Intelligent Manufacturing € November € 1995 € Vol. 1 € No. 11
Intelligent Manufacturing € November € 1995 € Vol. 1
€ No. 11
Baan Co. (Menlo Park, Calif.), a provider of open,
client/server-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for
manufacturing, has announced that a number of automotive
manufacturers and suppliers - Alloy Wheels, AMG, A.O. Smith, British
Steel Forgings, BTR Cow Industrial Polymers, Mercedes-Benz U.S.
International, and Pininfarina - have selected Baan's Triton as a
client/server, ERP software solution. In response to these and other
automotive customers that have selected Baan's supply chain
management solution, the company has introduced its Automotive
Initiative, building on its Triton family of integrated business
process applications.
The initiative consists of the new Baan Automotive Division with a
dedicated field organization, new automotive-specific functionality
within Triton and Automotive Competency Centers for customer support.
The Triton automotive-specific modules are optimized for automobile
manufacturers and suppliers, allowing them to manage the automotive
supply chain, and to adapt to changing market conditions.
A.O. Smith (Milwaukee, Wis.), a supplier of truck frames and
suspension systems to U.S. and international automakers, has selected
Triton to replace outdated software and proprietary hardware systems
throughout its 12 manufacturing plants.
Alloy Wheels, a division of South Africa-based Murray & Roberts,
is installing Triton in three sites: two in the U.K. and one in South
Africa. The company produces alloy wheels for a number of auto
manufacturers.
AMG (Affalternbach, Germany) will use Triton to handle product
documentation for the Mercedes-Benz E50.
UK-based British Steel Forgings, a supplier of steel forged parts and
gears, is installing Triton's automotive product in five sites to
downsize from a mainframe environment. BSF intends to move from
mainframe legacy systems to an open systems platform using an
integrated manufacturing and financial package.
UK-based BTR Cow Industrial Polymers has selected Triton for
manufacturing, distribution, finance and service to be used globally
throughout the organization.
Mercedes-Benz, the German luxury automotive manufacturer, has
selected Triton as the backbone for the company's first U.S.
passenger vehicle manufacturing plant currently under construction in
Alabama. Baan's Triton software was selected to meet Mercedes-Benz's
requirements for flexibility, ongoing configuration, master
production scheduling and forecasting.
Italy-based Pininfarina, which designs and builds body shells for
Ferrari, has selected Triton based on the product's ability to
rapidly adjust to changing production cycles.
United Technologies Corp. (UTC) (Hartford, Conn.) has signed a
corporate volume agreement with Concentra Corp. (Burlington, Mass.),
a provider of knowledge-based engineering software solutions, for
Concentra's ICAD System design automation software. The order, valued
at $1.2 million, which includes an option to purchase an additional
$675,000 of software within the next 60 days, provides ICAD System
software for multiple divisions of UTC, including Pratt &
Whitney, Sikorsky Aircraft, Hamilton Standard and optionally, United
Technologies Automotive. The agreement also enables UTC divisions to
separately purchase Concentra's sales engineering automation product,
Selling Point.
Sikorsky Aircraft uses Concentra's generative technology to automate
the design of wire harnesses, composite tools and assembly fixtures.
For instance, in a key manufacturing design, Sikorsky reduced cycle
time from 14 days to one hour. Sikorsky plans to now expand the use
of the ICAD System more strategically to obtain similar results on a
broader scale.
Manugistics Group Inc. (Rockville, Md.), a provider of supply
chain management software, has signed a licensing agreement with
American Stores Co. (Salt Lake City, Utah), an $18 billion operator
of retail grocery and drug stores, for the use of the Manugistics
Transportation Planning (MTP) application. American Stores will use
MTP to perform inbound transportation planning.
American Stores will integrate MTP with the Manugistics Routing and
Scheduling application which is already being used to perform daily
store delivery planning at the company's distribution centers.
American Stores' operating companies include Acme Markets, Lucky
Stores, Jewel Food Stores, Osco Drugs and Sav-on Drugs.
Numetrix Ltd. (Toronto, Ont., Canada), a provider of intelligent
supply chain management solutions, has signed a number of new
contracts, totaling several million dollars in revenue. Reynold
Metals Co. (Fulton, N.Y.), an aluminum company, has implemented a
corporate planning and integration solution from Numetrix. Austin
Quality Foods (Cary, N.C.), a cracker and cookie producer, has
purchased Numetrix products to develop a fully integrated planning
and scheduling solution. Other customers include Bass Brewers, Bayer
Corp., Dow Chemical, Kimberly-Clark, Rhone-Poulenc and Valvoline
Co.
