Medical Device manufacturers are under constant pressure to ensure they are delivering parts on time, and of the highest quality. To further challenge the industry, Medical Device manufacturers must comply with both their customers and the industry regulators’ stringent requirements. These pressures are driving medical device manufacturers to look for new ways to reduce costs, improve quality, and become more efficient on the shop floor.
Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.
Epicor Financial Planner (EFP) is a robust, financial budget planning solution, featuring a web-based interface as well as an Excel add-in, integrated with both Kinetic on-premises and cloud-deployed systems. EFP offers a workflow-based, online collaboration for budget planning, consolidated reporting, drill-downs, and more. Watch this 3-minute overview video on EFP highlighting the key capabilities.
Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.
The concept of a “Smart Factory” has become a reality for manufacturers. In today’s Industry 4.0 world we must have a system that can capture more information, faster. With the Epicor Kinetic Advanced MES Machine Interface Unit (MIU), you can collect machine and process data in real time and connect to virtually any machine, without having to rely on equipment that is OPC compliant.
Benefits of the Epicor Kinetic Advanced MES Machine Interface Unit
The Advanced MES Connected Factory Machine Interface Unit (CF-MIU) is an industrial-strength data collection device conceived, developed, and manufactured by Epicor, and was designed along the lines of a SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system. The term SCADA generally refers to a system that monitors machines, groups of machines, or large cells of manufacturing equipment.
Much of the control is performed automatically by the MIU, however, there are host control functions that permit overriding this autonomous control through supervisory actions or intervention. For example, the MIU can control the output reject chute based on various conditions and processes. Other benefits include:
Continues to collect data during network outages
Connects to any machine
Control your machine when there are process violations detected
Sample at 2000 per second
The MIU is ensuring that every part is manufactured according to engineering specs provided at the host. Its main purpose is to collect production and process information from the manufacturing machine, store, and transmit that data in real-time to the server computer.
The MIU can interface with non-OPC PLCs on the factory floor as well as read its own internal set of analog and digital inputs. The data acquisition begins here through meter readings, level indicators, pressure and temperature status readings, etc., which are then forwarded to the SCADA engine on the MIU. Data is then compiled, and formatted, various reduction analysis equations are executed, and outputs are engaged if needed. In real-time, the operator can make supervisory decisions to adjust or override normal processes and procedural functions.
Advanced MES Connected Factory Machine Interface Unit Technology
The new CF-MIU takes advantage of the latest technology in computer hardware design and offers advancements from almost every standpoint that allow you to connect your factory floor like never before. Instead of soldering input boards onto the motherboard, the new MIU uses plug-n-play input boards that allow the MIU to grow as your needs change. Any interruption in network service is covered by a much larger cache that takes us from storing hours of data to days. 2 USB ports are available for remote network connections such as for a mouse or a keyboard.
Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.
The new CF-MIU takes advantage of the latest technology in computer hardware design and offers advancements from almost every standpoint that allow you to connect your factory floor like never before. Instead of soldering input boards onto the motherboard, the new MIU uses plug-n-play input boards that allow the MIU to grow as your needs change. Any interruption in network service is covered by a much larger cache that takes us from storing hours of data to days. 2 USB ports are available for remote network connections such as for a mouse or a keyboard.
Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.
This year’s Insights 2021 conference revealed a lot about the nature of manufacturing in the current climate of remote work requirements, security vulnerabilities, and abundant disruption. Now, more than ever before, the benefits of cloud ERP for manufacturing alleviate the effects of the unexpected change to help businesses recover, excel, and grow.
According to a 2021 Epicor Industry Insights Report, which polled1,628 respondents worldwide in the Distribution, Retail, and Manufacturing industries, 82% of respondents agreed that the pandemic motivated their business to migrate IT solutions to the cloud and 85% agree that Cloud is helping them deal with the impact of COVID-19.
