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BackgroundBackground

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 WeighingAutomated Weighing

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.
BizTermBizTerm

BizTerm

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

Crusader

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

Dough Consistency

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

EDI Server

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

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 ExplorerEnterprise Explorer

Enterprise Explorer

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

Environmental Monitor

Environmental Monitoring used in coolstores and greenhouses.
MVMirrorMVMirror

MVMirror

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

Summary of early projects and clients
Production MonitoringProduction Monitoring

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 TreatmentTimber Treatment

Timber Treatment

Automation of a timber pressure treatment plant for the preservation of timber.
Energy ManagementEnergy Management

Energy Management

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

This server product provides B2B electronic document exchange including e-mailed purchase orders, invoices and statements, and various graphically printed documents.  This product includes some workflow logic similar to Microsoft BizTalk Server.  Although since re-written by Peter Kenyon, I wrote the original B2B EDI code that this .Net product was built on.

EDI Server monitors a nominated folder that an application places XML documents in for processing.  When processing a document, a transformation is applied to it to convert it into an appropriate format, then delivers it to a subsystem which will transfer it to its destination (generally a customer’s EDI system).

These actions are controlled by fields within the XML file.  A field named ACTION specifies the delivery system to be used, and another named TRANSFORM specifies the transformation.  Other fields represent parameters for use by the delivery system and / or transformation.

Currently 5 delivery systems exist:

  • SMTP - The SMTP delivery system delivers documents via SMTP email.
  • HTTP - The HTTP delivery system delivers documents by HTTP post.
  • FTP - The FTP delivery system delivers to an FTP drop directory.
  • FileSys - The FileSys deliver system saves the document to a local directory.
  • Print - The Print delivery system prints the document to a Windows printer.

Transformations available include PDF and EDIFACT.

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