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Weir Pumps is a medium‐sized engineering company with several factories in the Glasgow area. It has between 29,000 and 30,000 stock parts, and for a number of years has been keeping, and up‐dating, information on these by computer. The system has worked pretty efficiently, allowing the firm to keep tabs on where stocks of the various parts are held, their quantities and prices, and so on.