Datasweep reports surge in demand for cross-platform manufacturing systems.

Datasweep, Inc. recently reported that the Datasweep Advantage Suite version 6, its newest generation of award-winning manufacturing solutions, has been adopted by more than 20% of its customer base to support a burgeoning demand for cross-platform manufacturing environments. These customers are thought leaders in their respective markets of life sciences, electronics and consumer products manufacturing, and have scrupulously evaluated and tested manufacturing execution systems (MES) for replicable process management, global manufacturing visibility, and the ability to unite heterogeneous enterprise data into one electronic system of record.

John Beans, Datasweep's vice president of Marketing, noted that "Datasweep's market surveys indicate manufacturing operations will continue to expand into networks of OEMs and suppliers around the world. This is creating demand for systems that can run on a variety of platforms, including not just Microsoft Windows but also Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, IBM iSeries, Sun Solaris, and various releases of Linux. Datasweep's successful transition to a J2EE-based enterprise manufacturing software architecture and ongoing support for standards such as ISA-88 and ISA-95 are helping our customers realize the benefits of portability, integration, and performance."

"We had already made a significant investment in servers and operating systems," said one IT executive at a leading electronic component manufacturer. "Datasweep's ability to support our standard corporate datacenter automatically helps us reduce our investment in hardware and systems and helps us avoid the spiraling costs of maintenance across disparate systems. Datasweep's support for open source gives us some very cost-efficient options as we expand our business and manufacturing partners internationally. These were major factors in our decision to select Datasweep's manufacturing solutions."

Datasweep's broad manufacturing and quality solutions integrate well with SAP and Oracle enterprise applications and have demonstrated durability, flexibility and scalability in large-scale manufacturing environments of globally distributed plants as well as across networks of OEMs and contract manufacturers.

"Our commitment to SAP played heavily in how we chose our MES," said a VP of Quality Assurance at one large life sciences manufacturer. "Datasweep's certified interface to SAP and proven knowledge of how the systems work together to deliver a superior solution in our environment were key factors in our decision."

Recent performance testing conducted by Datasweep and partner IBM have demonstrated a 300% to 500% performance improvement on the Datasweep system when combined with IBM's WebSphere application server, compared to previous versions of Datasweep which ran solely on a Microsoft server platform. Performance improvements were realized for the most commonly-performed transactions and were consistently returned in tests across varying system configurations.