American Trim Paul Pellegrini, Director of IT

www.amtrim.com

Vendors / Environment

American Trim environment:• HP ProLiant DL370 G6• VMware ESXi 5.1• Redhat Linux 5.5• QAD 2010SE (upgrading to 2012SE 04/06)

• Factivity 3.3A-B2• Progress 10.2A03 (upgrading to 10.2B07 04/06)

Factivity & QAD databases are on the same LINUX server; using AI files to keep DB synchronization to a DR site every 15 minutes

Vendors / Environment (Continued)

American Trim environment:• BravePoint• ProStar Software TailorPro• Eagle Consulting & Development• Cyberscience Cyberquery• ACOM Solutions• Trubiquity

Decisions

Discrete v RepetitiveHomegrown v FactivityAutomation v highly clerical

& lack of controls

Brought in QADBrought in Factivity

Decisions Decisions

Start from the beginning

In 2006 we re-implemented Factivity- Schedules electronic- Introduce Controls / Reporting- 100% Terminal Services / Thin Clients

Factivity Environment

Client: - VM Windows 2008 Remote Desktop / Terminal Services

- Loftware Print Server- Primarily Thin Clients (WYSE)- HP LaserJet / Sato M84ProServer:- LINUX / Progress

Scheduling

Shop Floor / Available Work Centers

Shop Floor / Dispatch Viewer

Shop Floor / POD

Sticky Notes

Shop Floor / Keypad

Shop Floor / Keypad

Shop Floor / Keypad

Label Sample 4 x 6”

Label Sample 8.5 x 11”

Shop Floor / POD

Shop Floor / Documents

http://shopfloor/

Summary

• We have 91 seats of Factivity• We have 52 Sato bar code printers• We license 95 Loftware based printers• There are a few Reports used by the shop

floor. We have additional reports that we run from QAD that connect to the Factivity database.

Scripts Synchronizing with QAD

LINUX Daily scripts- fact_sndentbch- fplbatch- fact_pushschbch- fact_mastbch- fact_wosyncall

LINUX Continuous scripts- fact_prodtoqad- cimcontbch- fact_cimerrbch

LINUX periodic scripts- fact_mthdelbch

Questions?

Questions?