Case Study: Flexi-Coil achieves doubled MANMAN ERP performance and dramatic batch-time savings with Stromasys CHARON‑VAX

Using CHARON-VAX, Flexi-Coil saves time and doubles performance running MANMAN ERP

Flexi-Coil, a leading Canadian farm machinery manufacturer, was running MANMAN ERP on a VAX 4000 that had reached full capacity, causing slow performance and lengthy batch windows (full runs taking up to 30 hours). With CPU, memory, and I/O at peak demand, the IT team needed a quick, lasting alternative to avoid production bottlenecks.

Stromasys’s CHARON-VAX virtualization was evaluated and deployed on modern HP hardware, allowing Flexi-Coil to keep its existing software unchanged while replacing legacy hardware. The results: a MANMAN report dropped from 42 to 7 minutes, a 10-hour batch finished in 2.5 hours, overall performance roughly doubled, and the new virtual VAX proved remarkably stable—running a year without unscheduled downtime before routine maintenance.

Flexi-Coil

Blair Simister

Information Systems Manager