ForceField SFA Application Helps Kirchner Win Top Computerworld Award!

Kirchner Corporation credits Jargon for making it possible. 

Kirchner Corporation, a leading manufacturer of custom diamond jewelry, received the Computerworld Honors Program 21^st Century Achievement Award for "Innovation In Manufacturing" at a presentation in Washington, D.C. on June 7th, 2004. The award honors Kirchner's innovative mobile sales-order-processing application, based on Jargon's mobile technology. These awards recognize the world’s most creative and innovative uses of information technology in society.

Runner ups:

Corrugated Supplies Corp. -- A midsize corrugated-materials manufacturer accepts orders from its packaging customers electronically and provides updated status right up to delivery. 

Hewlett-Packard Co. -- The computer industry's largest supply chain is consolidated onto an interstate collaborative e-marketplace, reducing cycle times and enhancing value chain veracity in a collaborative way. 

Infineon Technologies AG -- Development of a radical new manufacturing planning system, capable of handling new complexities, allows a busy manufacturing system to upgrade without disruption. 

Novalux Inc. -- Intensive simulation of fundamental physics enables the design and production of a radical new laser that can be 50 times smaller and two orders of magnitude more efficient than previous devices. 

Computerworld article

Progress Software Press Release

Pictures from the awards ceremony dinner:

Dave Kirchner acceptance speech - photo 1

Dave Kirchner acceptance speech - photo 2

Group photo of attendees from Kirchner Corporation and Perkins School for the Blind.