Check out http://www.manex.com, their system is specifically designed for electronics manufacturing. I had worked with it about 7 years ago, when it was still in its infancy, and found it to be an excellent solution. I'm sure its only gotten better since then.... Mike McMonagle PCBA Process Engineering Telxon Corporation (713) 307-2443 Phone (713) 307-2581 Fax www.telxon.com ' Innovative Solutions for Mobile Information and Wireless Communications' -----Original Message----- From: Stephen R. Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 2:33 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] MRP Systems... Hi ya'll! I know this isn't a good question to ask us assembly type folks (but maybe it is...), it has to do with MRP systems. My boss asked me what I knew about MRP systems. I told him not much, but I did know that using the one we have here is pretty clunky. He said he agrees...hard to do any sort of queries, layer upon layer of screens to look at something, etc. It's an old mainframe based type of system (Western Data rings a bell, but I'm not really sure). So he asked me if I knew of any other MRP systems that would be easier to use. At the last place I worked at, myself, along with some other people in the company was given a presentation by some guys on a system called MRP-9000...I was pretty impressed. All windows-based screens, can integrate a barcode system in it, among many other things. Are there any other systems out there that anyone can recommend looking into? My boss asked me to try and find a few...I'm pretty clueless except for MRP-9000... -Steve Gregory- ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ############################################################## ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ##############################################################