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Background

Alan Miles has provided a wide range of computer related products and services as an innovator, developer and IT Manager for small to medium businesses.

Automated Weighing

Automated Weighing - various applications in dairy and meat industries. Automated milk powder weighing and packaging applications. Convenient weighing, grading and record keeping in meat processing.

BizTerm

BizTerm™ is a telnet terminal emulator compatible with Windows 7 specifically designed for Pick Systems® D3® multidimensional database.

Crusader

Crusader is an integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and financial management solution.

Dough Consistency

Dough Consistency Controller that automatically adjusts for water content in bread dough.

EDI Server

Business to business electronic document exchange including e-mailed purchase orders, invoices and statements, and various graphically printed documents.

Email Services

An e-mail services facility that allows e-mails to be scheduled on a regular basis, to deliver a wide range of reports.

Enterprise Explorer

Enterprise Explorer™ is a business intelligence tool that is intuitive, flexible, comprehensive, and quick to use.

Environmental Monitor

Environmental Monitoring used in coolstores and greenhouses.

MVMirror

MVMirror is a real-time bidirectional gateway between D3 and SQL Server databases.

Older Projects

Summary of early projects and clients

Production Monitoring

This system was an early and very successful attempt to automate specific manufacturing business processes and monitoring not just the rate of production, but the reasons for and period of down-time.

Timber Treatment

Automation of a timber pressure treatment plant for the preservation of timber.

Energy Management

Automated control of energy usage to reduce cost while maintaining asdequate environmental conditions and production processes.

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Automated Weighing

These systems were supplied to the steel, quarrying, dairy and meat industries during the 1980s, and combined product weighing with automated controls that ensured correct weight and / or automated recording.

In addition, I became familiar with numerous aspects of the dairy processing, meat processing, kiwifruit and apple storage, textile, clothing, plastics, steel, and other manufacturing industries.