Saturday, July 22, 2006

Production control software intended for SMEs

Production control software products, intended for SMEs of up to 70-80 employees, brings ease of adoption and use, visibility and traceability of production and a competitive pricing policy.
Trakking has just released the latest addition to its range of production control software products 'Trakking Make to Stock and to Order'. Aimed at the one man band through to manufacturing companies with up to 70-80 employees, the emphasis of the product is on ease of adoption and use, visibility and traceability of production and a competitive pricing policy. Unusually for products of this nature, the price for this complete package is displayed on the company's Website under the 'Sales' tab and includes project managing the installation and training.

Preston, UK based company the Attwater Group is one of the first companies to adopt the new product.

Attwater are a leading name in the manufacture of thermosetting composite materials for use in electrical engineering applications.

Their products can be found in a vast range of applications, from pipelines to aeroplanes.

'For years we have been looking for reasonably priced software that allows us to track and control production simply and logically; with Trakking we have found it,' said Attwater production Manager Andy Goode.

'In the past we have had to put up with over-complex, non user friendly, human resource hungry, expensive software.

With Trakking we can put this behind us and we will have full visibility and traceability of production.

We will also free up resources in many areas, such as raising quotes and order processing and eradicate a lot of unnecessary paperwork.' Quality control Manager Dave Swarbrick said; 'During our evaluation of Trakking one area that we concentrated on was the recording of quality information.

Trakking gives us the ability to record manufacturing parameters, such as dimensions and tolerances, within the system.

This will prove very useful for our British Aerospace and ISO audits.' Steven Eland, IT Manager said: 'From the onset, Trakking's approach to their product was different.

We evaluated many alternative products and were faced with pages of glossy brochures and high pressure sales.

From Trakking we received a simple brochure and a free demo disk and from this we saw that the whole system was logical and easy to understand.' Eland continued: 'From an IT perspective the software doesn't need any specialist/expensive database or backup software to run.

User security is easy to configure, and users can only see screens relevant to them.

This reduces mistakes and the amount of training that the operators need.

The integrated help files are simple and easy to follow and written from the perspective of an end user.

This helps to reduce the time that I spend answering simple questions.' The focus of the Trakking development team, using their background in both the educational and engineering sectors, has been to produce the clearest and most straightforward production control program on the market and to make implementation quick and easy and the software accessible for all users.

Trakking have also devised an innovative way to help customers evaluate the software.

A 30 day free trial can be requested through the website.

The trial CD contains the full product, a demo database and a 'Guided Walkthrough', which helps users to explore the program's full functionality without the need for on-site demonstrations and sales visits.

Alternatively customers can simply read or download from the website the product 'Overview' to understand and appreciate the scope of the product.'