Camstar to Optimize High-Volume Manufacturing Productivity for Lexmark
Camstar's InSite Provides Real-time Quality Management to Drive Down Manufacturing Costs
CAMPBELL, Calif. (March 18, 2004) - Camstar, a leader in enterprise manufacturing performance management systems, today announced that Lexmark International, Inc. will deploy the Camstar solution across its enterprise to manage high production volumes and further drive down the cost of manufacturing for its printing solutions.
Lexmark selected Camstar to help create a real-time manufacturing environment capable of handling millions of transactions each day. By integrating Camstar's InSiteTM solution with automated high-speed vision bar code systems, Lexmark captures and manages live production data from every process and transaction taking place throughout its plants. Plant managers can quickly react to quality issues as they happen, and the increased information flow highlights abnormal situations and alerts managers to potential problems with products or processes.
"We chose Camstar to meet our rigorous manufacturing requirements. Camstar's ability to work with the Lexmark team and successfully deliver on our initial deployment phase ensured us that the project expansion would run smoothly," said Najib Bahous, Lexmark vice president and president of its Consumer Printing Division. "By providing enterprise integration to our business processes we can ensure the highest levels of quality across all our manufacturing facilities even while lowering our overall cost of production."
As part of the initial project, Camstar's solutions team worked closely with Lexmark's internal resources to create self-sufficient implementation teams and to ensure a smooth transition for future technology. As a result, Lexmark has the flexibility to implement the new planned rollouts on its own time schedule completely using internal resources.
About Camstar Systems, Inc.
Camstar is a leading provider of enterprise Manufacturing Execution and Quality Systems. Camstar’s InSite and Medical Device Suite applications manage, monitor, and synchronize manufacturing activities across globally distributed plants, and integrates them in real-time with core business processes. Rapid to implement, they provide the manufacturing control needed to help eliminate scrap, rework, paperwork errors and redundant checks. As a result, manufacturers improve yields and product quality, shorten lead times and reach volumes quickly, respond to changing demand, and reduce the cost of compliance. More than 100 leading companies, including Roche, Tyco, ZOLL, CIBA Vision, Zeiss, Kinetic Concepts, BIOTRONIK, IBM, Kodak, AMD, Philips, Hitachi, SCHOTT, Amkor, ASAT, Renesas, Arcelor and Industeel rely on Camstar as a trusted software partner.
For more information about Camstar and its InSite product, call us toll free at 1-800-588-0030, or visit at www.camstar.com