Eighteen months after helping to engineer the merger of manufacturing execution system software provider Intercim Inc. and manufacturing intelligence software purveyor Pertinence SA, Intercim President and CEO John Todd said the companies have completed the marriage of their two organizations and are now working to create tighter integration between their product lines.
Speaking with Managing Automation at the company's recent Intercim Live North American customer conference in Seattle, Todd said that the merger with Paris-based Pertinence transformed Intercim from a small MES software provider focused mainly on North American aerospace/defense and automotive markets into a global vendor with a new focus on integrating plant operations with supply chain, product design, and other processes.
As part of the organizational integration, 100-employee Intercim has implemented a dual headquarters setup, with Todd running the overall company and former Pertinence CEO Amelie Faure taking on the role of European CEO.
"We are pleased with the progress we've made from an organizational point of view," Todd said. "We are now focused on enhancing collaboration between our manufacturing clients and their supply chains, and the software is the tool to help them realize that enhanced collaboration."