OVERVIEW
Since 1994, Abstrax has focused on solving the toughest build-to-order challenges. Abstrax developed the Advanced Manufacturing Integrator, AMI, as a complete solution for selling, reselling, and manufacturing custom wood shutters. With AMI, you can select your customer's shutter options with a few clicks. AMI performs all the calculations necessary to design, price, validate, and quote your customer's order. AMI then electronically transmits the order to manufacturing and automatically distributes step-by-step instructions to each worker at each station, tailored to that exact order. Your people can deliver more complex shutters faster with virtually zero defects.
With AMI, you can improve quality, speed processing, and cut costs at every step, from sales through production. In actual use, AMI has multiplied shutter profits by more than a factor of five. No other system can even come close to AMI, because AMI is based on Abstrax's patented build-to-order technology-- the same technology Abstrax has used to create dramatic improvements in a variety of industries for some of the world's best manufacturers, like Motorola.
AMI's Sales Assistant is the most powerful tool for selling custom shutters. As you select any combination of features with a few clicks, AMI instantly performs all the necessary calculations to display and price the shutter. Change a feature and AMI will instantly do it all again. There is no longer any need for estimates, hand calculations, or order validation. Based on your manufacturing rules and product offerings, AMI precisely determines every parameter such as louver spacing, constraints on shutter size and shape, and T-post requirements. AMI will not permit invalid selections, so invalid orders never reach manufacturing.
"AMI was able to increase production, it adds flexibility, and overall it's light years ahead of all other manufacturers."
Lance Reed, President G&L Technologies
"AMI has had an incredible impact on our profitability and production. With AMI, what used to take hours now takes minutes. We now build patterns five times faster than we used to."
Dana Draper, CEO Biltmore Shutter