Horizons International

While equipment manufacturing ranges from small specialized tools, to material handling installations to specialty tasks such as imaging, most operations struggle with the same information management challenges regardless of size. Version control of bills of material that is easily accessible and secure, refurbishment and rework investments that can be tracked and analyzed, collecting production tracking information with low transaction costs to eliminate waste and executing strategies based on pull rather than push systems, are common goals for these discrete manufacturers. The inherent conflict of lean initiatives with traditional material planning tools creates additional challenges for accounting and finance when month end reporting is needed promptly. Horizons Manufacturing suite offers tools for dimensional calculations can help flatten bills thus reducing overhead costs, flexible material planning methods can help establish use up patterns for evaluating daily plans against budgets. A complete engineering change function, including user login approvals processes brings security and visibility to your engineering needs. A front end configuration tool can reduce overhead for BOM creation and improve customer service and sales performance.