B.R. Lee Industries to Deploy WorkWise TCM Applications at all Locations.Business Editors MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2003 WorkWise, Inc. announced today that it will provide B.R. Lee Industries Inc. with software and services to support its business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . B.R. Lee Industries Inc., headquartered in Denver, NC, is the world's leading maker of commercial asphalt asphalt (ăs`fôlt, –fălt), brownish-black substance used commonly in road making, roofing, and waterproofing. Chemically, it is a natural mixture of hydrocarbons. pavers. B.R. Lee and WorkWise will partner to deploy solutions for manufacturing, distribution, financials, product data management and document management. "B.R. Lee Industries purchased Rosco Manufacturing in Madison, South Dakota Madison is a city in Lake County, South Dakota, USA. The population was 6,540 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lake CountyGR6 and is home to Dakota State University. in June of 2001. The Rosco facility was a TCM (1) (Trellis-Coded Modulation/Viterbi Decoding) A technique that adds forward error correction to a modulation scheme by adding an additional bit to each baud. TCM is used with QAM modulation, for example. user at the time and is currently utilizing the software," said Bob Grail, Vice President and Director of Operations for B.R. Lee Industries. "A project was undertaken by our company to implement common software at all our locations. We evaluated products based upon our desire for a common system that would meet the individual needs of all of our facilities. In the end, we chose WorkWise and TCM in part because of the many functional enhancements in their current V7.0 release and in particular, we are excited to see the "Lean" manufacturing philosophy within the TCM product." "We are very pleased to add B.R. Lee Industries as one of our newest customers and partner with their team to achieve a successful implementation of TCM," said Wayne Wedell, President of WorkWise. "It's gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to see our enhanced TCM Version 7.0 Enterprise Applications extended throughout B. R. Lee Industries. Our customer-centric business model along with advancements made to our proven TCM Enterprise Applications continues to provide new customer opportunities that benefit our large existing customer base." About BR Lee Industries (www.leeboy.com) B.R. Lee Industries, owners of LeeBoy, with its headquarters and production facility located in Denver, North Carolina Denver is an unincorporated community located in Lincoln County in the U.S. state of North CarolinaGR3. It is situated on North Carolina State Highway 16 on the west side of Lake Norman on the Catawba River. , also operates the Rosco manufacturing facility in Madison, South Dakota. LeeBoy offers a full product line including asphalt pavers, motor graders, asphalt distributors, pothole pothole, in geology, cylindrical pit formed in the rocky channel of a turbulent stream. It is formed and enlarged by the abrading action of pebbles and cobbles that are carried by eddies, or circular water currents that move against the main current of a stream. patchers, brooms, chip spreaders, pneumatic pneumatic /pneu·mat·ic/ (noo-mat´ik) 1. pertaining to air. 2. respiratory. pneu·mat·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to air or other gases. 2. and steel drum steel drum Tuned gong made from the end, and part of the wall, of an oil barrel. The barrel's end surface is hammered into a concave shape, and several areas are outlined by chiseled grooves. rollers, belt loaders, and water and street flusher trucks under the LeeBoy, Rosco and Athey brand names. About WorkWise, Inc (www.workwiseinc.com) WorkWise is a customer-centric solution provider of the Time Critical Manufacturing(R) (TCM(TM)) enterprise application. In addition to the TCM Enterprise Application, WorkWise provides a full range of offerings, including Customer Support, Consulting, Technical and Integration Services. WorkWise offers solutions to make-to-order, repetitive and mixed-mode manufacturers to shorten cycle times, reduce inventory and improve customer service. Companies that require solutions that simplify and optimize manufacturing information, supply chain management, manufacturing execution and planning can enhance their operations through use of TCM by taking time out of the business processes and increasing value-add in products and services. |
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