Conference 2.301::basestar

1558.0. "BASEstar Interest Group (BIG) Conference" by QUAKKS::EGOLF (John C. Egolf ZKO1-1/J33 DTN 381-0257) Tue Feb 11 1997 08:42

	Note from Peter Rhodes...

From:	NAME: Peter Rhodes @OGO             
	FUNC: Industrial Industries           
	TEL: DTN: 297-8351                    <RHODES.PETER@A1@STOWOA@OGO>
To:     See Below

        
        Our BASEstar Group held a successful User's Conference in 
        Orlando, February 6 and 7. Customer attendees were evenly 
        divided between Europe and North America including Ford 
        Kentucky Truck, Peugeot, Phillip Morris, Nestle UK, Shell 
        Services, Toyota, Dupont, Unilever, Proctor and Gamble and ITT 
        Auto. Partners present were EDS, SESAM, Carotek and ABF 
        (integration partner in Austria, Germany and now the US).
        
        Jim Heaton, VP Technology, AMR gave the keynote speech. He 
        spoke about the Agile Plant which must be prepared for 
        unexpected change as divisions are bought, sold and 
        outsourced. Future manufacturing applications must be 
        adaptable to multiple ERP systems.
        
        He also noted that most of the ERP vendors were purchasing or 
        partnering with advanced planning and scheduling ISV's because 
        of their inability to produce a home-grown product that would 
        be trusted at the plant floor level.
        
        Several of the customers and partners gave excellent 
        presentations on what they were accomplishing with BASEstar 
        that no other vendor could provide. ABF showed that, using 
        their tools, a customer could build web-based GUI in five 
        minutes for viewing remote BASEstar data. 
        
        All agreed that this sharing of information was invaluable and 
        recommended that future meetings be held near a reference 
        site.
        
        Several customers requested that Digital be more proactive in 
        publicizing BASEstar and PDAS. Both have unique advantages on 
        the shop floor. When you close a BASEstar account, Digital 
        gains a 10-year customer for products and services. We will be 
        actioning this request.
        
        For more details, please contact John Egolf @ZKO.
        
        Regards.