A MATKRIALS ACCOUNTING SYSTEM FOR AN IBM PC

We have adapted the Los Alamos MASS1 account ing system for use on an IBM PC/AT t at the Fuels Manufacturing Facility (FMF) at Argonne National Laboratory West (ANL -WEST) in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Cost of hardware and proprietary software was less than $10,000 per station. The system consists of throe stations between which accounting information is transferred using floppy disks accompany ing special nuclear material shipments. The programs were implemented in and were compiled using the proprietary software CLIPPHR.§ Modifications to the inventory can be posted In just a few minutes, and operator/compu ter interaction is nearly instantaneous. After the records are built by the user, it takes 45 seconds to post the results to the database files. A version of this system was specially adapted and is currently in use at the F'MF facil ity at Argonne National Laboratory in Idaho Falls. initial satisfaction is adequate and software and hardware problems are minimal .