American Trim Paul Pellegrini Director of IT www

Vendors / Environment American Trim environment: • HP Pro. Liant DL 370 G 6

Vendors / Environment (Continued) American Trim environment: • Brave. Point • Pro. Star Software

Decisions Discrete v Repetitive Homegrown v Factivity Automation v highly clerical & lack of

Start from the beginning In 2006 we re-implemented Factivity - Schedules electronic - Introduce

Factivity Environment Client: - VM Windows 2008 Remote Desktop / Terminal Services - Loftware

Summary • • We have 91 seats of Factivity We have 52 Sato bar

Scripts Synchronizing with QAD LINUX Daily scripts - fact_sndentbch - fplbatch - fact_pushschbch -

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American Trim Paul Pellegrini, Director of IT

www. amtrim. com

Vendors / Environment American Trim environment: • HP Pro. Liant DL 370 G 6 • VMware ESXi 5. 1 • Redhat Linux 5. 5 • QAD 2010 SE (upgrading to 2012 SE 04/06) • Factivity 3. 3 A-B 2 • Progress 10. 2 A 03 (upgrading to 10. 2 B 07 04/06) Factivity & QAD databases are on the same LINUX server; using AI files to keep DB synchronization to a DR site every 15 minutes

Vendors / Environment (Continued) American Trim environment: • Brave. Point • Pro. Star Software Tailor. Pro • Eagle Consulting & Development • Cyberscience Cyberquery • ACOM Solutions • Trubiquity

Decisions Discrete v Repetitive Homegrown v Factivity Automation v highly clerical & lack of controls Brought in QAD Brought in Factivity Decisions

Start from the beginning In 2006 we re-implemented Factivity - Schedules electronic - Introduce Controls / Reporting - 100% Terminal Services / Thin Clients

Factivity Environment Client: - VM Windows 2008 Remote Desktop / Terminal Services - Loftware Print Server - Primarily Thin Clients (WYSE) - HP Laser. Jet / Sato M 84 Pro Server: - LINUX / Progress

Scheduling

Shop Floor / Available Work Centers

Shop Floor / Dispatch Viewer

Shop Floor / POD

Sticky Notes

Shop Floor / Keypad

Label Sample 4 x 6”

Label Sample 8. 5 x 11”

Shop Floor / POD

Shop Floor / Documents

http: //shopfloor/

Summary • • We have 91 seats of Factivity We have 52 Sato bar code printers We license 95 Loftware based printers There a few Reports used by the shop floor. We have additional reports that we run from QAD that connect to the Factivity database.

Scripts Synchronizing with QAD LINUX Daily scripts - fact_sndentbch - fplbatch - fact_pushschbch - fact_mastbch - fact_wosyncall LINUX Continuous scripts - fact_prodtoqad - cimcontbch - fact_cimerrbch LINUX periodic scripts - fact_mthdelbch

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