About Bob, Manufacturing Systems, and History
Now
that I am 100% retired, this home page now only serves as a personal page for 
While
this is always going to be a work-in-progress, there is a certain sense that we
are now in "production mode". The most important information will be
found right here on the home page. Use the links or the navigation buttons on
the left to find other items of interest.
I have returned to an
old hobby, photography, and turned it into somewhat of a pseudo career. While I am not being paid very much, it is in
a way “work.” I am teaching a course in
digital photography for
I am starting to display
some of my work on this site. Please
push the “Photography” navigation button or follow this link to the photography
page.
In the fall of 2007
there was a new course: Photoshop Elements 5.0, How to Manipulate
and Print Great Photographs. My
teaching notes for this course can be found in Notes.htm. The slides for each lesson can be found in
compressed format on the photography page.
It was time to also
retire S. I. Inc.
For a period of time it was useful to
keep S. I. Inc. in operation. This was
mainly as a consulting vehicle while I was in
Old issues of the S. I. Inc. newsletters
have some stories of that have some merit.
For those who may have interest, we would direct you to the links
provided below to back issues of the
WORKS. The fall of 2004 and Winter
of 2005 have information about some of my last project. Further insight may be gleaned from the
description and history of MCS-3 found throughout this site.
News from S. I. Inc.:
The move has been made, S. I. Inc. is now history, and Bob is living in
The Summer 2005
issue of the WORKS is now out.
Click on Winter 2003 for
the first issue in the current series.
The Spring 2003 was the
second of the modern issues.
The Summer 2003 issue of the WORKS is here.
The Fall 2003 issue of the WORKS can be found here.
The Winter 2004 issue of the WORKS can be found here.
The Spring 2004 issue of the WORKS can be found here.
The Summer 2004 issue of the WORKS can be found here.
The Fall 2004 issue of the WORKS can be found here.
The Winter 2005 issue of the WORKS can be found here.
Some of the engagements we have done in the recent past include doing
marketing research, sales force automation, customer relationship management,
and business policy work with Serino Associates. My clients have been mostly Fortune 500 firms
in these engagements. In the late nineties S. I. Inc. did new product roll-out
consulting for Navision
Software of Atlanta, GA. After that engagement I was involved with a VAR
organization, Shamrock Software, Inc. The focus of this work was to write a
handbook on project management. This substance of this material was how to
manage a team of consultants who were implementing packaged and customized
accounting systems. I am continuing to develop and generalize this handbook. If
anyone would like more information about this handbook, please contact S. I.
Inc. at the address given below.
S. I. Inc. has sold MCS-3 to Maxom Enterprise Solutions of Boothbay
Harbor, ME. We will still be a reseller of MCS-3, but the owner of the product
is Maxom. Sadly, as of the end of the year 2002, Maxom seems to be out of
business with their web site closed down.
Since I have sold off my interest in MCS-3, I can now pursue interesting
engagements in computer based manufacturing planning and control. If I can be
of service, please contact me using information located at the end of this
page.
About Bob:
For a brief biography in resume style, please link to my bio. For a presentation of my
capabilities, please link to my presentation.
At the suggestion of a reader, please find provided a jump table of sites I
find interesting.
The Schuldenfrei family home page can be found at this reference:
A gallery of changing Schuldenfrei
information.
Eric
Schuldenfrei does very high level computer design work. He is on the faculty at
An excellent family story is the Klondike adventure of
Solomon and Rebecca Schuldenfrei.
My wife, Patricia, is working for
About S. I. Inc.:
I am president of S. I. Inc., a software firm. Follow this link to see an
S. I. Inc. brochure. Over
the past four years our focus has been marketing consulting. While we have
skills in many areas, most of our work has been for high tech organizations,
both big and small. We are resellers of MCS-3, software for manufacturing. It
was the product we once owned. It is classic MRP-II for small firms. While the
market for this product is small companies, the software is by no means small.
It is running in divisions of Fortune 500 firms. The system can handle over
25,000 parts and is only limited by the size and power of the computing
facility. There are over 1,500 firms that have used MCS-3. Please link to MCS-3 for more
information.
As an adjunct to our marketing work, we design websites. Any organization can get a Website Starter Kit here.
Buy a day:
We have developed a one day Customer Relationship Health Check. When you
buy a day of our time, we will review all aspects of how you do CRM. We will
suggest ways that you can "Know the Universe." That is how you can
compile a list of all Companies and/or People who could use your product or
service.
MCS-3 is written in COBOL. We are often asked "Why COBOL?" in
this day and age of "modern" languages. An excellent defense of this
powerful language can be found in an article by Jonathan Sayles, of Micro
Focus, Ltd, the firm that created the version of COBOL which is the language of
MCS-3. That article is called COBOL,
and the Business Programming Paradigm.
About the Dedham
Historical Society:
This location is playing host to the Dedham Historical Society (DHS). In
an attempt to have a place in the growing world of cyberspace, the DHS is
starting small with a brief write up about its mission and membership. We will
post the society newsletter and other announcements of interest. Please visit
this site for topics of interest. The Dedham Historical Society can be found here.
For additional
information:
bob@s-i-inc.com
Phone: (561) 582-3340
Or send USPS mail to:
S. I. Inc.
3450 So.
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