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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu
[mailto:labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mac Hathaway<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 15, 2016 1:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [labnetwork] Recommendations for commercially available ERP-type SW packages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hey All,<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Mac <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman , serif","serif"">Mac Hathaway</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman , serif","serif"">Senior Process and Systems Engineer</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman , serif","serif"">Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman , serif","serif"">11 Oxford St.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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On 4/12/2016 12:38 PM, Morrison, Richard H., Jr. wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We use a program called MAPCON to track equipment downtime and PM schedules.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">For operations we are going to implement i-Lab Solutions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Principal Member of the Technical Staff</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">555 Technology Square</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu">labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu">mailto:labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Vito Logiudice<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 11, 2016 4:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu">labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [labnetwork] Recommendations for commercially available ERP-type SW packages</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">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:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Database for storing names, credentials and affiliations of current and past lab members</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Database for tracking of lab user invoices and balances owed per PI (accounts receivable)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">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.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thank you very much for any insights or recommendations.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Vito</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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