Brochure: Are you connected?

Are your plant floor workers connected to your enterprise information system?

To lower costs and increase productivity, they need to be.

If you’re like most manufacturers, the majority of those making your products are working disconnected from your enterprise information system. Manufacturing data is isolated in plant floor machines, machine control, laboratory information and production monitoring and control systems, and available-to-promise, manufacturing planning and production scheduling areas. The result: Errors. Work being redone. Production lines waiting for material deliveries. Lost inventory. Delayed shipments. Incomplete cost information. And more. If your plant floor isn’t integrated, your ability to plan, control and optimize your business suffers.

The bottom line is that you don’t get the maximum return on ERP investment — and miss the opportunity to improve supply chain management with timely, accurate data about raw material requirements/consumption, production outages and finished product availability. Because the supply chain revolves around manufacturing, accurate production information is critical to achieving the best return on investment in supply chain management.

Due to lack of shared concepts, successful integration takes more than simply copying data from your plant systems into ERP applications. It requires data transformation and coordination of production business processes with defined ERP system practices.

Ausable Solutions™ can help

Ausable Solutions connects people, processes, equipment and data to integrate production operations into your ERP system so that you can access real-time manufacturing information — production, job status, staffing throughout the plant — from anywhere in the world. We help manufacturers improve information processes and transform data to produce more goods more quickly and efficiently, slash production errors and costs, and increase profitability.

Ausable provides a better, faster, more economical solution

We deliver complete solutions, using a proven plant level integration system that connects manufacturing operations to your enterprise information system. Designed with plant employees in mind, and for management’s information needs, our solutions integrate plant operations with your ERP and legacy systems. Ausable empowers employees to use the information they need to do their jobs and collaborate across boundaries. This helps your company prevent errors and waste, reduce costs, trim cycle time, increase capacity, bring new products to market faster, become more responsive to customer and market needs, and increase margins. And, our solutions are very user-friendly so that all employee levels can easily input and access data.

Your IT people will love an Ausable solution, too, because of ease of development, quick implementation, and user-managed maintenance and modification. Features include…

Ausable makes integration easy

We provide one-stop shopping and a single point of responsibility. Ausable Solutions is one of only a few companies that provides everything you need for production operations integration:

• Consultation and design services to identify and document processes
• Design process implementation to match ERP requirements
• Hardware and software component sourcing
• Systems integration
• Installation services
• Support services — training, help desk and field service
• Direct sales and dealer/VAR distribution

Choose a turnkey approach, assign implementation to your IT staff, or let us help with anything in between.

Our systems are so easy to implement and modify that many customers do it themselves. The Ausable integration approach? No worries. No hassle. Just fast, reliable results. (sidebar photos with quotes by functional area within a company)

Employee photos with quotes:

"Real-time information — including production data — from my ERP system gives me consistently accurate, comprehensive numbers for making decisions and setting direction based on reality…"

"Our workers see Ausable’s solution as a tool to help them do their jobs. Their interaction with our information system is tailored to their job tasks. It helps them get the job done easier and faster — without lost time or re-dos…"

"Our shop supervisors receive continuous information so if there’s a problem they can immediately resolve it. The process tracking feature assures that all transactions not accepted by the ERP system are recorded, identified for problem resolution and automatically resubmitted to assure a correct, timely flow of data…"

"Our plant managers maximize production capability, meet numbers and corporate goals. The plants are now a part of our integrated information, improving their ability to collaborate with the rest of the company…"

"Our customer service representatives easily keep customers happy when they have real-time inventory status, production status and on-time delivery. Available-to-promise is no longer a guessing game…"

Seeing is believing

Now you can quickly and easily include production operations in your enterprise information system. Ausable offers practical, proven solutions. Let us show you how we can complement your ERP system to maximize efficiency, produce solid return on your ERP investment and help drive your company to increased profitability. Call 800-950-9732 (outside of U.S.: 1-770-448-6135) or e-mail us at info@ausableinc.com today.