Lindquist Goes Live With Encompix ETO ERPWritten by Roger Meloy
Located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Lindquist Machine Corporation (LMC) builds custom machines for U.S. and international customers. For over 50 years, LMC has been solving customers' problems in industries such as food, printing, paper, film, construction, and power tools. Unlike many other ETO companies, LMC does not always design its products. Their primary focus is to partner with their customers to build custom machines to their customers' designs. LMC fills a need in marketplace where companies do not have capability or capacity to build their own machines. LNC plan to go live with Encompix in April 2005. Thomas R. Cutler, spokesperson for ETO Institute (www.etoinstitute.org) said, “The ETO Institute recognizes Encompix as clear cut leader in Engineer-to-Order environment. The ability to track rework is so central to ETO process that it is a central quality issue.”
| | Low Cost Material Resource Planning (MRP) Proven Most Effective for Small ManufacturersWritten by Rocky Smolin
Small manufacturers face same challenges as larger manufacturers without financial depth to resolve same issues. The result has been that some of technologies that allow mid-sized and larger manufacturers to achieve efficiencies have been out of reach for smaller manufacturer until now. Rocky Smolin, President of Beach Access Software and maker of E-Z-MRP. Smolin emphasizes that E-Z-MRP, “was designed to be used by people who do not have degrees or certification in manufacturing systems. It requires no on-site training or consultation. And it has cut standard 18-month MRP implementation cycle to as little as 18 days.” The E-Z-MRP package includes a full-featured Bill of Materials processor, plus a material planning and tracking module which tracks all sales orders, forecasts, work orders (planned, firm, and released), purchase orders, shortages, raw materials and finished goods inventories. It also records a complete audit trail on all inventory transactions.
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