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by Lauren Gibbons Paul, Contributing Editor, Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Monday, June 12, 2006 11:50:00 AM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    Las Vegas -- Activplant Corp. today said its patent-pending Throughput Analyzer has entered general release, an application that takes manufacturing intelligence one step further into the area of performance management. The company is so sure of its ability to help manufacturers increase plant performance 5% to 25% by optimizing what already exists, it also offered a guarantee. If the customer does not achieve its throughput improvement goals within 14 weeks -- the typical deployment timeframe -- it has no obligation to pay for the software, which ranges in cost from $100,000 up to $1 million-plus. Activplant officials made the disclosure at Managing Automation's Progressive Manufacturing Summit, here, as it prepared to release the names of its first customers of Throughput Analyzer. Beta tests have been conducted at a large Japanese automotive OEM and a tier-one automotive supplier. According to the company, by using the software, a $100 million plant can achieve at least a 5% increase in throughput resulting in a $2 million-to-$3 million annual savings. [Click to continue] |
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