When all the drawings for a custom machine were completed, the BOM was manually transferred from the drawings into the BOM database system, called DBOMP. DBOMP was originally written by IBM and extensively modified for Fort Wayne in the 1990s to handle bills of material for the vertical type machines. When production of the medium and large horizontal machines was transferred to Fort Wayne, DBOMP’s limitations forced many “workarounds.” For example, when the General Engineering large horizontal technology was moved to Fort Wayne, it was discovered that DBOMP could not handle the longer General Engineering drawing numbers. Moreover, there was no one at Fort Wayne who knew the DBOMP code well enough to make a change in the software.