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Golden Ticket – Part 3 Consilium A ugust 1984: I started a new job at Consilium. Consilium was what was referred to as a start-up company. It had been around for about 2 years and had 60 something employees when I joined them. Consilium was a software (computer applications) company, meaning that they they made all their money selling software products as opposed to say someone like IBM whose main product was the hardware, the computer itself. Consilium did not sell hardware. Consilium sold a lot-based manufacturing software product that was the leading product of its type, leading edge was the popular term for that at the time. They were not the biggest but their product was the most advanced. S o perhaps you are wondering just what is lot-based manufacturing? Well in general there are a couple of types of manufacturing. One is where you make something one item at a time like when you are putting together a car. You put each piece of the car together one at a time, usua