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          Hennie says. “Two software packages – one is a 3D
        
        
          modeling and animation software package that allows
        
        
          us to develop our designs in a 3D model and to simu-
        
        
          late the operations for the customer. I think that’s very
        
        
          significant in helping the customer understand the so-
        
        
          lutions that we’re providing; enabling them to see what
        
        
          the results are and how the operation will actually
        
        
          function. The second software package is an inventory
        
        
          modeling software package that will allow us to take a
        
        
          customer’s inventory data and then, through the soft-
        
        
          ware, generate the recommended storage equipment
        
        
          type based on several criteria that we input. That crite-
        
        
          ria can be how fast or often the item moves, or certain
        
        
          physical characteristics of the item.”
        
        
          For its part, MH Equipment recently rolled out a new
        
        
          fleet management program with its own proprietary
        
        
          software. “We take a customer’s fleet and add all of
        
        
          their equipment information into our software program
        
        
          and then we’ll manage their fleet from that program,
        
        
          letting them know when their service is due, if there’s
        
        
          been any operator abuse, etc.,” Dahlhauser says. “It’s
        
        
          a very robust system that can also work in conjunction
        
        
          with some of the things that Elite does, as well, once