| Softaire
Computer Services
believes there is a Manufacturing Industry Software
"Myth" in contrast to what we embrace as "the
technology street truth". This truth is simply that "the
software industry's technology is far advanced beyond the practical,
functional needs of the end user for whom software was
designed." |
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Going forward, what this means to our industry sector is that small
manufacturers simply cannot absorb the implementation of the
advanced software modules and functions available from most software
authors. Nor, in our opinion, do they need such advanced software
function to achieve practical business pay-back objectives. What is
needed instead is the practical and maximum use of the basic and
most productive "pay-back" integrated manufacturing
software modules in the context of industry-accepted manufacturing
philosophy and system design espoused for over 40 years. This
philosophy still holds true and relevant today, and tomorrow in the
opinion of many, including Softaire Computer Services .
When the typical smaller manufacturer "boils it all down,"
his views of critical Information Technology (IT) software
"pay-backs" revolve around:
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inventory
control and flexibility; |
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basic
production control/planning ability; |
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better
shop floor efficiency; |
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billing/accounting
control; and |
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database
access for responsive customer service, custom reporting and
management analysis of the business. |
No more. No less. Just software that can do these things affordably,
timely, practically, flexibly and with as little implementation
effort and business disruption as possible.
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