Activplant Announces Performance Management System

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

DETROIT, Oct. 25 -- Activplant Corporation (London, Ontario), the leading provider of enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI) software, today announced the immediate availability of The Activplant Performance Management System(TM) -- the first comprehensive pre-configured system delivering world-class manufacturing metrics to drive performance improvements.

Based on almost a decade of enterprise manufacturing intelligence experience, the system incorporates lean manufacturing principles and best practices of Activplant customers including 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 for using 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 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 to help plant management drive results,
  *  an implementation methodology to accelerate a plant's time to ROI,
  *  implementation services to accelerate system adoption and use

  About Activplant

Activplant is the leading provider of enterprise manufacturing intelligence software. Activplant software enables manufacturers to collect, store, analyze, and distribute critical information throughout the manufacturing enterprise in real time. Activplant 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 that drive operational efficiency, product quality, and plant profitability. Activplant is a privately held company based in London, Ontario.