Perle Systems Case Study
Delta Systems Provides Central Control For Administrative And
Manufacturing Operations
Perle and Delta Systems
seeing eye to eye
Delta Uses the Perle SX to Handle Admin, Retail and Manufacturing
Operations
With their unique eyeware software active in
several hundred locations across 35 states in the USA, Del ta
systems could lay claim to being the experts in turnkey computer
installations for multi-store eyeware businesses.
Such a multi-site installation is at a Utah company where
a centralized laboratory manufactures eyeglasses for 22 retail
locations. User administrative and manufacturing operation
terminals and printers are connected to an Intel pentium system
running SCO Unix at central of?ce via a Perle SX
Serial Card and RS232 connector boxes.
The adjacent retail outlet uses the Perle transparent print
facility to run off point-of-sale receipts and tray tickets.
The optical laboratory itself plugs in equipment such as the
bar code scanner network for job tracking, the pattern generator,
the frame tracer and the lens grinding generator. Accounts,
purchasing and inventory control terminals, along with several
printers, run off the remaining ports.
Perle is also at the company’s remote retail stores.
Each runs XENIX with local POS terminal and printer connectivity
being supplied by 4-port Perle Mulit-port Cards.
Delta systems have installed their software and Perle serial
connectivity in a dozen or so similar optical businesses,
some with upwards of 160 retail stores. In addition they have
also put Perle Serial Cards into areas such as
wholesale pharmaceutical operations, paper bag manufacturing,
electronics retailing, ship brokerage, furniture retailing;
even into a blueprint company.
The President of Delta Systems says: “When we started
using Perle many years ago, they were not well known in the
USA. Today, on the Intel CPU computers that we have installed,
about 90% of them have a Perle Serial Card.” |