Dr. Luis C. Cattani, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Detroit and CIM Director at Uni Boring Company, is using Resource Manager for both teaching MRP and Shop Control applications and to analyze scheduling and capacity problems for Uni Boring Company, an automotive powertrain tier one supplier for the Big Three.

"What I like about the Resource Manager is that in less than an hour of working with the templates you can analyze complex manufacturing scheduling problems. With a single keystroke, I can run different 5 year plans and then instantly drop down to the next 30 day plan -- displaying exact loading by resources by day. I have also successfully used the package to teach Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) concepts in a Graduate Manufacturing Systems Course at University of Detroit Mercy. In this case, we provided a realistic MRP and scheduling problem to the class and a few pages of summary instructions, and they were able to create feasible schedules in just a few hours."

Dr. Cattani, continues: "In addition I have found the technical support at User Solutions very friendly and customer oriented."