Doug Turnbull Restoration began thirty years ago in the back room of a local gun shop. As time and demand increased, a small building was built to house the handful of gunsmiths and craftsmen to perform the work. By staying true to the accurate and faithful restoration of old Winchester, Colt, Parker, Fox and other firearms, dating from 1872 until 1941, the name Doug Turnbull Restoration became synonymous with high quality. Any gun shop can refinish a firearm, but to truly restore a firearm to the same condition as when it was manufactured, over a hundred years ago takes skill, knowledge and attention to every detail.
Inc. magazine selected Shoptech Software (www.shoptech.com) as one of the fastest growing 5,000 companies in the United States. This is the fifth consecutive year that Shoptech has won the prestigious Inc 5000 award and offers proof why a firearm restoration job shop like Doug Turnbull Restoration use the superior software.
Three years ago the Turnbull Manufacturing Company of Bloomfield, NY installed Shoptech’s E2 software package. By 2009, all customer maintenance, accounting functions, job quotations, work orders, individual job steps, and invoices were integrated into one package. Instant access to important business deciding information such as Work in Process reports, actual job costs, and man-hours applied to individual job steps minimized the chances for errors, and bottlenecks in the restoration process were identified.
According to Keith VanOrman of Turnbull, “Without the E2 software and ShopTech’s excellent customer support, it is reasonably certain that these increases in business and expansion of our abilities would not have taken place.”
Work orders were no more than a note on a piece of paper. As volume increased, a spreadsheet was used to keep track of which guns needed what, and whom they belonged to. Next, a database allowed more detailed notes regarding what was being done. These data were then viewed in combination with printed pages from a spreadsheet to indicate times established for certain steps in the restoration process. The workload kept increasing, and there was no accurate way to track jobs in progress until ShopTech’s E2 software solution provided the answers.
Pocketview, the traveling command center, allows access to all critical business information, virtually anywhere in the world using a PDA. Pocket PC or mobile hand-held device allows shop floor operations and lean manufacturing team members to walk the floor collecting real-time data, send messages, and view the entire business enterprise and all mission-critical information.
Through a vast network of regional offices and training centers, and 24/7 technical service center, along with a total commitment to innovation and support, E2 is globally considered the authority of shop floor control.
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