News
Spring
2008
New Inventory module for Stemcell's
Anti-body
Calculator.
In 2005 MPV delivered an application for
Stemcell Technologies that computes dispensing volumes and documentation for
Trace Lots. This app has now been extended so it can now auto-issue trace lot
inventory. Managing traceable inventory has always been a challenge in Visual
Mfg ERP. This new extension provides a single window that handles material
requirements, existing transactions, available stock and lot IDs allowing
the user to quickly evaluate and issue materials. By creating a series of
pending transactions the user can easily modify or delete a selection. Even
after a item has been issued the user can delete or
return the transaction with one click.
Fall
2007
Lantec EDC Enhancements
Lantec's Part Creation
application known as "EDC" originally developed by MPV Systems in
2004 received several new powerful features in September that are making their
engineers very happy. The new features extend the Search and TBOM (temporary
BOM) capabilities of the Part Creation system allowing users to search and
navigate across multiple masters and jobs simultaneously. On the
technology side MPV refactored a sizable chuck of the
original code to support the new features that were implemented using OO code.
MPV Systems
Delivers Expert system.
Production management at Stemcell Technologies saw an opportunity
to save their planners significant time by automating a complex and repetitive
inventory issuing algorithm. "Our Trace Lots are extemely
time sensitive and must be distributed across demand in the most efficient way
possible on a weekly basis. This was consuming a large percentage of
planning's time and the decision tree was so complex that errors were
frequent", according to the PM. Using agile development
practices and OO technology, MPV Systems was able to deliver a solution within
3 months. The system reduced the planning task time from 6 hours to less than
20 minutes. The actual logic is parsed in fewer than 10 seconds. The
applications pattern driven object model is also ideally suited for future
extension.
Summer 2007
CWS Industries adds auto labour
ticketing to their NestLINK middleware application
from MPV Systems.
CWS manufactures heavy machinery attachments
made almost entirely from steel plate that is burnt in-house. NestLINK
is their custom integration application that exchanges work order
information and performs transaction processing between Visual Mfg ERP and SigmaNest burn table software. The addition of labour ticketing facilitates the collection of burden costs
for consumables.
Spring 2007
Brunette Industries deploys their advanced inventory reporting
system from MPV Systems to regional offices in
Winter 2007
Stemcell
Technologies rolls out new Web-based budgeting application from MPV
Systems.
Managers in regional offices around the world
and at head office in