Anyone familiar with DBA Manufacturing software?
Anyone familiar with DBA Manufacturing software?
(OP)
Has anyone here used or have knowledge of this software?
http://www.dbamanufacturing.com/ especially if in combination with SolidWorks being the main source of data from its BOMs (Excel)
Can anyone recommend a better product in the same price range?
http://www.dbamanufacturing.com/ especially if in combination with SolidWorks being the main source of data from its BOMs (Excel)
Can anyone recommend a better product in the same price range?






RE: Anyone familiar with DBA Manufacturing software?
You would need to format like Parent P/N, P/N, Qty. It can also contain reference designators, etc.. But I don't recall the details using those. You can dump multiple items into a file to import, so you don't have to do one at a time.
For its price, I don't know if there is anything else that does the same stuff for BOM, job routing, purchasing, etc... It's pretty powerful actually.
RE: Anyone familiar with DBA Manufacturing software?
It's a good program for a small size manufacturer.
Solid Edge V19 SP1 on WinXP SP2
RE: Anyone familiar with DBA Manufacturing software?
Solid Edge V19 SP1 on WinXP SP2
RE: Anyone familiar with DBA Manufacturing software?
toffeet ... That's the conclusion I had come to.
What stage of implementation are you at?
What 'special' requirements are there from a SW point of view?
How helpful/good is the support?
RE: Anyone familiar with DBA Manufacturing software?
We are a relative small manufacturer of agricultural equipment, meaning low volumes huge BOM’s. My main responsibility is design and development but because of my financial management background I am also very involved with the implementation of DBA.
Implementation stage: I am almost done with the configuration setup (users, tax system,) the next step will be to import our list of customers, suppliers, stock and BOM’s. The importing process is quite easy from Excel. It’s a matter of getting all the information into Excel.
Special requirements: You might have noticed that I use Solid Edge, no huge difference from Solidworks. As long as you can create BOM’s in Excel format everything should be OK. Just be very sure that the columns of your BOM is consistent.
Support: Well, we are in South Africa. Their responses to my emails were very good and so are all the PDF manuals. The installation and the server setup were quite easy.
Another thing I like about DBA is that you can keep the manufacturing GL accounts separate from the financial GL accounts. That makes the implementation a lot simpler and more flexible.
Solid Edge V19 SP1 on WinXP SP2
RE: Anyone familiar with DBA Manufacturing software?
The nice features I thought were neat are the ability to attach a picture to an item and quickly generate catalogs of items that also include the picture. Additionally each item can have what appeared to be unlimited number of files linked to it. So we linked various Acrobat files to item numbers. The MRP system seemed reasonable too. You could generate a requirement based on job orders and have it automatically create POs or quote requests to primary vendors (it could group all items by primary vendor) which is useful for thing like hardware and small electrical components.
They seem pretty good at taking suggestions even though they may not always be able to implement them quickly. The other nice thing about the program is it has a built-in report writer similar to Crystal Reports, although not quite as advanced. I was able to create many custom reports this way.