Howdy again from Austin Texas USA,
I don't know who started the "trend" of the "Ten Things to Know for Today", but I can tell you that there is only "One Thing You Need to Know for Today" and that one thing is that
1. SYNCHRO ERP PROVIDES THE BEST SOFTWARE FOR THE METALCASTING INDUSTRY!
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Seriously, if you are a metalcaster, that is all you need to know. Forget the other nine items. This is numero uno.
Regardless of your size, all that matters is if you use liquid metal in your operations then Synchro ERP is for you. Synchro is priced for any sized metalcaster, has all of the tools you need, includes all modules including future modules, unlimited support for trained users, and all software upgrades.
Until next time, see you on down the road at the ICI in Nashville!
Shane Allen
Head of North American Operations
ERP SOFTWARE SPECIFIC FOR THE CAST METAL INDUSTRY Cut your business costs, spend less time managing systems and more time focused on profit and growth!
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Good Deed for the Day...
Howdy from Austin Texas where Fall has arrived,
"I guess you could say we did our good deed for the day, Mayor" is a line from my favorite picture show movie of all time, you know you go to the chilled air picture show place and have some good buttery popcorn... The movie is Tombstone and was said by Wyatt Earp after the gunfight at the OK Corral as he was passing the mayor John Clum. Wyatt's good deed was taking out the Clanton's and McLaury's.
Awesome movie, full of foreshadowing if you pay attention.
Well, I did my good deed for the day on Saturday by donating platelets, as I alluded to in the prior blog post.
Anyway, how about doing your good deed for the day and getting in touch with me regarding the software needs of your facility. I have little doubt that your good deed would yield a bountiful fall harvest.
Until next time, see you on down the road at the ICI!
Shane Allen
Head of Synchro ERP North American Operations
"I guess you could say we did our good deed for the day, Mayor" is a line from my favorite picture show movie of all time, you know you go to the chilled air picture show place and have some good buttery popcorn... The movie is Tombstone and was said by Wyatt Earp after the gunfight at the OK Corral as he was passing the mayor John Clum. Wyatt's good deed was taking out the Clanton's and McLaury's.
Awesome movie, full of foreshadowing if you pay attention.
Well, I did my good deed for the day on Saturday by donating platelets, as I alluded to in the prior blog post.
Anyway, how about doing your good deed for the day and getting in touch with me regarding the software needs of your facility. I have little doubt that your good deed would yield a bountiful fall harvest.
Until next time, see you on down the road at the ICI!
Shane Allen
Head of Synchro ERP North American Operations
Friday, 21 September 2012
The importance of training...
Hello and good Friday afternoon from a sunny and relatively "cool" Texas.
Thought I should bring you to to date on what all is going on.
I had the pleasure of meeting up with my fellow metalcasters last Friday at the American Foundry Society Texas Chapter meeting at the baseball park in Arlington. It was a good gathering, although the weather was vile and I got a stupid speeding ticket, but we were under the out of the rain under an awning to watch the game.
The food and beverages and the "Texas hospitality" were up to their usual high standards and a great time was had by all. Synchro ERP is a platinum level sponsor of the Texas Chapter and I am also pleased to report that we are now a corporate level member of the national AFS American Foundry Society.
Training and on-going is so vastly important in any endeavor. When I was up in the Dallas-Fort Worth, D/FW, Metroplex,I decided I needed to get gussied up and get a haircut. I was getting ready for lunch and was just driving and passed a beauty college - a place where people get trained to cut and style hair. Hey, I figured I just needed a simple haircut so what harm could a beauty college be, it's not like I need dreadlocks or coloring or anything like that! Well, the good looking girl that cut my hair was supposed to be near graduation so we gave it a whirl. Well, this turned into being the longest haircut of my life. The hair kept flying and she was going from side to side - and I was afraid to look in the mirror! After an hour and a half, she pronounced me finished. Although I didn't want it, I now have a new very short doo! My regular hair dresser that I have gone to since 1981 will not know what to do with me next time I see her.
You know what? Hair grows back! Every barber and beautician had to start from scratch and learn to cut hair. I am pleased that I was able to help a student with her all important training. I am so committed to training that when I had minor surgery a few years ago, the phlebotomist asked me if I minded a trainee poking me. I've got really good veins so I said no problem! Well, it took quite a few sticks, but she finally got it done. Yep, it hurt a bit, but I realize that training is so so important that I'm willing to be a "stuck" guinea pig. I donate blood platelets all the time and have also been a willing subject before. Speaking of which, I will be donating platelets and whole red cells early Saturday morning. I'm up to about at least 25 gallons of donations for my lifetime. That's a lot of blood, but, it grows back!
(This picture is of the Dallas Cowboys American Football team stadium that cost just short of $1 billion USD - tax payer dollars mind you. Arlington Texas has one of the highest hotel/motel and rental car taxes in Texas at something like 18% - all to pay for the Dallas Cowboys and Texas Rangers stadiums)
Obtaining training in Synchro ERP is so vital to getting the most out of the system, whether the facility is just ramping up or has been a long term customer. There just is no substitute for training.
In other news, Simon and Richy have been touring North America the last few weeks and will be heading back across the pond shortly. Jean-Marie is on his way to India for a new customer install. Synchro has added a number of new customers in recent weeks in India, China, Mexico, and North America. More are on their way as global metalcasters realize the need for metalcasting specific software.
Until next time, see you on down the road - very shortly - at the Investment Casting Institute expo in Nashville.
(my buddy Wyatt Earp just celebrated his first birthday - he is still bouncing off the walls - I should have named him Bouncy!)
Thought I should bring you to to date on what all is going on.
I had the pleasure of meeting up with my fellow metalcasters last Friday at the American Foundry Society Texas Chapter meeting at the baseball park in Arlington. It was a good gathering, although the weather was vile and I got a stupid speeding ticket, but we were under the out of the rain under an awning to watch the game.
The food and beverages and the "Texas hospitality" were up to their usual high standards and a great time was had by all. Synchro ERP is a platinum level sponsor of the Texas Chapter and I am also pleased to report that we are now a corporate level member of the national AFS American Foundry Society.
Training and on-going is so vastly important in any endeavor. When I was up in the Dallas-Fort Worth, D/FW, Metroplex,I decided I needed to get gussied up and get a haircut. I was getting ready for lunch and was just driving and passed a beauty college - a place where people get trained to cut and style hair. Hey, I figured I just needed a simple haircut so what harm could a beauty college be, it's not like I need dreadlocks or coloring or anything like that! Well, the good looking girl that cut my hair was supposed to be near graduation so we gave it a whirl. Well, this turned into being the longest haircut of my life. The hair kept flying and she was going from side to side - and I was afraid to look in the mirror! After an hour and a half, she pronounced me finished. Although I didn't want it, I now have a new very short doo! My regular hair dresser that I have gone to since 1981 will not know what to do with me next time I see her.
You know what? Hair grows back! Every barber and beautician had to start from scratch and learn to cut hair. I am pleased that I was able to help a student with her all important training. I am so committed to training that when I had minor surgery a few years ago, the phlebotomist asked me if I minded a trainee poking me. I've got really good veins so I said no problem! Well, it took quite a few sticks, but she finally got it done. Yep, it hurt a bit, but I realize that training is so so important that I'm willing to be a "stuck" guinea pig. I donate blood platelets all the time and have also been a willing subject before. Speaking of which, I will be donating platelets and whole red cells early Saturday morning. I'm up to about at least 25 gallons of donations for my lifetime. That's a lot of blood, but, it grows back!
Obtaining training in Synchro ERP is so vital to getting the most out of the system, whether the facility is just ramping up or has been a long term customer. There just is no substitute for training.
In other news, Simon and Richy have been touring North America the last few weeks and will be heading back across the pond shortly. Jean-Marie is on his way to India for a new customer install. Synchro has added a number of new customers in recent weeks in India, China, Mexico, and North America. More are on their way as global metalcasters realize the need for metalcasting specific software.
Until next time, see you on down the road - very shortly - at the Investment Casting Institute expo in Nashville.
(my buddy Wyatt Earp just celebrated his first birthday - he is still bouncing off the walls - I should have named him Bouncy!)
Monday, 10 September 2012
Nagging Doubts...
Oops, two posts in one day! Well, this just came up and reared it's ugly head so I thought I'd do a post about it.
All the rage in the tech and business community is about doing business in the cloud. Everyone seems to want to jump on the bandwagon. Put all of the eggs in one basket. It's a great concept, really the mainframe in the sky concept that "IBM-Itty Bitty Money - International Bureau of Magicians - well sell you less for more" pioneered long ago with big iron mainframes doing enterprise computing.
The problem is, when the cloud get's dark, it can cause massive problems for businesses that do business from the cloud. Right now, a major cloud provider is down, GoDaddy. So, if you are doing your foundry processing from the cloud and happen to be using GoDaddy, no shipments can be made, no invoices processed, production lost, scheduling in disarray, etc.
I personally just am not totally convinced that the cloud is ready for mission critical applications that need up time of 24/7/365...
Hosting service GoDaddy is down
Doing a Google of "GoDaddy" for results within the last hour brings up 673 results and counting.
Oops, looks like the hacking group Anonymous is taking credit for the outage - this could be bad.
https://twitter.com/AnonOpsLegion/status/245218636187443200
Google now responds with 930 results regarding the outage...
Until next time, see you on down the road.
Shane Allen
Head of Synchro ERP North American Operations
All the rage in the tech and business community is about doing business in the cloud. Everyone seems to want to jump on the bandwagon. Put all of the eggs in one basket. It's a great concept, really the mainframe in the sky concept that "IBM-Itty Bitty Money - International Bureau of Magicians - well sell you less for more" pioneered long ago with big iron mainframes doing enterprise computing.
The problem is, when the cloud get's dark, it can cause massive problems for businesses that do business from the cloud. Right now, a major cloud provider is down, GoDaddy. So, if you are doing your foundry processing from the cloud and happen to be using GoDaddy, no shipments can be made, no invoices processed, production lost, scheduling in disarray, etc.
I personally just am not totally convinced that the cloud is ready for mission critical applications that need up time of 24/7/365...
Hosting service GoDaddy is down
Doing a Google of "GoDaddy" for results within the last hour brings up 673 results and counting.
Oops, looks like the hacking group Anonymous is taking credit for the outage - this could be bad.
https://twitter.com/AnonOpsLegion/status/245218636187443200
Google now responds with 930 results regarding the outage...
Until next time, see you on down the road.
Shane Allen
Head of Synchro ERP North American Operations
Here it is...
Howdy Doody from Texas,
Here it is, already September 2012 and it seems like the year has flown by. Hard to believe we are already almost mid month 09.
Fall rolled in this weekend, actually a "false fall", and the cool temperatures are just "fooling us" as we have many hot days left in 2012. But, we will enjoy it while it sticks around...
Things are going very very well at Synchro ERP. The implementation and training teams are hot on the trail of new installations and training across the vast expanse of the globe. As I type this, Simon is once again back in North America, probably for his 10th or 11th time this year. Jean-Marie is about ready to pack-em-up - head-em-out to India for a new customer installation. Richy will be traversing the pond next week for customer installations and training here in the states.
Hey, don't forget, the ICI - Investment Casting Institute expo and meeting is coming up really quickly! It will be in "Music City USA" - Nashville. I've been to Nashville several times and it is really a great location. I'm looking forward to meeting up with all of the investment casters and having a great time introducing them to the world of Synchro ERP. It will also be great as I will get to catch up with our MD/CEO Chris Collins! MD-Managing Director. Ha Ha - first time I ever got an email from Chris when we were discussing employment, I thought the MD was Medical Doctor... Couldn't figure out why a Medical Doctor was doing foundry work. Ah, Americans - we are not much in tune are we - MD-Managing Director...
Well, all is well this lovely September day.
My buddy, Wyatt Earp, recently celebrated birthday #1. He is doing well and is a true and faithful companion in whom I can safely confide....
Until next time, "only the ears know", see you on down the road... (10 points, name the 80's TV show where "only the toes know" came from...)
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