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<div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
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<div>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:</div>
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<li>Database for storing names, credentials and affiliations of current and past lab members</li><li>Database for tracking of lab user invoices and balances owed per PI (accounts receivable)</li><li>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.</li></ol>
<div>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.</div>
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<div>Thank you very much for any insights or recommendations.</div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
<div>Vito</div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" style="font-size: 14px; "><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Vito Logiudice </font>P.<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Eng.</font></font></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px; ">Director of Operations, Quantum NanoFab</font></font></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px; ">University of Waterloo</font></font></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px; ">Lazaridis QNC 1207</font></font></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px; ">200 University Avenue West</font></font></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px; ">Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1</font></font></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px; ">Tel.: (519) 888-4567 ext. 38703</font></font></font></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 14px; ">Email: <a href="mailto:vito.logiudice@uwaterloo.ca">vito.logiudice@uwaterloo.ca</a></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Website: </font></font></font></span><a href="https://fab.qnc.uwaterloo.ca">https://fab.qnc.uwaterloo.ca</a></div>
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