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Copley Controls Taps Open Ratings for Supply Management; Leading Industrial Manufacturer Drives Proactive Risk Management.


BOSTON -- Copley Controls, the global provider of industrial solutions for motion control and high-power amplifiers, will deploy Open Ratings' SBManager(R) to improve the performance of its supply network.

The win reflects escalating demand by companies of all sizes for a solution that leverages deep insight into key metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM.  to reduce risk and drive better decisions. Open Ratings will help Copley Controls improve supplier performance and gain new control over the entire sourcing process by proactively identifying potential risks before they disrupt production.

Open Ratings' SBManager will evaluate, monitor and maintain performance information, including reliability, quality and technical superiority for Copley Control's 160-plus critical suppliers. Its data fusion Data fusion, is generally defined as the use of techniques that combine data from multiple sources and gather that information in order to achieve inferences, which will be more efficient than if they were achieved by means of a single source.  solution, which integrates up-to-date information about suppliers from hundreds of publicly available sources with insight from Copley Controls' own relationships, will predict supplier performance problems and assess root cause and severity of impending im·pend  
intr.v. im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends
1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending.

2.
 issues.

"Having comprehensive knowledge about our suppliers is critical to our business," said Gordon Mears, C.P.M., director of materials for Copley Controls, headquartered in Canton Canton, cities, United States
Canton.

1 City (1990 pop. 13,922), Fulton co., W central Ill., in the corn belt; inc. 1849. It is a trade and industrial center for a coal and farm area.

2 Town (1990 pop. 18,530), Norfolk co.
, Mass. "Open Ratings has already proven that the information and insight it provides - reflecting a broader knowledge base and other companies' experiences - can validate what we think might be a risk and give us a much longer lead to acting on anything that has the potential to limit our success."

Copley Controls Corp. has been providing high power amplifiers Power amplifier

The final stage in multistage amplifiers, such as audio amplifiers and radio transmitters, designed to deliver appreciable power to the load.
 and high performance motion solutions to the world's leading OEMs in the semiconductor, medical, pharmaceutical and automated assembly/inspection for more than 20 years. Its high power PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) A modulation technique that generates variable-width pulses to represent the amplitude of an analog input signal. Like its fixed-width pulse density modulation (PDM) cousin, the output switching transistor is on more of the time for a  amplifiers contribute to high quality in medical imaging and its precision motion control products provide automation and process solutions for a wide variety of customer specific precision applications.

"Copley Controls is taking a giant leap forward with this initiative to incorporate a broader perspective into its decision-making process for the supply base," said Stan Smith
This article is about the tennis player. For the animated character, see Stan Smith (American Dad!). For the former NASCAR driver, see Stanley Smith.
Stan Smith
, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Open Ratings. "We're pleased to be a part of their efforts to build a world-class strategy for maximizing supply chain efficiency."

About Open Ratings

Open Ratings Inc. helps companies make better, more profitable decisions with data fusion solutions that provide business performance insights. Its pattern recognition technology aggregates business data from inside and outside the enterprise, cleans and unifies this data, and applies proprietary analytics to deliver actionable intelligence Having the necessary information immediately available in order to deal with the situation at hand. With regard to call centers, it refers to agents having customer history and related product data available on screen before the call is taken.  on the performance, financial opportunities and risks presented by trading partners. Its customers include many of the world's leaders in aerospace, automotive and industrial equipment manufacturing. The machine learning technology behind Open Ratings' solutions is the result of cutting-edge research started at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's world renowned Media Labs. Based in Boston, Mass., the company can be reached at (781) 290-0828 or www.openratings.com.

About Copley Controls Corporation

Copley Controls Corp. is a worldwide leader in high power amplifiers and high performance motion solutions for OEMs in the semiconductor, medical, pharmaceutical and automated assembly/inspection industries. Headquartered in the US with a division in England, Copley Controls has 20 years of experience in OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and  partnerships. Our global commitment is backed with sales offices and local technical support in the US, Europe and Asia.
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