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Activplant Announces Performance Management System

New comprehensive system based on manufacturing best practices from world-class companies drives operational excellence thru the identification and elimination of production losses


2004 ACTIVPLANT MANUFACTURING INTELLIGENCE SUMMIT, DETROIT, MI - October 24, 2004 - Activplant Corporation (London, Ontario), the leading provider of enterprise manufacturing intelligence software, today announced the immediate availability of The Activplant Performance Management System™ --- the first comprehensive pre-configured system to deliver world-class manufacturing metrics to drive performance improvements.

Based on almost a decade of enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI) experience, the system incorporates lean manufacturing principles and best practices of Activplant customers that include Toyota, Gillette, Ford and many other world-class manufacturers. In addition to gathering, reporting, and generating real-time analyses of production status across the entire plant from a myriad of plant-floor sources, the Activplant Performance Management System provides an actionable roadmap on how to use this intelligence to cut costs, eliminate production losses, and exceed quality targets.

According to Bill Swanton, Vice President of Research at AMR, "shrinking margins and continued economic pressures are driving manufacturers to seek out the next wave of operations improvements. Manufacturing companies that have invested heavily in both business and process automation are increasingly challenged to join the two, only to find a no man’s land of manual data reconciliation, transfer, and analysis. Manufacturers seeking to derive more value from their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), and Business Intelligence (BI) systems may find that Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) applications are the critical link to the real-time world that’s been missing from their enterprise performance strategies."

The Activplant Performance Management System is designed to help progressive manufacturers meet production, quality and cost targets through actionable manufacturing intelligence that tells production and plant managers where, when and why they are losing production and more importantly, give them the information they need to eliminate those losses.

"The Activplant Performance Management System will revolutionize plant management," said Activplant president and CEO Dennis Cocco. "For the first-time, manufacturers have the ability to drive accountability for performance improvement across their operations. Both product launches and ongoing production benefit, as key performance indicators and other metrics are delivered to stakeholders in real-time. Already, our customers are seeing dramatic increases in production, reductions in costs and increases in quality and on-time product delivery with a 1% to 5% increase in their overall return on assets"

What’s included with the Activplant Performance Management System The Activplant Performance Management System is specifically designed to deliver actionable manufacturing intelligence for a broad array of Automotive, CPG, Food and Beverage and Forestry Product plants with nine different profiles designed for specific types of production lines.

It consists of:

  • the Activplant Manufacturing Intelligence Platform,
  • a set of pre-configured profiles that deliver pre-defined data collection, reports and analysis templates designed for specific plant types,
  • an operations methodology designed to help plant management drive results,
  • an implementation methodology designed to accelerate a plants time to ROI,
  • implementations services to accelerate the adoption and usage of the system.


About Activplant
An enterprise manufacturing intelligence market leader, Activplant’s Performance Management System has set the standard in operational excellence within the world’s largest and most admired manufacturers. Aimed at high-volume, high-automation plants, Activplant’s solution consolidates plant floor data into relevant real-time and historical information, enabling productivity gains by optimizing product, people, equipment and processes. With Activplant solutions, plant managers and manufacturing executives can focus on the key issues in their facilities that ultimately improve product quality, accelerate new product launches and drive performance gains. Activplant is a privately held company based in London, Ontario. For more information please visit www.activplant.com.

For more information, contact:
Donna Araujo
High Road Communications
T: 416.644.2283
E: daraujo@highroad.com

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