About Bob, Manufacturing Systems, and History

http://www.s-i-inc.com/bob.jpgNow that I am 100% retired, this home page now only serves as a personal page for Robert Schuldenfrei.  For an old audio introduction, please click on this RealAudio link. 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 Palm Beach County Adult Ed.  The first six week course will ran at Forest Hill High School from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on Thursday evenings in the fall of 2006.  Each session was 90 minutes long.  The course is titled: “How To Take and Display Great Photographs.”  The second run through will begin in January of 2007.  To view a poster about this class follow this link.

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 Massachusetts.  Now that I am no longer formally working, there was no purpose served by keeping a corporation on the books.  It cost me roughly one thousand dollars for the ego stroke.  While S. I. Inc. is no more, this web site still exists.  Over the next couple of months it will be transformed into a more personal site.  I will be teaching a course in digital photography this fall for Palm Beach Adult Ed so much of the new material will be photographically focused. 

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 Palm Beach, FL.  The last formal issue of the WORKS was the Summer 2005 issue.  It can be found below.

Robert Schuldenfrei has worked on a project for High Tide Software from the summer of 2003 until moving south in the spring of 2005.  The work was market development for the Wellesley, MA firm.  High Tide is making the transition from a board level systems programming house to a full line software company.  Their web site is found at www.hightidesoftware.com.

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 Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and Parson College.

An excellent family story is the Klondike adventure of Solomon and Rebecca Schuldenfrei.

My wife, Patricia, is working for Bethesda Memorial Hospital.  To view Pat's resume just click on the link.


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. Ocean Blvd - #616
     Palm Beach, FL  33480


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