StrongWare for Spreadsheets. If you do not use databases at all, you can use the Spreadsheet Package.

StrongWare for Word Processors. If you've been reluctant to use your database SCOTS, then you'll discover that your StrongWare is an easy introduction to begin using it. If you do not like to use databases, then you can use the word-processing text versions (MS Word, WordPerfect, Ami Pro, Word Pro) of StrongWare StrongForms by using pages of text as database records.
You can download the *Download Demos or 15 ASCII StrongForms * ASCII(28 kb)
Likewise, if you do not use spreadsheets and do know how to use word processor tables, then you can create tables for spreadsheets, as shown in the examples in * Table If you use StrongForms with tables for calculations, then you can use separate files as database records.

Upgrading your current database. If you already use databases that are similar to one of the StrongWare databases and you want to retain the data, then you can consider:
1. merging your existing database into your StrongWare database by modifying your StrongWare database tables and forms to accomodate your database; or
2. merging your StrongWare database into your existing database tables and forms by modifying your existing database with StrongForm fields.
You can merge by either adding or inserting or deleting or modifying fields. You can work with restructuring/ modifying/ your tables either in the database or with a spreadsheet. You can then re-design your forms as desired.
If you prefer to have us, Safety Analysis Systems Co., do the merging, then tell us your desires and we'll do it for you.

1. SCOTS StrongForm Tailoring: Since StrongForms are designed for using with your SCOTS, you can customize and tailor them to suit your personal needs and desires. You can log your changes in the 1SSLOG spreadsheet that lists all 200+ StrongForms (available in the Demo Download). You are spared the onerous situation of having software that does not quite fit your needs and/or is based on code that you cannot change. As your SCOTS is updated, so is your StrongWare.
You'll find the Strongware System uses only the simplest features of your SCOTS. If you have a basic understanding of using your SCOTS, then you'll have no trouble using your Strongware.

2. Compatibility for Sharing: Strongware provides the same database and spreadsheet StrongForms for all of the supported SCOTS, so you can share your data and layouts among your workgroup partners. Any data that you create in any of the SCOTS may be viewed in the same format in any of the other supported SCOTS. If you want to share your data with a partner who uses a different SCOTS and who also uses StrongWare, then you can export your database table (or parts thereof from a findset, answer.db or dynaset) directly or as a .dbf file. Your partner can then add, append, or import your data and see it in the same screens and report it with the same reports.

3. Data and System: You can think of individual actions as objects, record them in database records, then relate them to your spreadsheet cell objects, via pre-formatted, comma-delimitted textfile reports, "Translators", that you can then import to your spreadsheets for Modelling and Planning and Budget and Tax. You are then assured that your data is the same in both forms and that no errors were made in re-entering data.

You can record Details in Database records, see your System in Spreadsheet models.

  Detail  >=> Personal, >=> Trans >=>  System Model  >=>  Operational & 
  Data        Business,                Spreadsheets       Organizational Systems
              Safety                      v   ^           
              Databases >=> Print copies, files, messages, displays  

4. Simple common features: Some common features of StrongWare are:

a. Printing. Form and report and spreadsheet StrongForms are designed with 0.5 inch margins. You can use 9- or 24-pin or inkjet or laser with letter or legal paper, with tractor or sheet feeds. Wide carriage is nice for printing large spreadsheet models in portrait or landscape.
( Note: If you don't have a wide color printer, then we'll be pleased to print your large spreasheets for you at cost. )

b. Filenames. All filenames are consistent across all brands of SCOTS:
(1.) All database files are named according to their function;
(2.) All screen and print StrongForms are named the same as the database/ table, except FoxPro;
(3.) All columnar reports names end in '..Log', such as HazLog, PrsLog, ALIVELog;
(4.) All database files used for translating to spreadsheets have filenames ending with 'SS', such as PrsSS;
(5.) All label report filenames end in '..LBL'; and
(6.) All reports for queries have a "Q" prefix.
All databases are keyed or indexed to the [???RECNBR], "???RecId:", field for sorting, filtering, finding, and querying. Your StrongWare for Access includes queries and query forms and reports; StrongWare for Paradox includes queries. (Note: StrongWare does not use SQL.) You can create record identifier 8-character mnemonics for locating files, such as:
(a.) using characters #1 and #2 for identifying a database or spreadsheet model and a subset, such as;
(b.) characters 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 for date, using ymmdd format, or truncated lastname, such as STRON, or for identifying what the record is about or sequence number or spreadsheet column-row;
(c.) character #8 alpha for strings of records in sequence, such as A, B, C, etc.

Most StrongForms have a 40-character "About" field you can use for finding and locating with plain English phrases.

c. Screens and Reports. All StrongForms are designed for VGA 16-color screens. Most of the utility databases are designed for single screens.
Several screens include OLE fields so you can insert graphics or links to spreadsheets.
Most of the StrongWare reports are designed for printing on a single page.
If you use QUERIES in Access, then you'll like the query screens and reports that give you the same screen and report designs for your queries - you are not limitted to only the table views.
Note: The example templates shown on this webpage are the word processing text templates that you can *Download To view examples of screens, click on the hotlinks for *__ Screen.
If you want to record more data than the screens provide space for, then you can use a word processor text file to contain the extra data. Your StrongWare provides reports that you can use to print to file and then open with your word processor so you can add as much as you want to, for your WorkPlan, LaPS, and HazRep.