Berclain USA Ltd. (Schaumburg, Ill.), a scheduling and
manufacturing sychronization solutions vendor, and QAD (Carpinteria,
Calif.), a provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions,
have formed a global strategic partnership. In addition to joint
marketing, the two companies plan to develop an OAG-compliant
application programming interface (API) between Berclain's MOOPI and
QAD's MFG/PRO.
Volvo GM Heavy Truck (Greensboro, N.C.), a manufacturer of
custom-ordered heavy trucks, is implementing the Classys software
product from Antalys (Golden, Colo.), a provider of enterprise-wide
sales and marketing configuration support systems, to support its
engineering, manufacturing and sales staffs. With the new system,
Volvo will offer its employees a tool to perform product
configurations for order fulfillment.
Classys is a sales automation software application that supports the
configuration of complex products and services. Volvo expects to
improve order accuracy and turnaround, while significantly reducing
the order cycle and manufacturing rework costs.
Waterloo Manufacturing Software (Twinsburg, Ohio), a vendor of
PC-based finite capacity scheduling software, has formed a business
partnership with MDSS (Strongsville, Ohio), a supplier of PC-based
manufacturing execution systems (MES). Waterloo will integrate its
Tactic finite capacity scheduling product with MDSS's Factivity MES
product.
Factivity will feed Tactic current shop floor status so that the
manufacturing staff can use Tactic's "what if?" features to
interactively resolve problems with real-time factory floor status
data. Also, Tactic will feed Factivity work sequence, overtime and
other changes, based on those "what if?" ideas, resulting in actions
that should improve customer service and reduce manufacturing
costs.
J.D. Edwards (Denver, Colo.), a business solution software
provider, will provide its full suite of manufacturing, financial and
distribution software to Hoffman Engineering (Anoka, Minn.), a
manufacturer of electrical packaging solutions, and the Schroff Group
(Warwick, R.I.), a manufacturer of electronic cabinets, cases and
sub-racks, creating a strong base for an extensive partnership
between the two manufacturers.
J.D. Edwards' software will enable both firms to manufacture, sell
and distribute each other's product lines.
Lucas-Bear (Fort Washington, Pa.), a provider of forecasting and
replenishment software systems, has signed an agreement with
Starbucks Coffee Co. (Seattle, Wash.). Starbucks is implementing
Lucas-Bear's Demand Forecasting product, a monthly/weekly forecasting
application. Starbucks needed a monthly forecast to generate sales
projections, while weekly forecasts were required for scheduling
production at its York, Pa., Seattle and Kent, Wash., roasting
plants.
Demand Forecasting assists management in providing a reliable
estimate of future sales by item and by time period for use in
inventory management, materials management, marketing, budgeting, and
other business processes. The system generates a statistical forecast
of past demand and allows management to produce a forecast that
combines the analysis of demand history with anticipated changes and
new demand factors.
FACT Inc. (Norcross, Ga.), a vendor of enterprise-wide
manufacturing management solutions, has acquired the assets of
UK-based Mandis International Ltd. The Mandis manufacturing and
distribution management systems are Oracle-based, client/server, open
systems solutions that are implemented at more than 100 manufacturing
and distribution sites throughout Europe.
FACT's EnSync suite of manufacturing management solutions synchronize
planning, scheduling and execution across the enterprise. The
addition of the Mandis product line will enable FACT to offer MRP II
planning capabilities combined with dynamic finite scheduling and
manufacturing execution system (MES) capabilities. Mandis's
development team has also been acquired by FACT.
Camintonn (Irvine, Calif.), a manufacturer of PC memory boards,
has implemented MFG/PRO software from QAD Inc. (Carpinteria, Calif.),
a supplier of integrated business software and services. MFG/PRO is a
complete manufacturing and distribution management software solution
for enterprise-wide, client/server, open systems architectures. The
implementation was performed by Business Systems Specialties Inc.
(BSSI) (Newport Beach, Calif.), a QAD business partner.
BSSI provided project planning up front, set milestones and trained
all Camintonn departments on the MFG/PRO inventory control, sales
orders, purchase orders, work orders, accounts receivable, accounts
payable, multiple currency, general ledger, and other modules.
Visibility Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.), a provider of advanced
information systems and services for make-to-order and
engineer-to-order manufacturing, has signed a partnership agreement
with International Business Systems Services (IBSS) (Paris, France.)
IBSS will represent and support the Visibility product in France, its
overseas territories and departments, and the French-speaking sectors
of Switzerland and Belgium.
IBSS France is a subsidiary of the European Group IBS AB, and is
focused on providing a range of integrated solutions on open
platforms to the French commercial and manufacturing communities.