MicroManager

In today’s ever increasingly competitive markets, you need the tools to help you keep track of your shops critical data. MicroManager gives you front to back production management tools to maximize both the control of your operation, and your profits.





MicroManager’s Business Management solution provides a centralized view of all aspects of your employee, customer, and vendor information.

Time Clock
The MicroManager Time Clock system allows all your employees can clock in and out of work.  The Time clock can also be used to log in and out of specific work stations in the shop, allowing you track your shops productivity.  This system enables you to completely replace your existing manual time card machines, and generate accurate reports for employee records.
Day Planner
The Day Planner is designed to allow each user to enter and maintain their own schedule and appointment information.  This information is secure and specific to each individual user.
Business Reports
The business reports area is designed for the storage and display of reports relating to overall business management. Examples of report types that would be used here would reports listing all employees or other contacts and information related to those contacts, or reports showing statistical management type information.
Document Management
Document management is designed to assist in organizing maintaining and viewing all of the documents required for business and production management. Documents can be easily attached to any of the objects within the system such as companies, employees, materials, projects and parts just to name a few. Attaching a document can be done by selecting it from your file structure or by scanning in paper documents. Once a document is attached it can be retrieved by selecting the object it is attached to and selecting from a list of documents attached to that object.

Project Editor
Micromanager provides several different power methods of project estimation as well as numerous optional features to allow for maximum flexibility and control when creating an estimate.
Cost Based Estimating
Micromanager calculates material and labor and allows numerous other pricing factors to be included in the estimate. The materials are calculated by calculating material quantity requirements and applying the price values for the material based on Material Class setup information. The labor is calculated based on the default factory layout and activity path setup. Each part and product is routed through the production process based on its activity path and labor prices are applied according to labor price values set at the Activity Station level.
Library Product Estimating
Pricing is based on a preset price per product in a user created library. This price is entered per style group per product. Additional pricing factors can be added to the library and added to products in an estimate. Prices for finished ends, installation, and shipping can also be assigned at the product level in the library.
Project Creation
Projects can be created either in Microvellum Toolbox and then imported into Micromanager or can be created directly in MicroManager using a your imported Microvellum Toolbox Library.

Vendor Optimization
Vendor optimization uses the historical statistical material ordering information to determine which vendor is best to purchase a specified material from.
Material Orders
The material orders area allows the user two primary material ordering options.

Manually create the orders using several selection methods and project materials order assist tools
Allow the system to automatically crated and schedule purchase orders based on pre scheduled project release dates

Material purchase orders can be recorded in the system, printed, or sent to accounting software. The ordering process will affect the inventory calculations for a material.

Material Receiving
Material receiving completes the material order cycle. It allows the user to record a transaction whenever a material is received and to enter additional information about received orders such as materials that are damaged or back ordered.
Material Checkout
Material Checkout completes the material use cycle. It allows the user to record a transaction whenever a material is actually used by production for a project release. It also allows management to track who used the material and determine if materials are disappearing fraudulently by comparing the checkout numbers with inventory counts and estimated project material requirements.
Inventory Control
Inventory control provides the tools to effectively track and control inventory stock levels.

· Material stock on hand graph
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· Material Transactions list display
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· Material transactions report
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· Estimated and actual stock on hand values
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· Update physical stock on hand count

Shop Setup & Layout

The factory setup and layout area serves two primary functions:
  1. Allows the user to graphically layout and configure their shop floor plan.
  2. Setup area for all of the production related objects used by Micromanager
  • Activity Stations
  • Activity Path Spreadsheet
  • Machines
  • Shifts
  • Breaks
Capacity Planning
Capacity planning is designed to automatically create all of the work orders for all selected project releases based on preset criteria such as shift length, after which it will schedule all of the work orders to match additional user set criteria such as time level employees.
Scheduling
Scheduling uses the output from capacity planning to generate time lines and schedules for all aspects of production.
Project Progress Tracking
Project Progress Tracking allows the user to view the real-time progress of any selected project release . It also displays production schedule information and client-project information.  Giving you ultimate oversight of all projects being processed in your shop.

System Requirements
Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 or equivalent processor

Memory: 2GB RAM, 4GB recommended

Disk Space: 1.8GB available hard disk space for standard installation

Operating System: Microsoft® Windows 7 (Home, Premium, Professional, or Ultimate), Vista (Home Premium, Business or Ultimate), XP

Monitor: 1024×768 VGA with true color, 1280×1024 or higher recommended

Video Card: 128 MB or greater, 256 or greater recommended

Media Device: Install from download or DVD