Thousands of dollars a month are being saved in efficiency and microfilm replacement costs. New York Air Brake TIMS running under Windows NT on Novell LAN NYAB is a 125 year old manufacturer of locomotive air brake systems. As the worldwide leader in this segment, NYAB decided to become ISO9000 certified to ensure that their quality control methodology was world-class. The process of maintaining ISO certification requires an enormous amount of documentation of both procedures and data. With TIMS installed, not only can all paper be scanned into various categories for retrieval, but all associated data from multiple data sources can be integrated as well.
All data becomes instantly searchable by indexes, keywords or full-text searching.
TIMS automatically retrieves 23 fields of data each night from both an internally developed, MSAccess based system as well as from a Computer Associates Production Requirements Management System. This data is added to the extensive TIMS database and allows authorized users all over the plant to gain single access to all data required to manage each individual manufacturing issue. This creates not only additional client licenses but service fees as well. A duplicate of this system was recently installed in NYAB's Ontario, Canada manufacturing plant. As this engagement continued to grow, managing and storing all the inbound tax forms and associated information was quickly becoming a burden.