About us
MIE Solutions
Production control software for the entire
manufacturing sector.
MIE was built from the manufacturing floor up. It started when our founder wrote the system to help his father run his machine shop better—giving us a practical understanding of how work moves from quote to production to final margin.
Nearly 30 years later, we’ve stayed true to those roots, focused on the job shops, metal fabricators, and manufacturers we were built to serve. We know the shop floor because we’ve walked it—and today, more than 500 manufacturers around the world trust MIE to help run theirs.
Who We Are
MIE Solutions is a leading provider of production control software for the entire manufacturing sector. The software, MIE Trak Pro, incorporates Estimating, RFQs, Work Orders, Purchasing, MRP, Stock Control, Costing, Scheduling, Reporting, Optional Shop Floor Data Capture, Shipping and Logistical Control, and a full Accounting module, which can replace or work alongside many third-party accounting package(s).
Our Mission
To apply advanced technology to improve productivity and quality in manufacturing.
At MIE Solutions, we do not compromise product, quality, or service.
We strive to satisfy our customer’s every reasonable requirement with speed, courtesy, and honesty.
MIE Trak Pro is a market-leading software for sheet metal fabricators, precision engineers, and discrete manufacturers. It can be adapted to incorporate any manufacturing process as required, and offers a complete solution for the entire business. Our services include on-site and online training, full product support, on-site consultative services, and custom development work.
If you are a discrete manufacturer and believe MIE Trak Pro is a product you may be interested in, please request a Discovery Call using the link below. We offer a no-pressure Discovery Call to help you learn about the benefits and answer your general questions about ERP software and its efficiency-improving potential for your team.
Bill Haynes
Bill Haynes is the General Manager for MIE Solutions. Haynes joined the business in 2024 to lead the MIE Solutions operations and is responsible for developing and executing the strategic, operational, and financial plans that drive the profitability and growth of MIE Solutions.
Prior to joining MIE Solutions, Haynes was a Vice President for Forterro’s Abas business unit where he led Abas operations in North America. Before Forterro, Haynes worked for companies, such as Allied Solutions, Consona Corporation, and Aptean (formed with the merger of Consona and CDC Software). While at Consona/Aptean, Haynes was part of a leadership team that grew annual revenue from $30 million to just under $200 million.
Haynes also spent several years in supply chain management, designing and implementing simulation-based manufacturing scheduling systems for Fortune 500 companies. Haynes also spent more than 5 years as the Production Manager for a job shop that supplied the Aerospace industry.
Haynes brings more than 25 years of technology/software experience to MIE Solutions, with extensive experience in the manufacturing and financial services industries.
Haynes has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.
David Ferguson
David Ferguson has over 30 years of experience in the manufacturing and fabrication industry. He has assisted hundreds of manufacturing companies over the years, helping and guiding them to be more efficient and cost-effective. Prior to founding MIE Solutions, David worked with his father at a sheet metal shop that his father was shop floor manager of. His journey into the world of manufacturing software began in his teens and continued as he partnered with METALSOFT, Inc. to sell and support his own quoting and costing software to many small- to medium-size sheet metal fabricators.
David Ferguson has his Masters in Computer Science and Mathematics from California State University, Long Beach. In 2007, alongside business partner, Donald Clutter, they started MIE Solutions to continue helping manufacturers and job shops become more efficient and profitable with the use of MRP/ERP software, specifically, the MIE Trak software.
Today, David and the team at MIE Solutions continue to develop and maintain the MIE Trak Pro software, supporting hundreds of companies world-wide.
Don Clutter
Don Clutter has over 34 years of experience in finance and management in the manufacturing arena. Don worked for Stokely Van Camp, CE Beaumont (a division of Combustion Engineering), was Controller of Houston Processors, was Corporate Controller of All American Gourmet (a $700 million division of Kraft Foods), and was CFO of VSI Fasteners. With a BS in Business Management from Indiana University and an MBA from Butler University in Indianapolis, Don works alongside David Ferguson to help manufacturing businesses maintain efficiency and profitability with the use of MIE Trak Pro.
Don is an invaluable resource for MIE Trak Pro users, as well as the internal staff of MIE Solutions, utilizing his 40+ years of experience and expertise in Finance and Cost Accounting. Job shops and fabricators alike have received hands-on support from Don Clutter and the team that he and David built from the ground up.
Today, Don continues to assist MIE Trak Pro users and entire organizations, providing business consulting services to many long-time and new customers of MIE Solutions.
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1981
David Ferguson, Jr. creates and sells his first computer program, Arrow Data Systems, while attending high school.
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1984
David Ferguson, Jr. creates the Quotelt estimating software to help manage his father’s workload at his sheet metal shop.
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1987
QuoteIt becomes one of the leading sheet metal quoting/estimating packages in the world
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1990
FabriTRAK Production Control Software is created and licensed to MetalSoft, Inc. — a company later purchased by Amada America.
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2007
David Ferguson, Jr. takes back control of FabriTRAK to continue its development, thus creating MIE Trak and founding the MIE Solutions company, alongside Co-Founder, Donald Clutter.
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Present
MIE Solutions is a 5-year consecutive Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies Honoree and is known throughout the industry as a provider of outstanding software and services.