The KS/MO/OK/NTX VISUAL User Group will hold their next meeting in person at Taylor Value in Oklahoma on March 23. If you’re interested in attending, please confirm your registration to Ken Hood @ kmhood@cox.net.
We look forward to seeing you on March 23.
Meeting Location:
Taylor Valve Technology, Inc.
8300 SW 8th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73128
www.taylorvalve.com
With over 100 U.S. and foreign patents and over 60 years of service, Taylor Valve Technology, and its Rupture Pin brand, is a leading manufacturer of high quality safety relief valves, back pressure valves, chokes, mud and frac valves plus many other valve products for the oil and gas industry.
AGENDA
9:30 am to 3:00 pm CT
9:30 – 10:00 Welcome and Introductions – With consideration of COVID protocols attendance will be limited to 25 people so it will be important to get your registration in early. If needed this user group may be converted to a virtual meeting if needed.
10:00 – 10:45 Site Tour
A plant Tour of Taylor Valve Technology (closed toed shoes and safety glasses required). We will see how they use Visual in their day to day operations. They have Visual version 9.0.8 SP5 in place. They have the Shop Floor Mobile application operational and in use on the shop floor labor tracking. They are in the process of implementing the material tracking side of Shop Floor Mobile.
10:45 – 12:00 Visual Enterprise Product Review and future plans
Rich will provide us with the current state of Visual version 10.0.0 SP3 and how users are adapting to it. He will cover the future product life cycle to and what we will see coming down the road.
We will cover the use of Visual Shop Floor Mobile and its future.
We will cover the use of Visual Quality (IQM – Infor Quality Management) and how it is being enhanced.
Richard Lagoy, Infor Visual Product Director
12:00 – 12:45 Enhancement request process and group requests (Lunch is going to be provided during the presentation)
With Rich onsite and as a moderator, we will review and document, what are the best processes for submitting enhancement requests for products. From this we should be able to determine a list of requests that all attendees can walk away with and turn at each of their respective sites. There is always power in numbers and we a group can prioritize some items from each of the attending companies. User Sites
12:45 – 1:30 Managed Services and Visual in the Cloud
Technology is the foundation of your business. If your infrastructure doesn’t work, how can you expect your business applications to? At ICG we provide the technology foundation and solutions your business needs to succeed. This presentation will show you how we provide these tools to our customers and show you how you can deploy you Visual applications in the Cloud environment.
Len Ashley, Director of Operations, Innovative Consulting Group
Innovative Consulting Group, Inc (ICG) – A Manufacturing Performance and Technology Company.
ICG is a process-first oriented group with a focus on the Manufacturing Sector. We are experts in ERP selection and implementation. ICG provides Professional Services for Visual, Fourth Shift and Infor SyteLine ERP systems along with Private ERP Hosting and ERP Managed Services. ICG delivers impeccable IT services to a variety of industries, but specialize in manufacturing and banking. Our services Include Data Center & IT infrastructure, IT Professional Services, Thin Client Computing / VDI, IT Managed Services. We have decades of experience and deliver white glove customer service and top-notch results every time.
1:30 - 2:15 Physical Inventory Processing
This presentation will review the setup and processing of a physical inventory within Visual. There are a number of pre-processes that will be reviewed and the actual process for initializing a count, entering count tickets, recount of tickets, audit of transactions and the close of the count. Taylor just completed their physical inventory in January 2022 and can provide other users with insight on what they see as best practices.
Ken Hood, Manufacturing and Operations Consultant
2:15 - 2:30 Visual versions 10.0.0 SP upgrade review
With the release of Version 10 there are some specific updates that users need to be aware of in this release. You will need to request a new product key code for your site. There are additional server and SQLserver requirements that will be discussed during the presentation.
Ken Hood, Manufacturing and Operations Consultant
2:30 - 3:00 Wrap up
Final questions and group review. Discuss date, time, place and topics for next meeting.
