A blog post
Custom vs. COTS (Commercial-off-the-shelf)
I am talking about software solutions in the manufacturing space. This is a constant battle in our field. There is a happy medium somewhere…larger organizations want standards so they can train people. Smaller organizations usually build custom solutions out of VBA macros and small applications their in-house IT folks know how to write.
At the end of the day, every manufacturing software solution has to have customization in order to work the way the customer works. The key is to build a solution that more than one person can own, maintain and improve.
