Products

SCI and SCV
Supply Chain Integrator (SCI) and Supply Chain Visibility (SCV) provide a collaborative decision support environment for managing an organization's entire supply chain. SCI integrates information from all execution and planning systems in the supply chain, enabling information systems departments to integrate disparate and distributed systems. SCV provides intelligent visibility into that information, allowing each decision maker within an organization to view the total supply chain and collaborate on decisions about the flow of materials.

Numetrix Ltd.
655 Bay Street
Suite 1200
Toronto, Ont. M5G 2K4
Canada
(416) 979-7700
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Resonance
Resonance 3.2 finite scheduling software features a new Delivery Date Quotation Module which allows delivery date quotations to be made while the customer is still on the phone, and reserves a slot of capacity against approved orders. By identifying shipping constraints, this new module isolates only the data elements affecting delivery. Resonance 3.2 also provides a constraint-based MPS module that provides planners with an interactive tool that analyzes changes and levels out the loads in the modified build schedule.

Thru-Put Technologies
2 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95113
(408) 920-9711
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MOOPI
MOOPI 5.0, a French acronym for Industrial Production Optimization and Scheduling Method, is an intelligent system solution for manufacturing synchronization: the simultaneous coordination and timing of all production resources to match market demand. MOOPI bridges the gap between ERP (enterprise resource planning) and MES (manufacturing execution systems) or shop floor management systems, making it the central gateway for manufacturing synchronization. MOOPI integrates with existing manufacturing systems or operates as a stand-alone solution. Version 5.0 enhancements include a faster scheduler for improved execution scenario delivery, and increased flexibility for customer-driven production through dynamic buffering. It is able to consider both materials and all plant resources in creating a constraints-based schedule.

Berclain USA Ltd.
1300 East Woodfield Road
Suite 200
Schaumburg, IL 60173
(708) 240-1260
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R/3
R/3 3.0 client/server-based manufacturing modules address a broad range of processes for discrete, repetitive and process manufacturing. The new release includes new capabilities for integrating manufacturing operations with sales and distribution, financial accounting and human resources information systems via EDI and enhanced business workflow methods that support integrated, enterprise-wide supply chain management for industrial companies. Electronic Kanban, a repetitive manufacturing production control technique, is now supported within R/3 3.0 to promote enterprise resource planning (ERP) and integrated supply chain management initiatives within organizations.

SAP America Inc.
701 Lee Road
Suite 200
Wayne, PA 19087
(610) 725-4500
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G2-@aGlance Bridge
The G2-@aGlance Bridge links G2, an object-oriented environment for building and delivering real-time systems, with @aGlance/IT, a middleware product from Intuitive Technology Corp. The Bridge provides seamless access to a new range of data historians, supervisory control systems, distributed control systems, man-machine interface software, and manufacturing execution systems. When software bridges link G2 applications to other systems, it can monitor, control, diagnose and schedule on-line operations in real-time. G2 can also provide operators with expert advice to help them focus on critical situations and let them make more well-informed decisions.

Gensym Corp.
125 CambridgePark Drive
Cambridge, MA 02140
(617) 547-2500
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SFDM
Shop Floor Data Manager (SFDM), a manufacturing execution system (MES), now runs on Sun Microsystems' Solaris/SPARC computing platform. The Solaris/SPARC platform will provide a scaleable, distributed computing environment for a broad range of strategic manufacturing systems implementations. SFDM is designed to reduce production cycle-times and costs, to improve time-to-market, and to increase data accuracy and enterprise-wide information sharing for decision support.

Industrial Computer Corp.
5871 Glenridge Drive
Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30328
(404) 255-8336
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Infoflo
Infoflo 8.0 is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software system for discrete, mixed-mode manufacturers. The new release features the Laptop Quotation System, which incorporates an enhanced release of Interactive's intelligent, rules-base Product Configurator. This system helps improve responsiveness to customer requirements by allowing in-the-field configuration and costing of complex products, feeding production with custom-engineered specifications. Infoflo 8.0 also includes Distribution Requirements Planning and Multi-Plant Planning modules.

Interactive Group Inc.
2 Burlington Woods Drive
Burlington, MA 01803
(617) 273-2920
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ProductManager
The ProductManager Director Series (ProductManager Version 3) enables manufacturers to streamline the design and manufacturing process while helping to reduce both design costs and cycle times. It acts as a data vault, provides a single source of product information, and offers users access to the most current data, wherever the data resides. ProductManager provides a scaleable and integrated technology that spans enterprise business processes and allows for effective definition, storage and management of all product and process data for an entire product life cycle. It can connect multiple platforms, production systems and CAD tools in a seamless system environment.

IBM Corp.
1133 Westchester Avenue
White Plains, NY 10604
(914) 642-5463.

MS/X and TS/X
Tyecin Production Planners are capable of automating the complex production planning process in wafer fabs, assembly and test operations. MS/X Planner features finite capacity production planning for wafer fabrication, while TS/X Planner is for microelectronics assembly and test. Both Production Planners are software systems for simultaneously optimizing manufacturing resources, materials requirements and the order fulfillment process. They provide capacity feasibility production plans, allocate finished goods and WIP to prioritized orders, determine required start quantities and optimum start schedules, and identify equipment, materials and labor constraints.

Tyecin Systems Inc.
4 Main Street
Los Altos, CA 94022
(415) 949-8501
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System 21
System 21 Manufacturing is designed to support the diverse needs of both the repetitive production and process industry sectors. It supports the fundamental business activities of planning, scheduling, reporting, controlling and measurement. The system is designed around a totally integrated database, which provides management information on all aspects of manufacturing activity. System 21 Manufacturing software lets the user plan, produce and cost co-products and by-products so that the product mix and costing can be optimized.

JBA International
161 Gaither Drive
Suite 200
Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
(609) 231-9400
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