New ERP Company is Established
Adion Systems (Vancouver, BC) has established ProShop USA, Inc. (Bellingham, WA) as a U.S. subsidiary to facilitate sales and support of their manufacturing enterprise software to their growing U.S. customer base. Their software is a comprehensive web-based, paperless shop management system engineered to benefit small-to-medium sized manufacturers. It provides an integrated, comprehensive set of modules for managing a shop’s ERP (enterprise resource planning) operations, as well as MES (manufacturing execution system) and QMS (quality management system) functions. It earned a June 2018 Top “Frontrunner” Ranking from the consulting, research and software evaluation firm Software Advice.
“Most conventional ERP systems are accounting-based, with minimal functionality for managing and controlling the shop floor environment. On the other hand, systems focused on manufacturing monitoring do not provide the full scope of information needed to guide optimal business strategies. This software represents a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem or ERP 4.0,” explained Paul Van Metre, the co-founder and vice president of sales of Adion Systems and president of ProShop USA. “It enables smaller shops to easily manage their business with a big data, manufacturing-analytics approach, including shop floor monitoring of part quality inspection, work instructions and tool management.”
He continued, “This software can often replace five to six separate software packages that may not communicate well with each other, use of it can positively impact profitability and throughput.” Examples include moving overhead labor to billable functions, opening capabilities for more complicated jobs, improving on-time delivery performance and accurately estimating profit margins on each project. Its implementation enables more informed and conscious choices surrounding all business decisions.
