Alere to Deploy Camstar Platform to Support Product Quality and Rapid Growth Goals
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (July 28, 2011) – Camstar Systems, Inc. announced today that Alere, a global leader in enabling individuals to take charge of their health at home under medical supervision, through the integration of rapid diagnostics and health management, has selected the Camstar Enterprise Platform™ to support its growing business. The solution, which includes Manufacturing Execution, Non-conformance Reporting and Operational Intelligence, will be the foundation for an operational excellence platform designed to establish a more predictable manufacturing process and supply chain.
"Alere is committed to providing the best quality products," said Mark Gladwell, General Manager of Alere’s San Diego operation. "Camstar's Platform is a key technology for our San Diego manufacturing plant and supports our strategic initiative to consistently deliver top product quality."
"As we grow, we need to continue to focus on repeatable manufacturing processes," said Ralph Hanna, Vice President of Systems for Alere. "With Camstar we will have even better enforcement and visibility into our existing processes, which will in turn help to improve efficiencies, reduce costs and improve the reliability and quality of manufacturing."
"I'm impressed with Camstar’s object-oriented design and the ability of the Camstar solution to readily mold itself to our manufacturing process," said Frank Cicero, Director, Operations Applications and Project Manager for Alere. "I've had a positive experience working with the Camstar delivery team in the past, and I look forward to partnering with them on another successful deployment."
"Alere joins leaders in the medical device and diagnostics industry who look to Camstar to help with their strategic initiatives," said Scott Toney, President and CEO of Camstar. "Our investment in state-of-the-art solutions focused on advancing product quality across the supply chain is paying off for our customers to take a strategic approach to growth and innovation."
About Alere
By developing new capabilities in near-patient diagnosis, monitoring and health management, Alere enables individuals to take charge of improving their health and quality of life at home. Alere's global leading products and services, as well as its new product development efforts, focus on infectious disease, cardiology, oncology, toxicology and women's health. Alere is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
For more information, please visit www.alere.com.
About Camstar Systems, Inc.
Camstar is a leading innovator of software solutions that advance product quality in the manufacturing industry, enabling its customers to deliver the highest quality products on time, the first time and every time. The Camstar Enterprise Platform advances product quality throughout the product lifecycle, from design to planning to supply to manufacturing to customer product experience – all in a closed-loop learning process that allows future products to be designed better and manufacturing processes to be leaner and more efficient.
Camstar is the largest in its market, providing solutions for manufacturing execution, process planning, enterprise qualitymanagement and supply chain intelligence. For over 25 years, Camstar has served hundreds of satisfied customers worldwide, including Abbott, AMD, Amkor, BAE Systems, BIOTRONIK, Boston Scientific, Canadian Solar, CIBA Vision, Cisco, Enterasys, Ericsson, Hitachi, Honeywell, IBM, Illumina, Infineon, Kodak, Life Technologies, MiaSolé, Motorola, Nortel, NXP, Pacific Biosciences, Panasonic, Q-Cells, Roche, SanDisk, Siemens, Stryker and Zeiss. For more information, please visit www.camstar.com.