Shaw Millworks Goes Live with Alpha Five V8 Application

At Shaw Millworks today, we went live with a very cool web application that I built in Alpha 5 V8 to help manage our custom cabinetry and millwork shop. This web application provides :

• Tracking the submission, revisions and approvals of architectural drawings and production CAD shop drawings for custom cabinet fabrication
• Production forecasting, scheduling and progress
• Material and hardware tracking
• Invoice and payment Tracking
• Shop and field communications tracking on a per item basis

The application includes :

• A security framework that checks users credentials and allows specific users access to specific information
• A detailed real time PDF reporting mechanism with data driven highlighting to help us focus in on the issues we deem important
• Future development will include a direct link to associated CAD drawings and voice and video annotated memos associated with any item

What's really amazing is... I built this in just over a month with A5V8!

I used a lot of the new tools in A5V8. The new formatting options for grids are really awesome. The ability to set up columns, specify line breaks and use special formatting, ie; frames, etc. made it easy to display a ton of information in a clean easy to read format.

Once again ... you guys really did a great job with this release. Special thanks to you and to all of the members of the Alpha team for a truly amazing product.

You sure make me look like a hero!

Take a look at a movie overview of this application.

Shaw Millworks