Why Manufacturers Choose Epicor Kinetic in Cloud
The more than 1600 respondents in Epicor’s report provided their reasons for making the switch from on-premise ERP deployment to Cloud ERP. Among the most frequent answers were:
Improve cybersecurity
Grow through technology
Get and remain current with releases
Avoiding hardware costs and risks
Achieving business continuity
Limited IT resources
Part of Leadership Strategy
Facilitating expansion goals through scalability
Remote Work requirements
Compete more effectively
Business Value of Cloud ERP for Manufacturing
Staying current with the pace of innovation is a core tenant of Epicor Kinetic in Cloud. Each Kinetic release allows manufacturers to leverage the latest elements of Kinetic towards their business goals.
Cybersecurity is a topic on every business leader’s mind these days. Businesses can pour resources into IT, but these individuals are then spread ever thinner when it comes to driving high-value business initiatives. Kinetic in Cloud comes with world-class security tackled from both ends by Epicor and Microsoft Azure, where cloud deployments are hosted.
By simplifying their technology stack, businesses also reap the benefit of better cost outcomes, more predictable spending, and quicker time-to-value. Not only this, but these businesses reduce their environmental impact, advance their mobile capability, and encourage a collaborative, global workforce.
In summary:
Advancing your industry through digital innovation will position your business as a thought leader.
Competitors will take note of the business’ intelligent technology spending habits.
Customers will appreciate your dedication to service and the security of their data.
Employees will be confident they are supported by an organization that sees value in implementing the leading industry technology, which equips staff with valuable skills.
Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.
Modern endpoint protection is designed to provide security against the latest threats no matter where the endpoint sits. The Epicor Security Suite Capture Client, SonicWall®, protects your business endpoints from modern threats.
Capture Client’s integration with the Epicor Kinetic Capture Security Center creates a single pane of glass across network and endpoint security operations for centralized control of attack visualization, rollback and remediation, device control, and application vulnerability intelligence.
Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.
Modern endpoint protection is designed to provide security against the latest threats no matter where the endpoint sits. The Epicor Security Suite Capture Client, SonicWall®, protects your business endpoints from modern threats.
Capture Client’s integration with the Epicor Kinetic Capture Security Center creates a single pane of glass across network and endpoint security operations for centralized control of attack visualization, rollback and remediation, device control, and application vulnerability intelligence.
Why Choose Epicor Security Suite Capture Client?
The SonicWall Capture Client offers best-of-breed, next-generation antivirus protection with built-in autonomous endpoint detection and response. Not only does Capture Client excel in offering effective threat protection, but the synergy with the SonicWall platform also allows for increased visibility and protection both on and off-network. Help ensure your security is boundless with Capture Client’s protection and centralized management.
The ever-growing threat of ransomware and other malware-based attacks has proven that client protection solutions cannot be measured based solely on endpoint compliance. Traditional antivirus technology uses a long-embattled signature-based approach, which has failed to match the pace of emerging malware and evasion techniques.
Additionally, with the proliferation of telecommuting, mobility, and device portability, there is a dire need to deliver consistent protection and web policy enforcement for endpoints anywhere.
SonicWall Capture Client is a unified endpoint offering multiple protection capabilities. With a next-generation malware protection engine powered by SentinelOne®, Capture Client applies advanced threat protection techniques, such as machine learning, multi-engine sandbox integration, and system rollback.
The SonicWall cloud-based management console and global dashboard give MSSPs a snapshot into the health of their tenants within a global view. Administrators can see the health of each tenant which is measured by the number of infections, vulnerabilities present, the version of Capture Client installed, and what and who is being blocked the most by Content Filtering. The dashboard can distinguish which devices are online and operating as well.
The management console also functions as an investigative platform to help identify the root cause of detected malware threats and provides actionable intelligence about how to prevent them from recurring.
Capture Client supports the Windows, Windows Server, macOS, and Linux operating systems.
Epicor Security Suite Capture Client Features
The Epicor Security Suite Capture Client is your next-generation endpoint protection to defend your business from modern cyber threats. The functionality of this solution includes:
Independent cloud-based management
Synergizes with SonicWall firewalls
Security policy enforcement
Continuous behavioral monitoring
Highly accurate determinations achieved through machine learning
Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.
