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This brochure highlights one of the reasons why more and more data processing Service Centers are switching to
Honeywell's Series 200. There are others that will be apparent when you discuss your needs with a Honeywell
representative. Still others are being generated every day. Whatever your data processing needs -large or small,
general or specialized - Honeywell has the computers, the software, the know-how and the desire to help you
help your customers more efficiently and more economically than ever before.
JOB ESTIMATING AND CONTROL SYSTEM
Honeywell's Job Estimating and Control System is a computerized tool
designed to help Service Center management plan and control its business more effectively. The system permits an accurate assessment of
costs involved for each job, allowing management to enter realistic bids
on a highly competitive basis. Precise determination of job costs helps
management maximize profits through effective use of all its resources.
Honeywell's Job Estimating and Control System consists of Manage,
a critical path network modeling program for planning and monitoring
systems and programming efforts; Autotimer SC, a machine-use estimating program; Autolog, a comprehensive systems use and performance
reporting program. System generated output is data on which to base
accurate cost estimation; to plan and control operations; to record job
performance for management and client evaluation. Input to the system
is information readily available in each Service Center.
Copyright 1966
Honeywell Inc.
Electronic Data Processing Division
Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts 02181
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PAVING A PATH TO PROFIT
A
SYSTEMATIC
COMPUTERIZED
APPROACH
Honeywell's Job Estimating and Control System for the data processing
Service Center paves a logical, step-by-step computerized approach to
the solution of job cost estimation and control problems.
Utilizing the computer as a management tool for the operation of the
Service Center, it provides:
• Increased capabilities for the evaluation and bidding of new jobs
leading to increased business and greater profits.
• More accurate and realistic estimating and bidding of jobs reducing
the probability of unprofitable or marginal business.
• Greater management delegation of the job estimating process allowing management to devote more time to other aspects of the
business.
• More effective management planning and control through continuing evaluation of work performance and individual job profitability.
RESULTING
BENEFITS TO
THE SERVICE
CENTER
Encourages systematic thinking in the estimating process assuring that
various necessary factors are not deferred or completely overlooked
thereby resulting in realistic job bidding.
Establishes more realistic schedules because it is based on the resources
available and indicates when additional resources are necessary to meet
specific job requirements.
Enables simulation of alternate plans; therefore, problems are not as
frequent because they have been anticipated and, in many cases, solved,
thereby assuring the meeting of customer deadlines.
Reports current job status measuring personnel productivity and equipment utilization leading to a more efficient and profitable business
operation.
Provides actual performance records indicating the time span and the
actual man-hours expended on each job for customer billing purposes
as well as for refinement of future estimating efforts.
Cuts management report compiling time by providing a simple, easy-touse method for summarizing personnel and equipment performance
enabling immediate management action as well as reducing the resources
necessary for compilation.
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MANAGE
Honeywell has designed the network modeling program Manage utilizing proven PERT techniques and concepts for planning and scheduling
computer application systems. This program determines time relationships among EDP project activities, producing data which can be interpreted in terms of cost. Manage assists in planning customer jobs,
evaluating alternative approaches to job objectives, and scheduling project activities, while providing current job status data to facilitate management control.
OUTPUT
The Application Status Report is generated as program output. Manage
schedules a start date if given an end date; schedules a finish date if
given a start date. The job status is computed in terms of days ahead
of or behind the projected finish date. A report interval is established
by Service Center management according to its· own requirements.
The sample Application Status Report illustrates the initial output obtained using Manage for planning and estimating purposes. In utilizing
Manage during the implementation and control stages, the output covers
all columns of the report providing a complete current status of each job.
INPUT
For initial scheduling, jobs are analyzed and broken into specific tasks
which are assigned to individual systems or programming personnel.
Information to be entered into the Manage system includes: customer
identification; application name and description; program number and
description; additional data covering program complexity and personnel
efficiency. In order to produce the complete current status report, data
covering the percentage of individual tasks completed, with the time
elapsed for work on these tasks, is entered into the system.
HARDWARE
CONFIGURATION
The program requires a central processor with 12K memory, three
magnetic tape drives, a card reader and a printer.
PROCESSING
INPUT
Itt.gtld
HONEYWEll SERIES 200
MANAGE
OUTPUT
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APPLICATION STAtUS REPORT
FEBRUARY 1S 1965
HONEYWELL
MAPlA!;! Hoooa
COMPUTER PLANNING & CONTROL
MANAGI 11000~
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SCHEtI
STAAt
FItIlSH
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DATE
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PROG. 351
TEST
201
SUMMARY
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DATE
PAGIi
E. O. P.
TOTAL
MANDAYS
ELAPSEO
REPORTED
MAN-
MAN-
DAYS
DAYS
COMPUTED
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COMPLETE
REPORTEO
STATUS
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COMPLETE
DAYS
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BOUCHER
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PROG. 35.
