Factory Logic Announces Newest Release of the Streamline Lean Factory Management SystemRelease 4.3 Delivers Innovative Capabilities to Improve Lean Production Management for Auto Suppliers AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 4, 2003 -- Factory Logic, the leading supplier of software solutions to support lean production management, today officially released version 4.3 of the Streamline Lean Factory Management System. Streamline is the first comprehensive software solution built specifically to support and enhance the use of key concepts pioneered in the Toyota Production System by providing integrated capabilities for lean process design and analytics, demand-driven production scheduling, pull-based material management, and lean performance measurement. Release 4.3 was developed in close cooperation with leading automotive suppliers such as Johnson Controls and Guide Corporation to extend and enhance several key capabilities, including: -- Electronic Heijunka -- Cell/Line Capacity Planning -- Supermarket Management -- Inventory Projection Monitoring Streamline 4.3 is designed to help automotive suppliers and other high volume manufacturers with stringent delivery requirements improve operational performance in several important ways: -- More effectively respond to fluctuations in customer demand while maintaining factory and supply chain stability -- Reduce inventory buffers and overtime/expediting costs required to maintain very high order delivery performance -- More quickly recognize and adjust to changing factory and supply chain conditions By providing innovative new tools to help further reduce waste and increase responsiveness, Streamline 4.3 helps manufacturers achieve bottom- line benefits of improved competitiveness, increased market share, and higher profits. Allan Wilson, Factory Logic CEO and President, stated: "Every upper-tier automotive supplier is struggling with how to better respond to volatile OEM demand while further reducing costs and maintaining virtually perfect quality and order delivery levels. Over the past few years, most auto suppliers have made substantial progress using lean manufacturing concepts, but many of them have hit a plateau in performance improvements based on what they can achieve with spreadsheets and other un-integrated tools. Now manufacturing and IT executives are beginning to look for a more sophisticated approach. With the insight gained through our work with forward-thinking companies like Johnson Controls, Guide Corporation, and others, Factory Logic is meeting that need with the first off-the-shelf software platform engineered to fully support the rigorous lean production management requirements of leading automotive suppliers." As an example of the increasing level of interest in lean manufacturing solutions, Factory Logic was recently featured in an AMR Alert titled "A Market for Lean Application Software May Be Surfacing," published on July 24, 2003. The 'bottom line' of the report was that "A market for lean manufacturing software may be emerging, based on the work of a handful of software vendors and the testimonies of their clients". In the Alert, AMR Research Analyst, Bob Parker stated: "I became closer to being convinced of a lean application market after a recent demo and briefing from Factory Logic. The company's Streamline product has sophisticated capabilities for several important lean concepts, most notably resource and inventory leveling." Streamline 4.3 is now available for delivery and deployment. For more details, visit Factory Logic's library at http://www.factorylogic.com/library.asp to download the Streamline 4.3 Release Highlights brochure. About Factory Logic Factory Logic is dedicated to helping companies improve customer responsiveness and eliminate waste by delivering factory management solutions that support and enhance the use of key techniques pioneered in the Toyota Production System (TPS), and that make lean manufacturing practical for a wider range of manufacturing environments. With headquarters in Austin, Texas, Factory Logic is the first company to team lean manufacturing specialists with experienced software professionals to develop a standard software product built around the principles of lean production. The result is Streamline -- a comprehensive off the shelf Lean Factory Management System. Streamline is a new breed of software product designed to support the new breed of lean factory. As such, it became the first software product to be awarded the coveted Shingo Prize in 2001.
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