If you're wearing it, if it's telling you time,
if you go to your doctor and get your blood pressure checked,
we're probably in it.
So Asteelflash is a premier contract manufacturer
or services provider, also more known
in EMS, or Electronic Manufacturing Services.
I don't think there's a place in the
world that we don't have a customer.
Asteelflash's challenges is really
just material availability.
This one's huge.
I mean, it's a worldwide shortage.
It's component level.
It's electronics.
On top of that, we've been hit with tariffs.
So Asteelflash today has implemented
some advanced technologies around artificial intelligence
to streamline our quoting process.
For our quoting staff to go through the vast number
of items in our bill of materials
is daunting and time consuming.
And artificial intelligence solutions can cut through that.
Where we're headed is real, real interesting
with the artificial intelligence.
A collaborative robot, you can barely touch it, and it
will stop.
You can take it by the wrist, move it to a position
and say, teach.
It's really a challenge to develop
the know-how and skills to keep up
with all the new technologies.
And it's refreshing to have a technology partner like QAD
that brings that expertise to the table.
Today the factory is moving to manufacturing 4.0.
We're connecting our shop floor equipment,
leveraging the data across all of our equipment
that is similar in each of the factories worldwide,
automating that and increasing our efficiency,
increasing our accuracy and the quality.
You will have an autonomous factory
that starts to operate very efficient
without a lot of overhead.
So we need a technology platform that
delivers the future to Asteelflash now but also
positions us for the next technology in the future.
With QAD, it's their ability to look forward
with you, even though you may not have it in full play.
So the advanced technologies for us
is a key proponent of our three- to five-year plan
that we are highly embedded in.