TEST
20.
SUMMARY
APp~ICATtON SUMMA~Y
TOTAL • PROGRAMS
2
TotAL 'ORDERS
3080
03/01/65
03/25/65
04/14/65
03/01/65
03/24/65
04/13/65
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03/01/65
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Manage schedules and reports on three sequential Job Event Levels
covering Project Events, for each application system to be developed.
Systems Design
Programming
Testing
Program Narrative
System Flow Chart
Input/Output Chart
Control Technique
Volume and
Time Estimate
Detailed Flow Chart
Allocation of Memory
and Peripheral Storage
Coding
Keypunching
Assembly
List Subroutines, etc.
Prepare Sample Test
Desk Check
Machine Test
Operating Instructions
Procedures Write-Up
Volume Test, Prepare,
Checkout
Maintenance
Procedures
AUTOTIMER SC
Autotimer SC performs job run time determinations for Service Center
management. This program eliminates tedious, time-consuming manual
calculations normally required when timing estimates are needed. Detailed information, presented as Autotimer SC output, is essential for
production of accurate time estimates for jobs to be run. Accurate cost
assessments, in turn, are required and can be developed for effective
job bidding and control efforts.
OUTPUT
Autotimer SC produces detailed timing information including the following as shown in the accompanying chart:
Individual Run Times - Permit a detailed review and comparison
of actual versus estimated running time for the validation and
improvement of the estimating process.
Applications Run Times - Permit an advance simulation and
analysis of the throughput efficiency of planned application systems, allowing system design modifications prior to actual implementation.
Total Job Run Time - Permits the planning and scheduling of
computer workload on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
Run Time versus Available CP Time - Allows the identification
of surplus computing power leading to the consideration of multiprogramming use and running with other work.
INPUT
Simple English-language statements comprise the Autotimer SC input
format. File descriptors with specific information (size, blocking, etc.)
for each file to be timed; equipment item descriptors; and processing
descriptors for systems, applications, and single-run levels are entered
into the program on punched cards or card image tape.
HARDWARE
CONFIGURATION
Autotimer SC requires a central processor with a 16K memory, four
magnetic tape drives, a card reader, and a printer.
INPUT
PROCESSING
EQUIPMENT
,
DESCRIPTORS
HONEYWELL SERtES 200
PROCESSING
STATEMENTS
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AUTOTIMER SC
f{t.E
DESCRlPTORS
OUTPUT
• DETAILED
APPLICATION
RUN TIMES
TIMING
SU/ilMARY
TIMINGS REFE.RENC£ EouIp CONF1G A
HONEYWELL H200
PAGIi.'
SECTION TOTALS
JOB GENERAL MANUFACTUR~NG CORPORATION.
SECTION PAYROLL.
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AVERAGE
MONTHLV
HOURS USAGE
B.17
AVAILABLE CP TIME
• TOTAL
APPLICATION
OR JOB RUN
TIMES
HONEVWELL HlOO
JO$ GENERAL MANUFACTURIrilG CORPORATION>
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TotAL RUN TIME;
NAME
Te-1 TAPE
TIME CAROS
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ITEMS ell
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AVAILABLE CP TIMEt
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CP TIME
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AUTO LOG
Autolog produces detailed reports on equipment utilization, accurate
reports of jobs performed, specific equipment units involved, as well as
causes of reruns and down time. The program reduces time required to
compile operating statistics and offers data for immediate comparison
and analysis with estimates produced by Autotimer SC as well as previous
running times of similar jobs.
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OUTPUT
Autolog produces the following reports:
Customer Job Summary - Providing periodic or cumulative time
usage for each customer job for review and billing purposes.
Time Usage Report by Job Within Report Period; Summary
Usage, Performance, Idle Time, Maintenance Time, Total
Power-On Time.
Computer Usage Summary - Providing vital information to assure optimum scheduling and usage.
Scheduled Time; Machine Down Time; Selected Rerun Time,
for specified reporting periods.
Computer Performance Report - Providing statistical summary
enabling rapid analysis and correction of any noted deficiencies.
Machine Performance; Productive Time; Cause and Duration
of Non-Productive Time.
Chargeable Equipment Usage Report - providing usage information for each individual component of the computer system.
Chargeable Time for each Item of Computer Equipment in
Installation for specified reporting periods.
INPUT
Input to Autolog is taken directly from an easily maintained Machine
Logging and Layout Form kept by the computer operator. Information
from each line of the sheet is converted to a single punched card for
entry into the program.
HARDWARE
CONFIGURATION
Autolog requires a central processor with 4K memory, three magnetic
tape drives, card reader and printer.
AUTOLOG
. MachIne lQgging am:l!-ayout form
• HOW MUCH COMPUTER
TIME DID EACH JOB
REQUIRE?
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