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Produces Far More Accurate and Rapid Work Planning
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Supplies extensive and rapid workplace
analysis Capability
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Superior Cost Estimating with full documentation
and accuracy |
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Unexcelled Methods Engineering, Setup
Planning, Tool Planning |
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Improved materials management with reduced
handling costs |
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Increased Throughput with improved quality
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Ease of Use in Operation with interactive
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Produces accurate methods information
for the entire manufacturing
process |
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Reduces the need for large engineering
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Greatly improves Operational Control |
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Our MCIE III PLUS software and MCIE DATAMANAGER
are completely integrated because they were written together so that
sorts can be performed on any of the manufacturing parameters in the
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Our users are freed from the constraints
that many databases attach to min-max record size, storage file size,
number of data types which can be accessed, number of records stored,
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All information entered into the DATAMANAGER
system is stored, and on-record at all times, ready for the industrial
engineer to call upon it using the various MCIE data commands. Optionally,
temporary files can be created which allow for testing of various
What-If manufacturing simulations without affecting the accepted data
already on the host unit. Only when data has been finalized does it
need to be stored permanently.
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SPECIAL MANUFACTURING ALGORITHMS ALLOW
ACCURATE SIMULATION OF THE MANUFACTURING WORK PROCESS
MI Systems' software is unique in the manufacturing
industry in that special algorithms allow the simulation of any
manufacturing operation before the fact to an accuracy of three
percent. By just describing the work actions in simple English.
With this capability, the industrial engineer can see the effect
of any type of proposed plan to build a new product or modify an
existing one, including the new cost and time associated with the
manufacture of the product, using methods that are easily understood
by the shop floor personnel.
No one else in the software industry has the ability
to simulate the manufacturing process with such accuracy and with
generative algorithms. In fact, with MI Systems' integrated CAD
workplace analysis system, a planner can design a new product, define
the parts, design a new facility or manufacturing work place to
build the product and our software automatically computes times
and costs associated with the manufacture of this particular product
in this new facility — before the fact, in a simulated plant,
with unexcelled accuracy, and without requiring on-site measurements
or having the specific machinery in place.
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MI SYSTEMS' INTEGRATED MCIE DATAMANAGER
ALLOWS DYNAMIC WORK PLANNING AND CONTROL WITHOUT EXTENSIVE INPUT OR
MANUAL PREPARATION
MI Systems' DATAMANAGER is unique in the software
industry. Self- contained, with virtually unlimited data record
creation, storage (within the capacity of the computer), and compact
informational data compression, DATAMANAGER is one of the most extensively
time-tested and time-proven in the software industry. Unlike some
systems which need external database managers to keep track of system
data, and which are thus limited to the functionality of those data
managers, MCIE Series Systems use their own working database which
has been developed and tailored to fit the needs of manufacturers
over the course of its over two-decades long development history
and is integrated with MI Systems' extensive manufacturing software
modules. Even before the first Apollo rockets went into space, MI
Systems was developing one of the first self-contained manufacturing
systems. Our database is bi-directional — records can be accessed,
edited and stored all within our system. File organization is done
internally and automatically.
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CIM SOFTWARE CONTAINS ADVANCED GROUP TECHNOLOGY
PROGRAMS
Organized input and output enables the user to
do computer-aided process planning, and MI Systems' integrated group
technology/tree processor system creates a Process Planning System
which is both interactive and efficient, as well as accurate. Group
technology has been an integral part of MI Systems' programs since
the mid-seventies, and today its capability is one of the most up-to-date
in the industry because it allows the user to enter group elements
right from the very first part operation to the completed product.
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MANUFACTURING SOFTWARE INTEGRATES WITH
ALL MAJOR CAD SYSTEMS
Another feature of MI Systems' manufacturing software
is that it interfaces bi-directionally with all major Computer-Aided
Design (CAD) programs such as CADAM, Intergraph, and AutoCad. This
integrated CAD capability allows graphic simulation of a variety
of processes, and also gives the user the ability to work out design
problems on-screen. MCIE Series manufacturing data is automatically
created from this graphic data.
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BUILT-IN HELP SYSTEM GIVES INTEGRATED
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
MI Systems' extensive System of Help-screens is
one of the largest and most comprehensive in the industry. It is
transparent and multilevel with pop-up windows in full color and
can be called interactively at any time at the individual work station,
without affecting system operation. There is no need to terminate
or break during system operation with MI Systems' UniPrompt Help
System. Help is only keystrokes and seconds away! MI Systems utilizes
the most recent hardware developments to reduce storage space for
its systems, and to maximize the operational processing speed on
any one of the over thirty different operating systems and types
of computers which use our software.
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SERVING THE NEEDS OF MANUFACTURERS
MI Systems has manufacturing software built by
manufacturing experts which covers the broad needs of manufacturers
for flexible planning tools, accurate information, timely control
actions and optimal build procedures. MI Systems software is extensive
and comprehensive, covering all the Manufacturer's needs to define
and manufacture a product. MI Systems engineers and data processors
are there to support the Manufacturer as needed. MI Systems' R&D
programs offer the Manufacturer the latest in high-tech advances
so that the Manufacturer's manufacturing systems are always the
best available. Our implementation services give the Manufacturer
experienced applications specialists when and where the Manufacturer
needs them.
MI Systems' software has the most advanced manufacturing
planning and control software on the market. With systems that can
accurately simulate all aspects of the build process before the
fact and can be used to control operations and increase throughput
while minimizing associated costs. This software has no comparable
product in the marketplace. The software has been proven in more
than 650 installations nationwide with more than 1,800 individual
users, in more than 60 different types of industry. The MI Systems
manufacturing software is in such diverse Fortune 1,000 companies
as 3M, TRW, Cummins Engine, Rubbermaid, Clark Equipment, Emerson
Electric, Black & Decker, Sikorsky, General Motors and many
other leading firms. The market for CAM software is now in the initial
stages of a growth cycle similar to that achieved by CAD starting
some eleven years ago.
MI Systems Software Features:
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Both User Specific and User Friendly
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Supported by Manufacturing experts
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Fully integrated modular software
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Expandable Database with Algorithmic
File Structure and Mass Data Maintenance and Data Processing
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Planning is both generative and variant
Database includes group technology and rule-based mass Data Maintenance
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Operates on most computer hardware platforms
that support ANS COBOL including IBM, HP, DEC VAX, TI DG,Prime, Unisys
and others.
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Provides efficient Generative and "Variant"
computer-aided process planning
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Automatic data transfer capability with
other available CAM systems
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Uses the latest Group Technology techniques
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Integrates BI-directionally with the top
36 CAD systems
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