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The project team at Dyson was on the look out for products to improve their
production workflow methods. Marc Brown a senior project manager at Dyson
explains the situation.
"We were looking at many methods to assist the production of our ever
expanding range of household appliances and cleaners. One of the main issues
we had was producing labels, production documents and works orders based on
many different types of criteria. On some occasions we need a label, on
others we need a full works order document, it all depends what is on the
production line at that moment and whether we are just handling a part, a
sub assembly made by us, a sub assembly made by someone else or the
manufacture of a finished product".
Marc continues, "One of the major
problems we had was sourcing a product that could conditionally decide what
format of document or label was required and how many should be produced,
based on the criteria on one of a number of documents, or data conditions
existing on our AS400 JBA host. All of which had to be achieved in one
flowing motion without operator intervention".
FDI were able to provide Dyson with a product that fulfilled all their
criteria, producing a wide variety of production labels and works order
documents on local laser printers and Zebra 4000 barcode thermal printers.
ODBC Query
Using
SabreFDI’s powerful ODBC query system, it interactively produces all the
required information at the point and time of need. The job consolidation
feature also allows the production of a single works order document from
three separate documents, including calculations on the page and the
conditional addition of other data from the JBA AS400 host.
Marc says in conclusion "Dyson have been very impressed with the qualities
and capability of the SabreFDI’ I product. Although there are other products
around that at first sight seemed to fit the bill, none could demonstrate
the capability and flexibility that SabreFDI’ provides".
Overall the Dyson team was impressed with Sabre and FDI demonstrable
propensity towards innovation. Excellence and Innovation are watchwords at
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