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Hoechst
Australia Ltd
The
maintenance and enhancement of the Hoechst
Engineering Management System (HEMS) - Equipment Management subsystem, and
coding batch reports written in Easytrieve/I.
The
HEMS system is an engineering information, inventory control, purchasing, and
reordering system written in COBOL using CICS/VS and DL/I, and is used by the
Hoechst head office and Altona plant complex.
Hoechst
Australia was a major pharmaceuticals and plastics manufacturing company
operating in Melbourne. The company ceased operations in the 1990's.
 | Developed COBOL
programs using CICS/VS and DL/I for the Work
Order Processing System, a new addition to the HEMS system |
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The
Work Order
Processing System is used
to allocate the costs of new projects to the many Hoechst departments,
generate work order requests, allocate labour costs, update stock inventory
online, and interface with the ITEM, SPARE PARTS, MACHINE, and EQUIPMENT
databases, as well as using its own four databases. |
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Maintained
and enhanced the existing HEMS system. |
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Modified
online screen formats using Screen Format Utility (SFU), a product similar
to BMS. |
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Created
the Work Order Processing System
user manual |