Application: Job Shop Manufacturing.
Server: Pentium running Novell NetWare 5.0.
Network: IPX/SPX (NetWare) over Ethernet 10BaseT.
Workstations: 4 PCs running DOS (2 run Windows 95 part time).
Client Since: 1988
AAx Does: Network Support, Cabling, Upgrades & Repairs.
Triumph Precision, became an Automation Access client in 1988 when we
installed a 20-MHz 386 server running Novell NetWare ELS. Recently,
we upgraded their NetWare to 5.0 on a new server (for Y2K compliance) and
replaced the coax network cable with 10BaseT as part of their move to a
new building.
Triumph's NetWare 5.0 server is a Pentium retired from
desktop service. Too slow for today's Windows, its performance as a NetWare
server is more than adequate.
With almost no office staff, and a DOS based manufacturing
package (JobBoss), Triumph isn't on the upgrade bandwagon,
freeing capital for income generating machinery. One computer in the
back office runs Windows95, part time, making a for a very low maintenance
system.
Here are a few of the automatic screw machines that turn bar stock into
machined parts with minimal attention. Triumph has multi-spindle Acme,
Davenport and Brown & Sharp machines.
The highly competitive nature of this business requires efficient operation
and close attention to expenses.
Shipping's 386 still performs adequately with Triumph's DOS based
manufacturing software.
A bay of 6 Brown & Sharp screw machines (above). Triumph also has a large
number of non-automatic machines, some of which are shown here (left).
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