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Advanced Manufacturing |
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Advanced Manufacturing
includes all of the functionality of the Light
Manufacturing/Advanced Kitting module, as well as
enhanced work orders, and labor and production
reporting, which are essential requirements for
assembly, electronics, metal fabrication and
machine/equipment manufacturing. The system provides
shop floor visibility to your entire enterprise,
including which employees are currently on the clock
in any production facility. With a few mouse-clicks,
customer service can quickly view the status of a
customer order without having to interrupt the shop
supervisor. The GAAP-compliant job costing system
helps you identify which manufactured items are
generating the most profit and which are costing you
money. You will be able to spot production
bottlenecks and respond in real-time to last-minute
engineering changes and high-priority orders.
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Advanced Planning and Scheduling |
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Do you have problems
scheduling production? Are orders late because
someone forgot to schedule an operation? Did you
ever lose a good customer because production fell
behind their required deadline? MAS 500 includes one
of the most powerful and easy-to-use Advanced
Planning and Scheduling systems available today. The
industry-standard scheduling rules automatically
schedule production based on advanced algorithms and
mathematical calculations. MAS 500 includes a
drag-and-drop schedule board that takes into
consideration real-world concerns. The schedule
board displays all system-generated operation
schedules, but it allows supervisors or production
scheduling personnel to tweak the schedule to fit in
high-priority orders or to move scheduled operations
to a different machine when another breaks down.
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Engineering Change Management |
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Quality control is one
of the most important business concerns for
manufacturers. MAS 500 can help you control
production costs by tracking constantly changing
labor operations and material items as new items are
developed and manufacturing processes are
streamlined using newer equipment. Consequently, it
is more important than ever before to standardize
your engineering change management process. MAS 500
integrates Engineering Change Management (ECM) with
e-mail notifications providing instant visibility
and standardized approval methods for routing and
bill of material changes. Any change made to an ECM-controlled
routing and bill of material is cycled via e-mail to
members of an approval group. Engineering Change
Management is crucial to quality control and is a
requirement for ISO and QS certification.
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Estimating |
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Do you know if a new
part is going to make you money or cost you money?
Do you lose business to your competitors because
your estimates are too high? MAS 500 provides
detailed estimating capabilities to help you
increase business while improving your bottom line.
Estimates provide more than an educated guess
regarding total cost of production because they
include materials, outside processing and labor, as
well as overhead rates, and one-time charges for
tooling and engineering. Estimates can be converted
to a customer quote or directly into a sales order
with a simple mouse-click.
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Engineering Change Management |
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Quality control is one
of the most important business concerns for
manufacturers. MAS 500 can help you control
production costs by tracking constantly changing
labor operations and material items as new items are
developed and manufacturing processes are
streamlined using newer equipment. Consequently, it
is more important than ever before to standardize
your engineering change management process. MAS 500
integrates Engineering Change Management (ECM) with
e-mail notifications providing instant visibility
and standardized approval methods for routing and
bill of material changes. Any change made to an ECM-controlled
routing and bill of material is cycled via e-mail to
members of an approval group. Engineering Change
Management is crucial to quality control and is a
requirement for ISO and QS certification.
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Light Manufacturing/Advanced
Kitting |
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Light
Manufacturing/Advanced Kitting is the perfect
product to help you manage production and kit
assembly without complicated labor transactions or
material issues. The streamlined manufacturing
system integrates with other optional MAS 500
manufacturing modules and allows distributors,
assemble-to-order industries, and other light
manufacturers to concentrate on other critical
business issues without getting tied up in complex
manufacturing processes. Traditional manufacturers
may need the Advanced Manufacturing module.
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Material Requirements Planning (MRP) |
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Understanding material
and distribution requirements across the enterprise
without advanced planning tools is impossible. MAS
500 uses historical data and advanced replenishment
formulas to help you more easily understand current
and future material and distribution requirements,
and how they will affect your business. MAS 500
provides single-screen planning that provides
up-to-date item statistics, including on-hand
quantities, current purchase orders, work orders,
transfer orders and other elements that affect
planning decisions. The planning activity provides
insightful information to help you make purchasing
and production scheduling decisions based on
industry-standard practices and flexible, real-life
circumstances.
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Product Configurator |
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The Product
Configurator module was designed for use in either
distribution or manufacturing environments. The
rules-based Product Configurator configures sales
orders and routings/bills of material for a finished
part based on a variety of features or functions.
Customer service personnel benefit from an
easy-to-use interface for quick feature/option
selection of configured parts, and integration with
Sales Order entry. New items can be created on the
fly using customized item masks, new long and short
item descriptions, and other options. The Product
Configurator also builds the item cost and suggested
price. The advanced Product Configurator is easy to
setup and maintain. Popular configurations are saved
and reused as standard parts.
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Project Management for
Manufacturers |
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Do you manage
engineering or prototype production projects? Do you
install or service the products you manufacture? If
so, the MAS 500 Project Management solution can keep
all of your project managers informed and equip them
with the tools they need to profitably manage these
projects.
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Shop Floor Control |
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The Shop Floor Control
system from Best provides real-time labor and
production reporting for online production
visibility throughout the enterprise. The module was
designed for use with bar code and touch-screen
technology, and can run on a terminal or from a
remote handheld Windows CE device. Shop Floor
Control provides access to all of the activities
that generally take place in the shop. Users can log
into or out of operations manually or they can use
the built-in bar coding functionality to scan work
order numbers and work order steps for automatic
logins. The shop floor menu is easily customized to
include virtually any activity, maintenance
function, report or inquiry you need to run your
shop floor.
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