1. Evaluate your needs,
2. Compare the software features from the different software vendors,
3. Visit with the users of each software product:
     -- can the shop drawings be sent to the shop without further processing,
     -- is the shipping list complete and in your desired format,
     -- are the erection drawings complete and to your standards,

4. Select that software which will make your company the most productive.

AS YOU COMPARE DIFFERENT SOFTWARE VENDORS, PLEASE CONSIDER THESE FACTS:

1. After seeing a demonstration of the MBS Software, there has not been a single company that has obtained software from another supplier. MBS has a 100% "hit rate."
2. Metal Building Manufacturers want to continually improve their productivity. For many, this occurred when they changed software vendors. Out of nearly 200 current MBS clients, over one-third of our clients dropped another software vendor to improve their productivity with MBS. You may want to visit with some of the current MBS clients that previously used software from another software vendor. Make the correct decision the first time, you do not want to pay for software more than once.
3. No MBS client has ever dropped our software for another software vendor.

SOME BACKGROUND ON SOFTWARE FOR THE METAL BUILDING INDUSTRY
Each year MBS writes one or more news articles on the use of software for metal buildings. These articles are on timely topics of interest to people in the metal building industry and are published in the Metal Construction News. To access these articles, please click the links below.

SELECTING SOFTWARE FOR METAL BUILDING MANUFACTURERS
By Dr. James L. Jorgenson, PE, President, MBS
Dean T. Jorgenson, PE, Vice President MBS
(September 2000)

METAL BUILDING SOFTWARE INC -- OUR NAME SAYS IT ALL
Dean T. Jorgenson, PE, Vice President MBS
(May 2000)

ELIMINATING THE "BOTTLENECK"
By Dr. James L. Jorgenson, PE, President, MBS
Dean T. Jorgenson, PE, Vice President MBS
(October 1999)

BUILDER SOFTWARE THAT INCREASES SALES AND SPEEDS BUILDING DELIVERY
By Dr. James L. Jorgenson, PE, President, MBS
Dean T. Jorgenson, PE, Vice President MBS
(September 1998)