For Immediate Release: Chris Collins & Tom Renk to Speak at AFS Wisconsin Regional

Chris Collins, CEO and Managing Director, will be making a presentation titled “Why ERP for Small and Medium Sized Foundries”. A short abstract of this presentation is:

A short talk on the importance of specific ERP/MRP software systems for the modern day foundry. Including historical context, main areas of concern, and roles of past and current technologies, the impact of global communications, tips of systems acquisition, and a glimpse into the future...

The talk with focus on the specific needs of small and medium sized metalcasters, making them aware of the need in the 21st century to revolutionize their operations through modern ERP/MRP systems. Chris will provide information on what composes an ERP-Enterprise Resource Planning and MRP-Material Requirements Planning system and why it is so essentially necessary to implement a system.

Affordable solutions are available to all sizes metalcasters and this presentation will focus on the specific needs and concerns of small to medium sized metalcasters. The goal of the presentation will be to enlighten metalcasters that industry specific ERP/MRP solutions are available for the specific metalcasting industry segment and will highlight that metalcasting is vastly different from all other forms of manufacturing and production.

Joining Chris for the presentation will be Tom Renk, President of UMF-United Machine aand Foundry of  Winona Minnesota. Tom will specifically address the needs of metalcasters in today’s fast paced global “Wild-West-Web”,“speed to market”, “customer sensitive” environment that is replete with quality and cost conscious issues. Tom will lend personal credence to his experiences in implementing, managing, and using on a daily basis a modern ERP/MRP system and how such system has improved his all important bottom line.

Please join the AFS Wisconsin Chapter, Synchro32 and United Machine and Foundry on Wednesday June 16th 2010 at 9am CDT for this enlightening, upbeat, and informative presentation on how all sizes of metalcasters can compete with the titans of the industry on a global basis.

WISCONSIN CHAPTER
AMERICAN FOUNDRY SOCIETY
JUNE 15-17, 2010 / OLYMPIA RESORT
http://www.wisconsinafs.org/1006/2010Conference.pdf
http://www.wisconsinafs.org/

Chris Collins is founder and CEO of Synchro32, creators of the production control ERP/MRP software system Synchro32. With more than twenty-five years of experience in the design of production control systems specifically for the cast metal industry, Collins has personally contributed towards three complete ERP/MRP software suites, including the complete design and creation of Synchro32. With a background in both engineering and software design since 1984 Chris Collins has played a pivotal role in the form and functionality of modern day foundry specific ERP systems.

Tom Renk is President of United Machine and Foundry and has been with them for fourteen years. Tom has a degree in manufacturing engineering from Iowa State University. Tom cut his teeth in the metalcasting industry working for the American Foundry Society, AFS, in the early 1990’s writing computer code and was introduced to the Synchro32 legacy System DEWTEC at that time. Tom has over twenty-one years of experience in the metalcasting industry.

Synchro32 is the global leading provider of metalcasting specific software for managing the ERP/MRP needs today’s metalcaster. Synchro32 is literally a metalcasting operation in a software box. Synchro32 maintains offices in North America (Austin Texas), the United Kingdom, South America (Brasil), Europe, and Spain. On the web at www.synchro32.com and by email at sales@synchro32.com