CIMTEK Wins Award for Innovative Product Quality Management, from Design to Warranty.Named to 2008 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 List of Next-Generation Solution Providers BOSTON -- CIMTEK, the leader in quality lifecycle management (QLM QLM Quick License Manager QLM Quantum Leap Methodology (KSA) QLM Quick Link Mobile ) solutions, ranks as one of the most innovative supply chain solution providers on the 2008 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 - for speeding how electronics manufacturers bring high quality products to market, cost-efficiently. The competitive award win recognizes the irresistible advantage that CIMTEK gives to product development teams: The ability to weigh design and component trade-offs, and to quantify potential quality compromises to reduce total lifecycle costs, minimize consuming returns and repairs and set more effective warranty strategies. Magellon, CIMTEK's Web-based software application, creates a holistic view of product quality, test and process data - with the powerful, analytical insight to speed product innovation, development and launches. It: * Pinpoints root cause analysis of product and component failures * Organizes product and component information across functional and geographic supply chain silos including test, shop floor control, manufacturing execution (MES (Manufacturing Execution Software) Software that provides real time access to plant activities that include equipment, labor, orders and inventory. An MES integrates the data with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems so that management has complete control of ), product lifecycle Product lifecycle or product life cycle is the course of a product's sales and profits over time. The five stages of each product lifecycle are product development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline. management (PLM (Product Life cycle Management) A comprehensive information system that coordinates all aspects of a product from initial concept to its eventual retirement. Sometimes called the "digital backbone" of a product, it includes the requirements phase, analysis and design ), enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) and aftermarket field service systems * Creates a central, actionable system of record - integrating test, supplier and component data across the entire product lifecycle - from design and development through return and repair * Provides on-the-spot predictive decision-making for continual quality improvements across next-generation products "Manufacturers feel the pinch of returns and repairs more acutely than ever, as today's accounting requirements bring product malfunctions under shareholder scrutiny," said Stan Smith
supporting role n → ruolo non protagonista in protecting our customers' brand equity." Magellon is developed on CIMTEK's 20-year experience in creating advanced test platforms and professional services for consumer, medical, automotive, aerospace and defense and industrial electronics manufacturers. "This year's '100' highlight a diverse range of solutions and services assisting in the transformation of key supply chain functions," said Andrew K. Reese, editor of Supply & Demand Chain Executive. "We're happy to welcome CIMTEK as a newcomer to our list and applaud how its solutions make quality testing rigor rigor /rig·or/ (rig´er) [L.] chill; rigidity. rigor mor´tis the stiffening of a dead body accompanying depletion of adenosine triphosphate in the muscle fibers. and efficiency an integral component of the supply chain, from design to the aftermarket." The full list of recipients is featured in the cover story of the June/July 2008 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive, as well as online at www.SDCExec.com/SDCE100. About CIMTEK CIMTEK solves one of manufacturing's biggest challenges: how to bring high-quality products to market quickly and cost-effectively. With CIMTEK's Quality Lifecycle Management, manufacturers leverage critical information on performance, functionality and reliability captured in the test phase to drive higher quality designs, smarter sourcing and consistently profitable products. Since 1986, CIMTEK has been the partner of choice for innovative test solution by leaders in aerospace, automotive, high-tech and industrial manufacturing. Its customers include Microsoft[R], Motorola[R], Honeywell[R], Siemens[R], Visteon[R], Delphi[R], and DuPont[R]. For more information visit www.cimtek.com |
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