[labnetwork] Recommendations for commercially available ERP-type SW packages

[Mac Hathaway]

Hey All,

So, we currently have an in-house system for tracking a variety of 
things, including tool use, various user statistics, system status, and 
billing, as well as managing equipment access and generating reports on 
all of the above.

Since our trusty IT guy departed, we have been looking at iLab and 
Mendix.  Both are fairly comprehensive, and to varying degrees, 
configurable.  Mendix was looking pretty good, as they would allow us to 
quickly modify the interface as needed, and they have a very flexible 
platform.  Their pricing structure is rather expensive, unfortunately.  
iLab will need to put our future mods in a revision queue, rendering 
them rather less flexible, but their product is less expensive.


Mac

Mac Hathaway

Senior Process and Systems Engineer

Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems

11 Oxford St.

Cambridge, MA02138

617-495-9012


On 4/12/2016 12:38 PM, Morrison, Richard H., Jr. wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Here at Draper we use the following:
>
> We use a program called MAPCON to track equipment downtime and PM 
> schedules.
>
> For operations we are going to implement i-Lab Solutions.
>
> Rick
>
> Draper
>
> Principal  Member of the Technical Staff
>
> 555 Technology Square
>
> Cambridge Ma, 02139-3563
>
> www.draper.com
>
> rmorrison at draper.com
>
> W 617-258-3420
>
> C 508-930-3461
>
> *From:*labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu 
> [mailto:labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu] *On Behalf Of *Vito Logiudice
> *Sent:* Monday, April 11, 2016 4:44 PM
> *To:* labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu
> *Subject:* [labnetwork] Recommendations for commercially available 
> ERP-type SW packages
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm reaching out in the hopes that some of you might be able to 
> recommend a reasonably priced and commercially available simplified 
> ERP-type software package that you are perhaps using for your own fab 
> operations. We're looking for something that will be quick and easy to 
> implement and which will allow us to track (via built-in databases 
> which can be queried for report generation) three categories of 
> information:
>
>  1. Database for storing names, credentials and affiliations of
>     current and past lab members
>  2. Database for tracking of lab user invoices and balances owed per
>     PI (accounts receivable)
>  3. Database for detailed tracking of operations costs which are
>     assigned to a specific category of expense (ie., consumables,
>     repairs, spare parts, upgrades, etc.) which are in turn assigned
>     to a specific tool. This would enable the generation of detailed
>     annual cost of operations reports, including total annual cost per
>     tool, which could in turn be used to adjust equipment access rates
>     as needed.
>
> We had initially hoped that our internal IT group could develop a 
> simple platform in house but it appears now that competing interests 
> will keep this from happening.
>
> Thank you very much for any insights or recommendations.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Vito
>
> --
>
> Vito Logiudice  P.Eng.
>
> Director of Operations, Quantum NanoFab
>
> University of Waterloo
>
> Lazaridis QNC 1207
>
> 200 University Avenue West
>
> Waterloo, ON           Canada N2L 3G1
>
> Tel.: (519) 888-4567  ext. 38703
>
> Email: vito.logiudice at uwaterloo.ca <mailto:vito.logiudice at uwaterloo.ca>
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