LEADING INDUSTRIAL PARTS MANUFACTURER LEVERAGES INFORMANCE ENTERPRISE FOR MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE

Manufacturer sees performance improvement as imperative to address capacity, rising commodity prices and overall shareholder value.

REDWOOD CITY, CA - Informance International, a leader in manufacturing business intelligence and enterprise manufacturing intelligence solutions announces that a leading US manufacturer of industrial parts will leverage Informance to collect data, derive insight and discover correlations of tactical and strategic actions at the plant-level and across the manufacturing network. The company recently deployed Informance Enterprise Edition to drive operational excellence throughout the business in an effort to increase capacity, reduce costs, drive and sustain operational performance, and provide for thorough knowledge transfer as key professionals and workers matriculate.

The industrial manufacturer selected Informance as their key partner to drive manufacturing performance. The company will look to Informance to assess improvement opportunities, help develop a roadmap that aligns plant tactics with corporate strategies, provide operator and executive coaching, and make recommendations for the sustainability of operational excellence. At each step along the way, plant and executive management will look to Informance to measure and report the financial impact of performance improvements, and help establish a culture to enable all levels throughout the company to discover, evaluate and take action on opportunities.

"Industrial manufacturers are particularly capacity constrained in comparison to other manufacturing industries, and they look to Informance to drive asset performance and improve return on assets. As a result, industrials manufacturing is a rapidly growing sector for us," comments Sunil Singh, president and CEO of Informance International. "We provide the visibility and insight that’s necessary to manage and drive operational excellence initiatives, and enjoy working with companies that are eager to drive shareholder value through manufacturing operations."

As companies look beyond simple OEE tools, they welcome a platform that blends real-time performance intelligence for manufacturing operations, powerful improvement evaluation analytics, and leading change management experts across Lean, Six-Sigma, TPM and other improvement methodologies. With Informance, enterprises have the ability to drive the improvement portfolio with facts, pervasive visibility, and maximum knowledge transfer. In particular, companies look Informance to provide real data, actual root cause and a deep understanding to develop one true path to fix problems.