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We produce the highest quality band instruments in the world but we were not particularly sophisticated when it came to using software to monitor their assembly. We feared a misstep would reduce our inventory at the price of our delivery performance. We sought a scaleable system one that would allow us to start with a few fundamental controls and expand as our knowledge ... grew.  The Windows platform of WinMAGI really made our jobs easier both in functionality and performance.

The  product is a 3D-display system.  It displays graphical images into a 180-degree field of view.  The user sits halfway into a hemispherical dome and the surrounding image provides the immersive sensation of being part of the scene being projected.  It can be used for simulation training applications.  The military uses it for various kinds of flight simulation and combat trainingthe uses are restricted only by the users imagination. 

"I was structuring the manufacturing process into a make-to-stock environment so we needed a powerful forecasting/master production scheduling function.  Shipping from stock would provide the customer with a short leadtime but I also wanted a fairly short manufacturing leadtime to replenish the stocking levels.  This meant we needed to stock long leadtime components.  So we needed a powerful inventory management function to compliment the forecasting/MPS capability.  Our other requirements purchasing, sales order entry, MRP, engineering, and scheduling were nothing extraordinary from a systems perspective.  But most importantly, the system had to be affordable and from a company we could trust. I had worked with big, mainframe software packages selling for hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars, requiring battalions of consultants and leagues of resources to maintain and manage the data.  Elumens could not even afford the training costs for a package like that.  Besides, such software is an anachronism; a throwback to the days of big mainframe computers and big MIS staffs.  Ive been doing this sort of thing for a few decades and know that todays PC networks are more powerful than mainframes were just a few years ago.  I know of nothing that an expensive mainframe system can do that a modestly priced PC network system cannot do except guarantee full employment for consultants and IT professionals unwilling to let go of the old ways.  Of course, not all PC based ERP systems are equal.  I could not afford a false step that could throw the company into chaos.  Chaos costs money.  When your company does not have deep pockets, the window of opportunity for profit will slam shut quickly unless systems come up chaos free.  My solution was WinMAGI software by MAGI. "

"We still have over 100,000 parts in the database and many thousands may have a requirement at any given time.  We are fortunate that, even with this many part numbers to process, WinMAGIs MRP runs in about thirty minutes a day.  We order purchased components on time now the expensive expediting has been eliminated except when human error causes chaos.  But that will always happen and WinMAGI helps us react to it.  The pre-WinMAGI days seem like a lifetime ago."

Several years ago they purchased a software package developed exclusively for the plastics molding industry.  They were not able to make the software work.  The vendors people spent so much time at the factory that a separate work area had to be set up for them.    The automotive industry is unforgiving of late shipments and the company was getting too largeand the product line too complexto manage without software.  They began looking for a replacement.

They discovered that, even though WinMAGI was not developed exclusively for the plastic molding industry, it had more plastic molding features than their old software.  Both packages expressed material requirements in tiny fractions.  Both accommodated flash, runners, and regrind.  And both could report scrap by mold.  But only WinMAGI could report scrap by cavity within the mold and explain to factory people why that is important.

WinMAGI performed all the functions that the earlier software promised to perform but could not.  And it was stable.  After the initial training of a few key employees, inventory was brought under control.