Howard Wright in New Zealand is a designer, maker and marketer of medical beds and stretchers, equipment and accessories including electric hospital beds, ICU and ward beds along with internationally renowned Stryker medical stretchers.

Recently Howard Wright chose Epicor’s ERP manufacturing system to:
•    Reduce the mountains on purchasing paperwork
•    Be able to evaluate win loss ratios
•    Get quotes out quickly and accurately
•    Know what is sold to whom – Excel just got too cumbersome.
•    Have a real-time integrated financial application.
•    Cut down reports and streamline processes.
•    Comply with the required Medsafe and MSDS

Howard Wright was a motor mechanic who loved to make things and solve problems. In the 1950s, Howard started his own engineering business in a small workshop underneath his house.

By the 1970s Howard Wright Limited was making and selling most of the hospital beds in use in New Zealand. Howard came up with the idea of using remote hydraulic pumping at the foot of the bed to raise the bed surface. That placed Howard Wright at the forefront in hospital bed design. The M4 was followed by the equally innovative Pacific Shower Trolley which Howard Wright developed and exported all around the world.

Howard has retired now, but the team at Howard Wright Limited has retained his vision for innovative yet practical design; and extended it across a whole range of patient care surfaces using the latest electronic componentry. And every new product has been developed the same way, by firstly talking to the clinicians in hospitals and then converting their ideas into practical cost-effective designs.

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