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VANCOUVER, B.C., Canada,
July 19, 2007
Progressive Solutions Inc., Richmond, British
Columbia, announces that it will begin offering Component
Track software in conjunction with its popular bisTrack system
to building materials suppliers with truss and other component
manufacturing facilities.
Component Track is work order and activity-based
costing software designed by truss people for truss people.
It is powerful integrated software that saves time for component
manufactures in three challenging areas:
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Creating estimates that are profitable.
With accurate historical labor and materials cost data,
including bid vs. actual costs at their fingertips, estimators
can bid on and win new business with confidence they’ll
make a profit. |
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Producing work orders efficiently.
Component Track works with all the popular engineering
programs (Alpine, MiTek, Robbins, etc.) so designs and
materials requirements are automatically captured. Users
can break out production phases, such as picking, cutting
and setup/build to track labor costs, and can batch together
like items so they can be efficiently processed together. |
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Tracking and analyzing actual costs effortlessly.
It takes no extra time or paperwork to track labor and
material costs, so it’s easy to know if jobs are
profitable. Production floor personnel simply press touch
screens to display work instructions, start tracking their
time and return unused material to inventory. At the end
of each job, instantly view bid vs. actual costs of material
and labor. |
“Component Track takes the guesswork
out of plant profitability,” says Randy Faris, bisTrack
Sales Manager. “It answers the question: Did I make
money on that order? Component Track promises peace of mind
for today's progressive component manufacturer.”
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Component
Track is Progressive Solutions’ brand-name for a software
product developed by Rigid Component Systems of Longmont, Colorado.
Rigid Components originally developed the software as an in-house
costing system for their own roof and floor truss manufacturing
plant.
“Costing was always the most difficult step for us. So
we built a costing system, and gradually expanded it to manage
our work force and other stages of our workflow including estimating
and producing work orders,” recalls Jeff Harms, VP of
Rigid Components. “We used Microsoft development tools
and user interface, so it’s familiar and easy to learn
how to use. And since it was built by truss manufacturers and
is used in a truss plant, it does just what other truss and
component manufacturers need it to do.”
Component Track is offered as part of the bisTrack suite of
business management products for building materials suppliers.
“bisTrack has been embraced by building materials distributors
and dealers, amassing almost 5000 users in the UK and North
America who seek modern Microsoft technology to maximize human
potential and return on assets in their company,” says
Len Williams, President and CEO of Progressive Solutions. “Our
ability to interface with other Microsoft-based products and
to rapidly develop new features and functionality is a big part
of why our customers buy bisTrack.”
Find out more about bisTrack and Component Track at: www.bisTrack.net
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