Informance Congratulates L'Oreal USA For Winning Progressive Manufacturing Award For Operational Excellence

Beauty leader recognized for achieving measurable excellence with Informance.

NORTHBROOK, IL - L'Oreal USA, a subsidiary of L'Oreal Paris, one of the world’s largest beauty and cosmetics companies, has won Managing Automation’s Progressive Manufacturing 100 Award. L'Oreal has been recognized for its success in empowering teams to solve problems and effect change, delivering significant improvement in key measures of manufacturing performance.

As the technology provider to L'Oreal’s continuous improvement initiative, Informance International congratulates L’Oreal for their achievement. Informance, a leader in manufacturing business and enterprise manufacturing intelligence solutions, designed and supplied management information systems for the program. "Informance is proud to be the technology partner to L'Oreal and to have helped with this highly visible initiative. We congratulate them not just for earning the prestigious PM100 award, but for the transformational impact their manufacturing teams have had on operational excellence," said John Oskin, Founder and Executive Vice President, Informance.

In 2008, L'Oreal selected Informance as its technology partner in an initiative to improve performance and align plant tactics with corporate strategies. The Informance team delivered software to collect and analyze production data, and provided advice on the effective use of performance metrics to sustain L'Oreal’s program for operational excellence. Plant and executive management now use the Informance solution to monitor the financial impact of performance improvements and to discover, evaluate and take action on opportunities in their manufacturing operations.

Judged by an independent panel of publication management, industry analysts, industry executives and past winning companies, the PM100 recognizes projects that have achieved distinction in at least one of eight core disciplines critical to business success. L'Oreal and the other PM100 winners received their awards at the Progressive Manufacturing Awards Gala during the Annual Progressive Manufacturing Summit 2010, in Palm Beach, Florida.

For more information about the PM100 awards, visit www.managingautomation.com/awards.