Lilly Software Adds Interface to MTI's Costimator

Lilly Software Associates (Hampton, NH) announced a new interface between the company's VISUAL Manufacturing ERP system, and Costimator, a computer-aided cost-estimating system from Manufacturers Technologies Inc. (MTI; West Springfield, MA).

While most ERP users need estimates based only on setup and run times, many manufacturers require estimates based on additional detail, such as the gage of steel for a given job. The Costimator export feature downloads cycle times, labor times and rates, part costs, outside vendor costs and other up-to-date data on any job from the estimating system to Lilly's VISUAL Manufacturing.

"A number of our [VISUAL Manufacturing] users wanted the precision in estimating of systems like Costimator. This interface closes the loop between the two," says Lilly Software Product Marketing Manager John Argue.

The latest versions of MTI's Costimator are compatible with Oracle, Microsoft SQLServer and other leading client/server databases. The company's comprehensive databases of materials, machine times and labor standards are easily tailored to virtually any manufacturing environment, including machining, welding, mechanical assembly and electronic assembly applications.