KBMax Visual CPQ is redefining e-commerce for highly configurable products. The platform can easily handle complex business rules with a no-code engine called Snap that’s easy to learn and maintain. It also offers visualization, real-time pricing, CAD automation, and website embedding. This end-to-end solution can result in an awesome buying experience, a faster sales cycle, and a more efficient manufacturing process.
What is CPQ?
For those unfamiliar with the concept of a visual product configurator like KBMax, CPQ stands for Configure, Price, Quote. This CPQ software aims to reduce inefficiencies in the sales process and minimize errors and mistakes in quoting customers with complex product options.
Why CPQ?
CPQ It’s the quickest and easiest way to configure, visualize, price, and quote your complex products within minutes.
CPQ + B2B ecommerce
CPQ allows businesses to empower customers to complete the purchase of a product after it’s been configured. This enhances the shopping experience, improves conversion rates, and aids the sale.
It’s important to keep things in perspective and consider that in this day in age, your customers expect self-service now. 62% want a more convenient buying process and 58% expect a more digital experience.
Advanced & Visual CPQ
KBMax delivers a visual and simplified buying experience for complex products.
The platform can easily handle complex business rules with a no-code engine called Snap that’s easy to learn and maintain.
Offering visualization, real-time pricing, CAD automation, and website embedding, the end-to-end solution results in an awesome buying experience, a faster sales cycle, and a more efficient manufacturing process.
Connecting the Shopping Cart to the Shop Floor
The Epicor + KBMax End-to-End Solution helps businesses digitally transform. KBMax helps you shorten the sales cycle and eliminate manufacturing bottlenecks and errors by:
• Making it easy to visually and digitally sell configurable products with an intuitive configurator
• Handling the most complex business rules with a no-code engine
• Ensuring accuracy and efficiency during the sales and manufacturing process through workflows, CAD, and document automation
• Enabling new sales channels: Sales reps, distributors, partners, and direct customers digitally
“Combining KBMax CPQ with Epicor ERP helps us deliver a visual & immersive buying experience that syncs with our back-end systems.”
Troy Theobald
Software Business Analyst, Stellar Industries Inc.
Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.
KBMax Visual CPQ is redefining e-commerce for highly configurable products. The platform can easily handle complex business rules with a no-code engine called Snap that’s easy to learn and maintain. It also offers visualization, real-time pricing, CAD automation, and website embedding. This end-to-end solution can result in an awesome buying experience, a faster sales cycle, and a more efficient manufacturing process.
KBMax Visual CPQ Benefits for Manufacturers
Providing customers and prospects with a real-time product configuration tool improves the buyer experience and drives business performance in several ways, including:
105% Increase in deal size
40% Increase in conversion rate
38% Faster sales cycle
168% Increase in annual sales
35% Increase in production
KBMax Visual CPQ Efficiency
KBMax helps you shorten the sales cycle and eliminate manufacturing bottlenecks and errors by:
Making it easy to visually and digitally sell configurable products with an intuitive configurator
Handling the most complex business rules with a no-code engine
Accuracy and efficiency during the sales and manufacturing process through workflows, CAD, and document automation
Enabling new sales channels: Sales reps, distributors, partners, and direct customers digitally
KBMax Visual CPQ Functionality
The Epicor + KBMax End-to-End Solution:
Digital Selling: KBMax enables companies to create an information-rich and immersive buying experience for highly configurable products. The more complex, the better
Advanced CPQ: KBMax takes it another step with visualization, complex configuration, dynamic pricing, manufacturing automation, and omnichannel selling
eCommerce: Epicor’s eCommerce solution enables the customer to complete the purchase
Connectivity: Epicor ERP enables vital connectivity points across inventory, costs, pricing, and customer data
Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.
KBMax® is redefining CPQ and eCommerce for highly configurable products. The platform can easily handle complex business rules with a no-code engine called Snap that’s easy to learn and maintain. It also offers visualization, real-time pricing, CAD automation, and website embedding. This end-to-end solution can result in an awesome buying experience, a faster sales cycle, and a more efficient manufacturing process.
Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.
