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INFORMANCE INTRODUCES ENTERPRISE SOLUTION TO ACCELERATE OPERATING PERFORMANCE INITIATIVES
Manufacturing firms can now align executive strategies and operational tactics enterprise-wide.
REDWOOD CITY, CA — January 10, 2007 — Informance International, a
leader in Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) solutions, announces the release
of The Informance Enterprise Solution for manufacturing companies eager to accelerate
improvement initiatives, drive operating strategies and obtain actionable insight
for operational performance. Informance is the only EMI solutions provider that
delivers the top three critical capabilities as prescribed by leading analysts to
drive better business decisions: multi-site performance analysis, enterprise visibility
of production financial performance and data aggregation from multiple plant facilities.
"The Informance EMI solution helps us drive operational excellence across
our entire enterprise by providing global visibility into our manufacturing operations,"
comments Jim Heard, Assistant Vice President of the Cargill Salt business unit.
"The combination of multi-site data aggregation and cross-plant analytics enables
us to make strategic decisions better and faster, significantly accelerating and
sustaining manufacturing performance."
Building on the success of The Informance Plant Solution, The Informance Enterprise
Solution allows users — at the plant, operations management or executive level
— to unlock capacity, increase productivity without additional capital investment,
reduce inventory and labor costs, and decrease working capital. Informance Plant
improves performance real-time while Informance Enterprise provides strategic intelligence.
When used together, these solutions provide a holistic approach to leverage intelligence,
and build and sustain continuous improvement initiatives.
Colin Masson of AMR Research comments that, "Enterprise manufacturing intelligence
(EMI) is a hot topic for manufacturers and now is the time to put all real-time
operational data into business context. Informance is among those with an EMI framework
that offers the broadest support of the core capabilities [first] defined in 2003,
which we’ll continue to assess against the extended set of criteria."
Colin Masson & Alison Smith, "Architecting the Next Generation of EMI: Operations
Intelligence Meets Business Intelligence," AMR Article, August 8, 2006, AMR
Research Boston, MA; http://amrresearch.com/Content/View.asp?pmillid=19659.
The Informance Enterprise Solution contains two modules: Informance Manufacturing
Strategist, and Informance Enterprise Alerts.
Informance Manufacturing Strategist enables:
- What-if scenario analysis. Evaluate strategies and the impact on KPIs based on real-time
data from the manufacturing network. Operations teams and executives can now see
the potential impact of decisions by facility and across the entire enterprise.
- Drive operating strategies. Executives can now translate a vision into strategies
and day-to-day operating tactics throughout the manufacturing network. Intelligence
travels both ways: from executives throughout the organization, and from individual
assets within the manufacturing network up to executives.
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Closed-loop process improvement. The Informance Enterprise Solution monitors performance
against targets in real time at many levels – all facilities, by plant, by
asset or work center – so that strategies and plans stay on track.
Informance Enterprise Alerts enables:
- Proactive notifications. Management can receive warnings if the enterprise is in
danger of missing any metric due to issues at any level – facility, asset
or resource.
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Management by exception. Individuals and teams access a dashboard to manage issues
globally from a single source.
For more information, please contact:
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