This company makes engineering prototypes from schematics, so small lots of products in development can be tested, says an IT pilot fish working there.

“The orders are processed by SAP, then are sent to a central SQL server,” fish says. “Before a line starts building prototypes, they have to be cleared by the manager of the line.

“Each manager has a custom application to look at the orders. If he decides that they can do the order based on the requirements, he clicks a button to clear the order.”

Then the manager can click on a “Send To Line” button, popping up a form for typing in information about the order. Then clicking “Commit” sends the order to the line, and sends an email notification to the line supervisor.

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