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Aging Systems Sustainment and Enabling
Technologies (ASSET) Status Briefing Object
Czar - Virtual Manufacturing Enterprise (Oz-VME)
Capabilities 18 December 2006
KBE Software, Inc.
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KBE ASSET VED Objectives

• Replicate the ASSET Virtual Enterprise
  Development (VED) Model
• Problem Part Tracking
• E-Commerce
• Buyer, Contractor and Small Manufacturing
  Enterprise Collaboration
• Expand the VED and Portfolio of Manufacturing
  Capabilities
• Provide Solutions to Problem or Non-Procurable
  Parts Listed on DLA Websites
• Provide Support to Source Approved SMEs
  Responding to Problem Part Solutions
• Work with TechSolve and AIM Center to Establish
  an Ohio Virtual Enterprise Development Center
  (VEDC).

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Project Status

• 61 JOBS (Part Solicitations) previously loaded
  into Oz-VME System were archived (newly developed
  feature) based on OSU direction
• Associated Pictures, Drawings and Textual
  Technical/History Data for all Parts also
  archived
• User Accounts and Supporting FSC Correlations for
  114 Oklahoma, 73 Georgia and 22 Ohio
  Manufacturers Identified by OSU, MERC and KBE
  entered into the Oz-VME Database
• Updated the Manufacturer Capabilities page to
  allow multiple FSC codes to be associated with a
  manufacture all at once thus considerably
  reducing the time it takes to add new
  manufacturers to the database
• Updated Oz-VME on-line Help file to Reflect All
  Changes to the Software
• Administered Operational Web Server Running in
  KBE Facility in Centerville, OH
• Provided Telephone and Live Training/Demonstration
  s to MERC and Ohio Manufacturing Company
  Representatives

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Ohio VEDC Status

• August 2006 - Conducted a mentoring/training
  session with representatives from Trident
  Precision a small manufacturing company in
  Dayton, OH. Provided a comprehensive overview of
  the ASSET program, the procedures to register
  with government websites and obtain solicitations
  and technical data, and provided training on the
  Oz-VME software.
• September 2006 - Conducted a mentoring/training
  session with representatives from Projects
  Unlimited, Inc., an Ohio based aerospace and
  electronics company that is ISO 90012000 and
  AS9100 certified. Projects Unlimited, Inc., is
  willing to bid on the development of Technical
  Data Packages for DLA.
• October 2006 Attended the Dayton Tooling and
  Manufacturing Association (DTMA) manufacturers
  conference held at the Dayton Airport Convention
  Center in Dayton, OH. The purpose for attending
  the conference was to identify additional
  candidates for participation in the ASSET
  program.
• October 2006 - Conducted a mentoring/training
  session with representatives from Advanced
  Manufacturing Technologies PLL. Advanced
  Manufacturing Technologies PLL inquired about
  developing Tech Data Packages for several parts
  currently contained in the Oz-VME database. KBE
  forwarded these requests for information to Mr.
  Bob Goodloe.
• KBE currently working with TechSolve and Sinclair
  Community College to help promote ASSET in Ohio

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Ohio VEDC Issues

• Our mentoring efforts have identified Ohio
  manufacturers interested in participating in the
  ASSET Program, however, the lack of parts
  available for them to bid on has left the
  manufacturers frustrated and has caused them to
  ask -

Wheres The Parts?