Conference Topics
EPICS is a Manufacturing Execution System (MES), ideally suited to serve as the intermediate stage between your process control systems and your ERP or financial system. We will discuss linking EPICS to these systems, including Order Entry, press supervisory systems, paint/anodize systems, inventory or stocking systems, auto-mated packing lines, and daily exports to A/R or ERP.
Other program highlights include:
- Using EPICS Multiplant features to improve information flow with your remote finishing facility
- New Stock Inventory features
- The new Die Oven Module
- Fine tuning press practices to reduce scrap and improve production rates
- Optimizing production postings with configuration settings
- How to best utilize the EPICS Kits & Assemblies features
- Using Qlikview business information software with EPICS
- Reactivating closed sales orders
- Getting the most out of EPICS through better use of under-utilized features such as:
- Physical Inventory tools
- Reserve Orders
- Using JPEGS for packing descriptions
- Tools for scrap sales
- Printing a Bill of Lading
- Corrective Action Module
- Quotation Module
There will be, of course, two ever-popular Wist List sessions. A new Wish List begins each year at the Conference. It is compiled into the form of a ballot and sent to all EPICS users. The results of the vote becomes a priority list for Foy Inc for the next year. Your ideas and the ideas of thousands of other extruders over the past 30 years is what has made EPICS the world's most popular extrusion software.
The special conference event this year will be a tour of the new Dallas Cowboys stadium. You do not have to be a Cowboys fan, or even a football fan, to appreciate this colossal new structure featuring extrusions produced by EPICS users!