Toyota's Largest North American Manufacturing Facility Chooses VisualPlant as its Manufacturing Intelligence Standard

YPSILANTI, Mich., Sept. 17 -- At the inaugural VisualPlant Manufacturing Intelligence Summit, Executive Manufacturing Technologies (EMT) today announced that Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TMMNA) has licensed EMT's VisualPlant Manufacturing Intelligence Software for its largest North American production facility in Georgetown, Kentucky. Georgetown is the single largest Toyota manufacturing facility outside of Japan and employs more than 7,000 workers. It is responsible for the production of the Camry, Avalon and Solara.

Toyota joins other leading U.S. and international manufacturers such as Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Dana, Gillette, Lear, Magna, TRW Automotive and Visteon that have chosen VisualPlant Manufacturing Intelligence Software for real-time visualization and analysis of plant floor data. VisualPlant provides true operational visibility and enables fact-based decision making for all plant- floor operations.

"Toyota is one of the global leaders in manufacturing and its selection of VisualPlant as the manufacturing intelligence software standard demonstrates the worldwide competitiveness of our products," said Dennis Cocco, EMT president and chief executive officer.

"With VisualPlant we are able to meet the requirements of each department from Stamping through Assembly, without multiple customized solutions. This will provide us with a single, integrated enterprise system for gathering and analyzing production information," says Toyota's Greg Wilder, Assistant General Manager, Information Systems.

VisualPlant is the leading Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence platform for discrete and hybrid manufacturing, and for plant management and staff needing to understand what is happening on their plant floor in real-time. The analytical layer on top of the plant floor, VisualPlant provides true operational visibility and fact-based decision-making. VisualPlant integrates, visualizes, reports and generates user-defined key performance indicators (KPIs) on real-time, historical and calculated data collected from the entire plant and delivers it to plant managers in a web-browser.

About EMT

EMT is a leading provider of Manufacturing Intelligence software. EMT's software, VisualPlant, enables manufacturers to collect, store, analyze and distribute critical information throughout the manufacturing enterprise in real-time. VisualPlant consolidates raw plant floor data into relevant real- time information and historical data. This visibility allows plant managers and corporate executives to make faster, more informed decisions to improve operational efficiency, product quality and profitability. EMT is a privately held company based in London, Ontario. More information about VisualPlant and EMT can be found at www.visualplant.com