Paradigm ERP/MES
The world's most advanced ERP software for the printed circuit board (PCB) industry just got even better - more flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use.
Challenges
Manufacturers today are feeling the full thrust of global competition. Market demand for more sophisticated product offerings is driving complexity and variety, subjecting delivery times and cost structures to constant change, while making it increasingly difficult to maintain a competitive edge. How can manufacturers stay flexible, agile and profitable?
Solution
Paradigm provides intelligent tools for the intelligent electronics manufacturer. It unleashes productivity and profitability for both quick-turn prototype and high-volume, multi-plant manufacturers.
Paradigm ensures a sustainable competitive advantage by increasing efficiency, improving quality, slashing cycle times, identifying and reducing costs, cutting inventories, improving purchasing efficiency, and more effectively deploying productive assets, personnel, and other resources. The entire Paradigm system is scalable, making it suitable for emerging companies, as well as larger, multi-plant operations.
Benefits
We listen closely to our customers' needs. Paradigm includes many sought-after features, such as:
- Offering greater reporting capabilities for both shop floor users and managers, resulting in the ability to make informed decisions faster and better
- Improving scheduling, on-time delivery, asset utilization, and smoother manufacturing execution by making shop floor information available when and where needed
- Enhancing communication and customer satisfaction by allowing users to update their clients with built-in e-mail
- Allowing agile manufacturing with greater flexibility in sub-assembly management
- Providing greater flexibility with part number control to address the growing outsourcing trend
- Streamlining operations through full quote-to-ship capabilities and with a best-in-practice built-in workflow. The entire manufacturing operation can be synchronized with a single, powerful software solution. Designed for quick installation, Paradigm is easy to use, up and running in minimal time, and regularly delivers the quickest return on investment in the industry.
Capabilities
A set of real-time, integrated software modules provides all of the tools required to manage the challenging engineer-to-order requirements of today's manufacturers. The core functions of Paradigm provide an integrated set of tools for sales management, material management, pre-production engineering, and production management.
Additional functionality is available for cost accounting, statistical process control, cycle time performance, financial accounting, sales forecasting, intelligent engineering, lot tracking, plant maintenance, just-in-time performance, electronic data interchange, and executive information systems.
In addition, Paradigm includes exciting capabilities:
- Enhanced system report writing with Report Builder
- Powerful user-level reporting with an enhanced View/Report Module
- Graphical real-time WIP Status Reports show the locations of work orders
- Advanced Shop Floor Monitor for movement tracking
- Advanced Production Planning Functions
- Allowing the same production part number to be used for multiple customers
- Management of Replenishment Orders
- Support for industry-leading databases, such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL server