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United States Patent Obtained by Lilly Software Associates
Patent awarded for VISUAL Manufacturing® software system's concurrent scheduling
AMR Research went on to credit Lilly Software for its "tenacity and commitment to provide small manufacturing organizations with innovative and pragmatic solutions. AMR further described Lilly's solutions as solid and highly intuitive."
1 September 1998, Hampton, NH - Lilly Software Associates, Inc., providers of fully integrated Supply Chain Management software, announces the issuance of a United States patent for software that concurrently schedules both materials and resources. Lilly Software brings to market the first patented software that enables organizations to determine the availability of both materials and resources concurrently.
U.S. Patent No. 5,787,000 was issued on July 28, 1998, and is entitled, "Method and Apparatus for Scheduling Work Orders in a Manufacturing Process." The
patent describes Lilly Software Associates' computerized method for scheduling multiple work orders for manufacturing products. The method enables concurrent
scheduling of materials and resources to process work orders. This patent is a breakthrough for Lilly Software, as well as for the manufacturing software industry. "The implications for scheduling and ERP vendors that tout similar capability remains unclear."
AMR Research went on to credit Lilly Software for its "tenacity and commitment to provide small manufacturing organizations with innovative and pragmatic solutions."
AMR further described Lilly's solutions as "solid and highly intuitive." Lilly Software is a visionary in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS), offering users the ability to increase their profit, utilizing existing resources. Combining revolutionary concurrent scheduling with its fully integrated ERP and APS solution, Lilly Software Associates' patent is an industry first.
"Our VISUAL Manufacturing software system continues to be a leader in the Supply-Chain market," stated Richard T. "Dick" Lilly, CEO of Lilly Software Associates.
"Lilly Software's goal to bring real world scheduling to the manufacturing market has been realized with the VISUAL Manufacturing system. Lilly Software is the sole holder of a concurrent scheduling patent; a testament to the uniqueness and breakthrough capabilities of our software."
The patent is the foundation for Lilly Software's Common Sense Throughput™ , a success strategy for the manufacturing world. Common Sense Throughput leverages Lilly Software's patented concurrent scheduling software, within its flagship product VISUAL Manufacturing® . Common Sense Throughput provides companies with the knowledge to increase throughput by improving efficiency and increasing the utilization of bottlenecks in the manufacturing process.
Lilly Software's flagship product, VISUAL Manufacturing® , was the first software system to feature concurrent scheduling. This component allows each work order to be scheduled specifying a set of operations to be performed, using a plurality of resources and materials. The assigned resource capacities, as well as start and finish times, are displayed in an easy to use Graphical User Interface (GUI).
About Lilly Software Associates
Lilly Software Associates, Inc. provides a complete line of enterprise and
supply chain solutions for manufacturers and distributors. The VISUAL
Enterprise™ suite of products helps companies capture and analyze real-time data
about all their business processes using ERP, Project Management, Business
Performance Management, Quality Management, Customer Relationship Management,
and Warehouse Management System capabilities. From award-winning software to
strategies in Lean Manufacturing and TOC, Lilly Software offers companies the
tools they need for higher productivity and profitability.
Most VISUAL® applications run on Windows® 98, Windows NT,
Windows 2000, Windows XP, UNIX®, LINUX, Novell®, using
SQLBase®, Microsoft SQL Server®, or ORACLE®
relational databases.
Lilly Software has received many industry awards for its products, service, and
financial growth since its inception. Most recently, the company has been voted
one of the Top 10 Best of Breed solutions for manufacturing by readers of
Consumer Goods Technology, listed in
Software Magazine's Top 500,
selected as a Top 100 Logistics Information Technology Provider in
Inbound Logistics, listed in the Top
100 Application Vendors in Supply Chain
e-Business, included in MSI's
Top 100 for its eighth year, and ranked as one of
Start magazine's Hottest Companies.
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