About the Speaker

Automating Your Shop Floor

Many manufacturers are struggling with paper based recording of production data. This can include time that an employee or team worked on a specific job, material transactions and lot tracking information. This usually means that it is either manually recorded into a system later or stored in a file cabinet somewhere. Neither scenario is ideal as they lead to inefficiency in recording or later finding the information. Both also leave lots of room for error.   

Featured Best Practices:

Learn how Atlantic Tube & Steel ( ATS ) leveraged the capabilities of SYSPRO and their existing production equipment controllers to significantly reduce the amount of data reporting that was being captured manually by production personnel. ATS worked with SYSPRO Business Solutions to develop an automated data capture and reporting system on the shop floor.

Paybacks include:

• improved production efficiencies
• quicker response to quality control issues
• Real time access to work in process and finished goods inventory information  
• timeliness and efficiency of reporting

About the Speakers:

Marvin Bavcevic CA,  Controller, Atlantic Tube & Steel Inc. (ATS)
Marvin has worked with the manufacturing sector for 15 years, with the most recent eight years at his current employer, a manufacturer of steel tubing used in the automotive and various other industries.  Prior to joining Atlantic Tube & Steel Inc., he was an assurance manager at KPMG, focusing on a variety of manufacturing clients, joining KPMG after completing his B.Comm at the University of Toronto.  His exposure to a diverse client base during his assurance work experience enabled him to develop the necessary foresight and vision to manage and execute the most recent ERP conversion at ATS, implementing Syspro. 

Dale Kehler, General Manager, SYSPRO Business Solutions Inc.
Dale Kehler has been working with SYSPRO software solutions for more than 11 years.  He brings many years' experience in SYSPRO ERP implementations, product and technical support, project management, training and education. Since joining Syspro Canada in 1998 as a support analyst, Dale has gained in-depth product knowledge across a broad cross section of SYSPRO's growing functionality. As Support Services Manager, he played an integral part in supporting, educating and assisting Canada's reseller channel as SYSPRO rolled out release after release of growing functionality and advancing technology.  In 2002, SYSPRO released its new XML-based, component architecture, e.net solutions and Dale anchored a new Professional Services division at SYSPRO Canada; his mandate: educate resellers and customers about the benefits and capabilities of this visionary framework. "