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And the moment when he shows me how he click a button, generate a beautifully formatted report. It was from a colleague in the IT department, he was visiting the factory, I mentioned about how one of my excel formula is not working, and he proceed to show me how the main office uses FileMaker to manage their data. When I first heard about FileMaker, I was instantly hooked. It felt like a waste of life and energy everyday. I had to spend at least an hour everyday, working through all these data, entering the same thing twice, then attempt to retrieve data from 3 places, so I can copy and paste to an excel report that wasn’t even 100% accurate. Finally, I would have to open yet another excel containing next week’s order, match the demand with our stock and…
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Then, in another excel, update our inventory level. Then, in another excel, I will have to calculate the in-out amount of each product. Enter the hand written info back to an excel file on the computer. To do that, I need to work on multiple excel spreadsheets on a daily basis, but the process was painfully repetitive.Įach day, I have to collect a hand written paper from the workers. During that time, my duty was to make sure we have enough material supply to fulfil our orders next weeks. Year 2013, I was a junior factory manager working in an industrial district in Hong Kong.
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Here is a example story of a (kind of) recent DIY Automator… In my mind, a DIY Automator is a business person who is skilful enough with FileMaker to build DIY database and automate the work, all with his own hands.