Organization: You can organize your data with the StrongWare system of intuitively and logically arranged databases, screens, reports and spreadsheet layouts.

StrongWare consists of StrongForms for databases and tables for:

a. Four utility modules for personal or organizational use:

• Recording and reporting inventories and sales with Invntory;
  
• Recording and reporting rules and file plans with LawRules;
  
• Recording and reporting procedures and job estimates with WorkPlans;
  
• Recording and reporting training with Training; and

b. Three main modules with decision-making and modelling:

• Personal Information and Financial Management with PrsNote;
  
• Total Quality Management with Learning and Problem-Solving, LaPS; and
  
• Safety Management with Hazards and Benefits, HazBen, HazMOST, and OSHEP.

a. Annual Budget and Tax calculation and recording for;

• Personal; and
  
• Organizational.

b. Computerized Operational System Modelling for Integrated Control ("COSMIC") of:

• Personal Scenarios and Life Plans;
  
• Business Plans and structured problem-solving; and
  
• Process Safety, Job Safety, System Safety, and Operations Analysis.

c. Specialized spreadsheet StrongForms for:

• OSHA Incident Reporting (Form 200);
  
• Calculation of HazMat Inventories;
  
• EPA Form 0317 Emergency and Chemical Hazard Inventory;
  
• Job Safety Analysis, JSA; and
  
• Training.

You can click on the * Hot-links below to see more detailed examples of StrongWare.

You can record: property; investments; sales; and print summary logs, labels, invoices with * Invntory StrongForms.
To view an example of a screen, click on * Invntory Screen

You can record your rules-"Do's" and "Don'ts"- with comments as to when to use them and when not to- and filing references, like an expanded library index with * Rules
To view an example of a screen, click on *Rules Screen

You can record tasks, lesson plans, training, job estimates, or checklists, including: Equipment, Material, and Labor costs and timing for a 10-step plan with * WorkPlan .
To view an example of a screen, click on *WorkPlan Screen

You can record employee (and your) training with * Training StrongForms.
To view an example of a screen, click on *Training Screen

You can use your Personal Information Manager, * PrsNote StrongForm, for:
- logs and labels for names and addresses and phone and FAX and Email addresses;
- memos and letters and daily and weekly activity plans; and
- financial planning data you can relate to your spreadsheet budget and tax plan and life plans.

In the Personal Information and Finance module, you can estimate the probability and factors for planning and then compare with actual data for budgetting and tax and life planning and Form 1040 Schedule C, 990-T, or 1120S with * BudgeTax StrongForms..
To view an example of a budget screen, click on *Personal Notes Screen

You can do your budget and tax planning, including smart calculations of bank balances and fund balances.
To view an example of a tax screen, click on *BudTax Screen
To view an example of a screen, click on *BudTaxT Screen

You can do your life and estate planning, laying out your goals with alternatives in a combination of personal database records and spreadsheet model, * LiFlo StrongForms.

PrsNote also includes a sub-module for Human Resources data such as Job Descriptions, Labor Costs, and Payroll in * Personnel Data

StrongWare gives you a better way to manage your Total Quality, TQ, so you can organize your actions, do structured problem-solving, and model your organization in spreadsheet flow diagrams with * Learning and Problem-Solving, LaPS
To view an example of a screen, click on *Learning and Problem-Solving Screen

As an option that's said to double efficiency, you can use a 4-step structured problem-solving with your LaPS, based on matching TQM team members to the four steps with according to their * Learning Styles.
To view an example of an LSI screen, click on *LSI Screen

Planning Ahead and Deciding: LaPS provides you with smart calculations so you can do Life-cycle cost trade studies for strong decisions with provisions for quality, production quantities, and scheduling.

You can strengthen your planning and decision-making in the Total Quality and Safety modules by using StrongWare for describing and comparing existing situations and problems with alternative solutions and effects (including implementation or start-up costs).

StrongWare provides for analyzing in terms of Probability of Occurrence multiplied by the sum of factors:
• Money Cost;
• Output Revenues;
• Safety;
• Time or schedule;
• Special Factors; and
• Quality Metrics.

You can relate your LaPS to a spreadsheet StrongForm, similar to BudTax,
* Organizational Budget OrgBudgt .

OrgBudgt is laid out with rows for Schedule C items and gives you automatic smart calculation of:
• planning estimates and actuals (translated from your LaPSMOST entries);
• yearly changes in assets and liabilities and equities;
• monthly income and expenses;
• bank balances;
• quarterly and yearly estimate and actual totals; and
• calculated Schedule C or 990-T or 1120S line items for tax planning.

You can relate your records to create Computerized Organizational System Models of Integrated Control, * Modeling .

You can survey TQM stakeholders and poll taxpaying voters for their preferences in dollar terms with use A Line Item Voting System, * ALIVESys StrongForms.

You can manage your Occupational Safety and Health, OSHA, and Environmental programs with * OSHEP StrongForms.:
• Material Safety Data Sheets in either OSHA Form 74 or ANSI formats;
• Hazardous Materials inventorying/ Labelling;
• OSHA Forms 101, 200;
• Threshold Planning Quantities;
• Emergency and Hazardous Chemical Inventories (EPA Form 0317);
• hazard reports; and
• Program Evaluation Profiles.
• Job Safety Analysis, JSA

HazMOST has screen and report StrongForm for:
• FMEA form per SAE J-1739 and QS-9000;
• NASA per V.1710; and
• Department of Defense per MIL-STD 882.

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