|
About Us
More than two decades ago, Elie Sneward and
Jack McDaniel, veterans at Thurman Scale,
had a vision of using computers and
electronics in the weighing industry for
data collection and business management.
Seizing the moment in 1986, they founded
Interface Logic Systems.
“Jack and I brought along Charlie Libicki
and Sharon Mathews from Thurman, as part of
the original team,” says Elie. “It was a lot
of hard work to build the company.
The company’s first focus was customized
heavy capacity scale software, initially
marketing to coal mining and preparation.
“One of the advantages over the competition
was our ability to customize the software to
do things differently for each client,” Elie
recalls. “You might have five or six
aggregate companies located in the same
geographical area and each one would do
business differently. We became known for
customizations done quickly. We even did
some customized software in Chinese for a
client in Hong Kong.”
Experience with the initial customers
benefitted later ones.
“One thing that improved our software was
that the customizations became part of the
new system standard," Elie says. “Today’s standard package ‘as is’ can do nearly anything a customer
wants. We also understood the importance of
service — this is the beginning of a real
relationship with the client."
ILS was the first vendor to introduce RFID
unattended weighing to the industry.
“One client wanted to run at night,” Elie
remembers. “So we put a tag on a vehicle and
they started weighing unattended as a test.
We started with card readers at Peabody Coal
in five locations. A vice president called
and said he was losing a lot of coal because
of the way drivers were swiping cards. We
proposed RFID to automate the process and
the losses stopped. From that, we started to
implement site access control at night, thus
we could establish which truck would arrive
at what time.”
Elie is semi-retired; Charlie and Sharon are
still part of ILS today, 23 years later.
In 2006, a group of employees acquired ILS
from the founders. ILS today is comprised of
industry professionals with more than a
century’s experience in the business, whose
objective is to ensure that the customers’
goals are met on budget, on time, every
time.
Based in Columbus, Ohio, ILS supports
customers across North America and abroad.
ILS has sold solutions across the United
States, Canada, South America, the Caribbean
and Taiwan. Industry verticals served
include solid waste management, coal,
aggregate & asphalt, recycling, timber products,
steel, farm applications, rail cars and
property access control. Customers range
from small single-site independent
operations to multi-scale, multi-location
organizations in the public and private
sectors.
ILS’s ScaleQ weigh-in/weigh-out system holds
NTEP certification issued by the National
Conference on Weights and Measures.
Continual enhancement is the watchword at
ILS. Since the beginning, new features and
expanded functionality have been added to
the products.
Today’s mission is to design, develop and
deliver customer-oriented yard management
software and hardware solutions that improve
productivity, profitability, security,
accuracy and reliability.
Interface Logic Systems original commitment
to service remains true today.
|
