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An inventory system that saved $15,000 a day in its first week, ran in seven locations worldwide, and is still in use, having needed nothing but a recompile to move from Windows 95 to Windows 10.
A printed circuit board manufacturer was over-ordering and over-pulling raw cores, large copper-and-fibreglass sheets, and throwing the excess away. Losses had been running for ten years. Nobody could reconcile what was on the shelves with what the system said.
Every inventory system concentrates on what is in inventory; this one concentrated on where it was, with shelving bar-coded section by section, so stock could be reconciled by sight and by system at once. Built when Amazon still only sold books. Also one of the first RFID tracking systems, and the link between the shop-floor software and the press that fuses the boards.
In its first week it saved the company $15,000 a day in raw materials, a profit lift of over $3 million a month at the business end. The RFID work drew Tyco's attention and they acquired the company; I travelled to their other sites installing the software. It outlived every other program written alongside it and is still in use today.
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Tell me what it does for the business, what it is written in, and what stops when it goes down. I will say plainly whether I can help.
Tell me what it runs on