Print MIS systems can help you manage your in-plant’s production and improve its efficiency, while collecting crucial shop floor data.

By Bob Atkinson

• Summarize the benefits you want to get from system. Make a point of covering all of them in your discussions with the various vendors. Also ask them about their user support.

• Once you’ve narrowed it down to two or three possible suppliers, get references and talk to one or two current users of each system whose shops resemble yours. Get their assessment of the products, the installation process and the company’s level of support.