[BELLINGHAM, WA and WEST LAFAYETTE, IN – February 2024] — ProShop ERP, a leading software solution for precision manufacturing companies, has entered into a partnership with the Industrial Engineering School (IE) at Purdue University. The partnership sees donations of seats to the ProShop Digital Ecosystem, helping the school establish a state-of-the-art manufacturing lab. The IE program is ranked number two in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. They’ve heavily invested in the infrastructure and technology to best prepare students for future manufacturing careers. Focus areas include smart manufacturing, supply chain resiliency, and AI and Machine Learning among others.
The ProShop Ecosystem will play a big part in the creation of a 10,000 square-foot automated “factory floor.” Therefore, this facility will be located in the school’s manufacturing lab space to teach and perform lights out manufacturing operations. Students will eventually be taught how to implement a lights out process from beginning to end. They’ll create overarching control systems to manage production planning, scheduling, inventory, PM planning, and finished goods. These skills will help them track every aspect of the manufacturing process. The ProShop Ecosystem will be the shop’s inventory management and ERP system to help control the entire shop floor. Students will learn about greater shop floor management, improving quality inspection documents for fixturing, setup, and images of equipment. They will be able to track raw goods, raw materials, and tool inventory.
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The ProShop Ecosystem will track and manage 3D print, metrology, laser, and human integration labs on different floors. IE will install chip manufacturing equipment after being designated one of the major chip-making hubs in the U.S.
Additionally, the machine shop ERP software will streamline certification and regulation documentation. This will help the school prove that OSHA and other training certifications have occurred.
Aaron Ramsey, IE’s Director of Industrial Relations, first connected with Adrian Sansonetti, ProShop ERP’s Director of Global Project Management Office and ProShop Oceania. Sansonetti was networking within the manufacturing community in the state of Indiana, at the time. After learning of the school’s needs, Sansonetti traveled to West Lafayette. There, a platform demonstration showed all the different system functions that could meet IE’s shop needs.
“ProShop’s ERP software aligns with our operational requirements, providing comprehensive tracking and management capabilities vital for our activities,” said Craig Zehrung, PhD., the Principal Laboratory Operations Specialist in IE. “We’ll extend its application to fully leverage ProShop’s extensive functionalities, achieving a fully automated, or ‘lights out,’ manufacturing environment. We’re evolving into a facility that operates autonomously, leveraging advanced AI and computer control systems. This initiative also offers practical learning opportunities for students, connecting academic knowledge with real-world experience.”
As a result, the partnership is a win-win for the school, its students and ProShop ERP.
“We can help facilitate the connections for students to get real world industry experience with leading manufacturing companies,” said Sansonetti. “It helps our clients but it’s also meaningful for the students who need to be able to work on real projects and solve real problems. There is a synchronicity in that we are both trying to achieve the same thing which is upskilling industry with best practices. The Purdue School of Industrial Engineering is graduating world-class students.”
About ProShop ERP
ProShop ERP delivers manufacturing software by deeply understanding our client’s challenges in order to meaningfully improve their businesses and in turn, their communities. ProShop is the industry’s only dedicated ERP/QMS/MES management software built by manufacturers for manufacturers. They are fanatical about managing every detail of machine shops in a paperless and web-based environment, including the enterprise resource management (ERP) functions necessary to run offices, the quality management system (QMS) functions to manage AS9100 systems, and the manufacturing execution system (MES) functions to ensure the shop floor is running at peak efficiency, while helping clients.
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