paperless production

issues with paper

You use paper on your shop floor to organize your team, keep track of work, and know what you're doing. Paper is unreliable. It gets dirty during production and even lost. Your team has little direction with a paper packet. Whether you have one page or many with your job packets, they are constantly looking for the work they're doing - what you're asking, how many and any specific instructions for them to follow. Paper travelers get behind. Not just in production but also behind the work you need them to do. If any customer has made changes to what they want you to do, that job packet is already on its way and it's almost impossible to find it to make the changes in-process.

capturing your paper

The first thing we're going to do is capture all those files you use for paper production. They could be in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or even Access. They could be pdfs or drawings. Everything you've got. We'll compare them for content and prepare to make them digital.

digitize your processes

Once we've collected all the information you need to see digitally, we start preparing a database project to move your paper files. This is not a "paper on glass" project with a set of pdfs for posterity. We're going to actually digitize the work you do. That means putting instructions in order, creating a routing, and dividing your data collections properly. We've built automated tools to do this work, so we can do it more quickly and accurately than a copy-and-paste effort that you might undertake yourself.

choose your system

The easiest step from here would be to load your information into Quantum, but that's not your only option. Choose the system that you want that information in. We will provide you a file in the format that is acceptable to the final file structure and provide it to you and that team for ingestion.

what makes us qualified?

While we don't have 40 years' experience, we're closing in on 30. We're specialists in operator-centric work. If you have people on your shop floor managing your work and you need to manage them, we can help. We're specifically priced and structured to help manufacturers of all sizes. With QuickBooks especially, we're teamed up with small businesses.

beyond paper with Quantum

Have you decided that Quantum might be a good fit for you? We can help you get there with the same migration services we talked about above, although streaming it into Quantum can increase the power of the data you have even more than with a different tool. Here are three ways we can go beyond Database Rescue and help push you into the future.

inventory management

You keep your inventory in Excel or Access and count it regularly. You lose it. Don't know how much you have or if it will work. You need Quantum. Quantum can track and trace inventory from receiving through true usage on the shop floor. Automate your inventory and solve your materials issues.

production scheduling

You use Excel to build your team schedule. The minute something goes wrong, the schedule is never the same again. You spend all day keeping it updated. You need Quantum. Quantum can automate your production schedule and keep your team on track for the work today, tomorrow and beyond.

job board

You track jobs in Excel. It's the tool you have and it's better than nothing. But jobs start running behind or get missed and you don't know what to do. You need a tool to help you manage the work. Quantum can track your work for you so you can focus on getting it done. Automate your workflow.

consistent access. searchability. sustainability.

You have Excel or Access databases for inventory or tools. You need to move that data and get ready-access to your files. Or, you have data in an old system and need to pull it out to a searchable, sustainable form. Either way, we have a solution.