Chapter 2 in Camstar’s eBook Series Features Real Business Results from Top Manufacturers
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (April 30, 2009) – Camstar Systems, Inc. today announced the release of its latest eBook “The Business Case for Advancing Product Quality.”
The eBook is Chapter 2 in Camstar’s series “Winning Profits in the Age of Continuous Innovation.” In Chapter 1 Camstar defined its model for closed-loop quality. Chapter 2 outlines the framework needed to measure advancements in innovation, quality and margin that can be achieved through a closed-loop approach to Advancing Product Quality.
“This eBook is a valuable resource for manufacturers seeking to sustain innovation while ensuring product quality and lowering operational costs,” said Karim Lokas, Camstar’s Vice President of Product Strategy. “We examined top manufacturers in Life Science, Solar and High Tech industries in various stages of adopting a product-centric, closed-loop quality approach. We found that they have achieved significant improvements in market share and margins while protecting their brands, giving them substantial advantage over their peers that use traditional approaches to quality processes and systems.”
The eBook documents results from manufacturers who have:
• Reduced field events by more than 60%
• Increased solar cell efficiency by 19%
• Increased units shipped in a quarter by 25%
• Increased throughput by 35% without capital asset increases
• Dramatically improved time to market
• Saved millions in operational costs.
The eBook is available for download at:
www.camstar.info/ebook_chapter2
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, 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, including solutions for manufacturing execution, process planning, enterprise quality management, and manufacturing intelligence. For over 25 years, Camstar has served hundreds of satisfied customers worldwide, including Boston Scientific, Kodak, Carl Zeiss, Life Technologies, Beijing SE Potevio Mobile Communications, ZOLL, CIBA Vision, AMD, BIOTRONIK, Hitachi, IBM and Eagle Test.
For more information, please visit www.camstar.com.