Epicor(R) Aerospace & Defense Customers Win 2010 Progressive Manufacturing 100 Award
March 23 2010 - 9:00AM
Marketwired
Epicor Software Corporation (NASDAQ: EPIC), a leading provider of
enterprise business software solutions for the midmarket and
divisions of Global 1000 companies, today announced that its
customers, Pointe Precision, Inc. and Symetrics Industries, LLC,
are winners of the sixth annual Progressive Manufacturing 100
(PM100) Awards, selected by Managing Automation Media, a Thomas
Publishing Company, LLC publication. The PM100 recognizes
best-in-class manufacturers from around the world who are using
advanced technologies to achieve business transformation.
Both Pointe Precision and Symetrics serve the aerospace and
defense industry and are leveraging Epicor to support their
manufacturing processes in order to deliver high-quality products
and devices to their customers worldwide. Pointe Precision was
named to the PM100 for its Integrated Quality Management System
initiative -- leveraging Epicor ERP and Epicor Advanced Quality,
Powered by IQS -- the company's pursuit to eliminate various
stand-alone legacy ERP systems in favor of a single-source quality
management system to help control risk, effectively handle
regulatory compliance and drive business performance. Likewise,
Symetrics made the PM100 for its Truly Paperless Production Floor
initiative, utilizing the latest in Epicor ERP to adopt the mantra
"Small Business Agility; Big Business Ability."
"Epicor salutes Pointe Precision and Symetrics for this
honorable achievement and recognition," said Malcolm Fox, director,
product marketing for Epicor. "We take pride in providing global
enterprise business solutions that satisfy the unique opportunities
and challenges of the aerospace and defense industry. With Epicor,
our customers can expect to gain efficiencies and improve
productivity by extending reach, synergy and visibility to the
organization and shop floor."
The foundation of Pointe Precision's initiative is to
consolidate disparate systems and solve communication breakdowns
between departments with a single-source ERP solution in order to
provide end-to-end quality and support work-flow best practices.
"We needed to support multiple industries with one system," said
Nicholas Sondelski, IS administrator for Pointe Precision. "Epicor
provides a single-source solution that supports work-flow best
practices. Both our customers and employees felt a positive effect
as we were able to deliver information more quickly, while being
confident that data was accurate." Epicor is enabling Pointe
Precision to respond faster to customer requests and solve quality
problems faster, supporting the company's corporate initiative to
automate quality management data and processes.
Building on improved work-flow best practices, Symetrics is
leveraging Epicor's latest next-generation ERP solution to take the
enterprise paperless. "With hard-copy documentation, we ran the
risk of documents being not current, not complete, or unavailable,
which could result in defective or delayed products," said Peter
Volkert, director of operations for Symetrics. "We are leveraging
Epicor to eliminate hard copies, thereby reducing error rates,
allowing more flexibility in product movement, improving quality
and reducing cycle time, all of which are helping to save money and
diminish our environmental footprint." It was Symetrics' close
relationship with Epicor that allowed their paperless initiative to
come to fruition. With Epicor, Symetrics has improved shop floor
efficiencies by 15%, and reduced paper use by 25% company-wide
(close to 100% on the shop floor). Furthermore, quality levels have
improved following implementation by more than 50%. Importantly,
Symetrics was able to reduce its in-process rejection rate for
rework by approximately 70% over four years, contributing
significantly to improved annual cost savings and increased
revenue.
"As we prepare for the eventual end of the Great Recession,
these winning companies dramatically underscore how the
manufacturing industry will begin to emerge in an even stronger
position once a recovery takes a firm hold," said David R.
Brousell, editor-in-chief of Managing Automation Media. "The
projects that enabled these companies to become PM100 winners
reflect great creativity and inventiveness, a determined
willingness to take risk, and an enduring resilience to continually
improve every aspect of their business. These companies are leading
the way to a better future."
The PM100 recognizes 100 projects that have achieved distinction
in at least one of the eight core disciplines defined by Managing
Automation Media as critical to business success in the years
ahead. An independent judging panel chaired by Brousell and Jeff
Moad, executive editor for Managing Automation Media reviewed the
project nominations. Winners will be honored at the Progressive
Manufacturing Awards Gala May 5, 2010 at The Breakers in PalmBeach,
Florida where more than 200 manufacturing technology executives are
expected to attend.
Epicor for Aerospace and Defense -- Enterprise
Software Solutions Epicor Aerospace and Defense is a global
ERP and aerospace manufacturing software solution designed for
manufacturing organizations who supply products and services to the
aerospace and defense industry. The solution goes beyond
traditional ERP to provide advanced quality management (AQM),
product data management (PDM), customer relationship management
(CRM), project management, supply chain management (SCM), and
more.
About Managing Automation Media Managing
Automation Media, a division of Thomas Publishing Company, LLC,
provides a complete set of decision-support informational tools for
executives and technology decision-makers at progressive
manufacturers -- companies that are using information and
automation technologies to transform their businesses and create a
sustainable competitive advantage. In North America with Managing
Automation, and now also in EMEA with Manufacturing Executive, it
delivers access to the most influential decision-makers in
manufacturing. Additional information can be found at
managingautomationmedia.com.
About Epicor Software Corporation Epicor
Software is a global leader delivering business software solutions
to the manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality and
services industries. With 20,000 customers in over 150 countries,
Epicor provides integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP),
customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management
(SCM) and enterprise retail software solutions that enable
companies to drive increased efficiency and improve profitability.
Founded in 1984, Epicor takes pride in more than 25 years of
technology innovation delivering business solutions that provide
the scalability and flexibility businesses need to build
competitive advantage. Epicor provides a comprehensive range of
services with a single point of accountability that promotes rapid
return on investment and low total cost of ownership, whether
operating business on a local, regional or global scale. The
Company's worldwide headquarters are located in Irvine, California
with offices and affiliates around the world. For more information,
visit www.epicor.com.
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Contact: Lisa Preuss Epicor Software Corporation 949/585-4235
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