Shop Management Tools Speed Job-Shop Performance and Productivity

摘要

In an interview, Richard Henning, president, Henning Industrial Software Inc, talked about shop management software solutions for manufacturing. When first introduced, manufacturing software systems only ran on very expensive mainframe or minicomputers. This meant that these early systems were only available to larger manufacturers because of the high cost of hardware, software, and implementation. From then to the present, PC-based software systems have been developed that are less costly and typically smaller in scope. These systems primarily have targeted second and third-tier manufacturers, job shops, and mixed-mode discrete manufacturers that make to stock and/or make to order. These PC-based enterprise resource planning solutions are now commonly referred to as shop management or job shop management software systems. Shop management software systems offer a range of specialized tools to help manage and monitor the production process. Show less