, is different: companies with complex machining decisions and sophisticated assembly options tied to the need to deliver their product rapidly. Most of our clients stress their ability to deliver any product, no matter how complex, in any material, with any finish, in one week ....... and do it profitably. Most out-of-the-box manufacturing systems are glorified accounting systems using a commercial database like Access. (They record history but don't guide you in making cost-effective decisions that will satisfy your customers.) They boast that you can use other commercial programs to write directly into your data (or better yet pay their salesman to write special applications for you). Sooner or later Jack always pops out of this box and you find yourself with a pile of corrupted data. Our approach is different. SIM*plicity will import and export into most commercial programs, but it's a closed database to ensure security. Over the years not one of our clients has ever lost any data. We have clients with more than 50,000 customer orders in their system and within a few seconds they can immediately access the details of any order. Feldman Engineering's benchmark is not the number of systems we sell a year, but our performance in supporting and customizing them to meet each client's exact needs. We encourage our clients to lease SIM*plicity because this creates an on-going relationship which includes full support and continuing upgrades Please give me a call if you need more information. If you must move on this immediately, my advice is to come down and visit some local systems. At no charge we can then spend a day or two developing a workable database for your products so you can see exactly how a good system will function. You won't hurt my feelings if you decide to go with off-the-shelf software, but be careful that you don't spend a small fortune customizing it. Keep in touch and let me know what's happening. |
Manufacturing business software to help your company prosper:
Complete MRP / ERP software solutions customized for your exact needs
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SIM*plicity tutorials:
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| Features that help your company | Examples from SIM*plicity | Discussion and Features |
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| Customer Details: shipping information, history, etc. |
The utmost in options and feature controls. Automatic pricing with
more than 400 variables (size, color, add-on's etc.) Simple to set-up and easy to use.
More than an "Order Configurator":
these variables interact with dynamic (parametric) bills of materials to create complete manufacturing
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| Item Details |
Options to enter and display product information.
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| Order Entry Tools |
Because we automatically transfer all
pricing variables and "engineering limits" to Order
Entry, SIM*plicity eliminates the typical delay for orders to first go to
Engineering and Pricing prior to Order Entry.
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| Batch Order Entry |
Input Customer Order details directly
from Excel.
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| Order-Project Costing |
Display actual costs during Order Entry
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Graphics display with real-time visibility of all in-process orders. | |
| Product Entry Instructions |
Guidance to the operator in entering complex items .
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| New Product Entry |
Add new customers and products on the fly.
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| Zip and Postal Code Tutorial |
Factors in entering address data for uniformity and to ensure automatic freight calculation
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| Sales Discounts and Commissions |
Information on entering discounts and sales commissions.
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| SPEED-UP |
Tips to increase order entry productivity.
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Invoice Details - Setting Variables
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Variables for printing (and exporting to
accounting software) invoices
Order Entry variables for display and printing |
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| Deposits and Payments |
Record and display deposits and partial payments
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| MRP2/ERP Planning and Shop Floor Control | Advance
Plan
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Customer and factory (internal) orders create inventory and labor demand for specific days. SIM*plicity schedules individual machines within each work station/cell and generates material requisitions.
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Planners can control and balance workload at every machine. | |
| Production Planner/Scheduler | Shifting production (date or workcenter) automatically updates all related processes. Graphics displays with drill-down" information effectively links Planning to Shop Floor Control. | |
| MRP2/ERP Tutorial |
Workstation Control allows supervisors to fine tune schedules and report production.
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| Purchasing and Inventory Control | Requisition/Purchasing
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New orders automatically updates long-term material plans. Shop floor control module interacts with purchasing to automatically flag needs that won't be met and adjusts schedules accordingly. Buy-out items are purchased as soon as customer order is processed - including automatic pricing of options and features.
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| Inventory Details |
Knowing the materials "on hand" and what they cost is not enough! SIM*plicity calculates the exact date needed, where it should be stored and details of its physical characteristics. |
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| Vendor Information |
Access complete contact information on vendors and their employees. |
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| Purchasing Messages |
Adding Standard and Text Messages to an individual item Requisition or to an entire Purchase Order Tools to record and adjust physical invnetories.
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| Accounting and Cost Control |
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Know the true cost of every item that you build! Automatically calculate the cost of "work -in-process" inventory. Instantly estimate the complete cost of every Order and Quotation. Change an option or feature and the cost is automatically updated! Please also read ABC Cost Control |
| Product Engineering | Bill of Material Flow Chart | Bills of Materials are the core of true manufacturing systems. They link together customer orders, manufacturing instructions with material and labor requirements. Dynamic (parametric) Bills of Material are used for entire families of products eliminating the need at most companies for 90% of individual Bills of Material. However, Static (Conventional) Bills of Material are still valuable and our system incorporates them with a full range of Options and Features |
| Plan and Perform | Project Takeoff | Estimate and control complex projects. |
| Sales
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Sales by Customer and Product Line | Cost of Goods Sold report for every order. Volume and margin reports for each sales rep. For each customer select default discount programs, special product discounts and choose from multiple selling companies (OEM, etc.) |
| SUPPORT |
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Training, customization and 24/7 real-time support by the developers of this software. A commitment to excellence - today, tomorrow and for the past 30 years. |