Touch-screen interfaces added to Microsoft’s Dynamics AX 2012 ERP system will be supplemented by gesture-based interface capabilities in the future.
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picking up,” Alexander said. “A customer like John Deere will pay off with a shipment, send an EDI ASN, Advanced Shipment Notice, and instead of me having a guy send P.O.s once a week or once a day, they’ll pull their EDI. If you ship 25 things a day to somebody, it eliminates a person on both sides—and the savings are huge.”
Gesture-Based Systems Coming With its new Dynamics AX ERP system introduced last year, Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, WA) has incorporated new touch-screen capabilities into its ERP package which is used in discrete, process and mixed-mode manufacturing, said Rakesh Kumar, global industry product director of manufacturing for Microsoft Dynamics ERP. “We have introduced touch-screen inputs onto AX 2012, so people can use touchscreens to manage their business with a lot more ease,” Kumar said. “This is also fueling innovations that can go into the shop-floor control. One other area, though somewhat
futuristic, where Microsoft is investing, is technolo- gies relating to gesture-based input. While it is not available today on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, we see a lot of promise for the future.” Future use of gestures might include touchless commands to con- trol equipment on an automotive assembly line or in other factory settings. “In the years to come, there will be a significant transformation in the way the shop floor is managed from a software perspective, which is very exciting,” Kumar said. “Essentially the way the data is being en- tered will change significantly in the time to come.”
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