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Spreadsheets are the right answer for small manufacturers who don't have overqualified developers hanging around and willing to work for below market rate. If
by rectang 6y ago
Spreadsheets are the right answer for small manufacturers who don't have overqualified developers hanging around and willing to work for below market rate.
If at some point the manufacturer gets big enough to outgrow spreadsheets, there are plenty of well established upgrade paths.
- contingencies 6y agoI'd be very interested in what those upgrade paths are. Most of the large established manufacturers I have visited still operate on a de-facto job-shop mentality with either printed job sheets or whiteboards at each station or with each parts batch, occasionally dedicated screens or a mobile job-tracking solution. Experienced machinists I've interviewed recently have cursed the inefficacy of manufacturing management systems provided by major vendors. I read the literature and attend shows, right now the market to me looks like a dogs breakfast of largely vendor-linked but some independent solutions with all the lock-in concerns associated. I am therefore defaulting to NIH and build-from-scratch but keen to hear of others' experience!