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

[Kurt Kupcho]

Facility Online Manager (FOM) is another option.

Kurt

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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
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Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems
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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


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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
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