CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
4 June 2007
Product News
Camstar Becomes a MES Partner for PTC® Windchill® MPMLinkT in Life Sciences and High Tech Industries
Camstar Systems, Inc, a leading provider of Enterprise Manufacturing Execution and Quality Systems, announced an agreement with PTC to join PTC's Partner AdvantageT Program at the Gold Tier Level. Camstar will be one of a select group of Windchill MPMLink Launch Partners. Camstar Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solutions will provide a direct link and constant feedback between the design and manufacturing processes in the Life Sciences and High Tech industries.
Life Sciences and High Tech companies must innovate around new opportunities, quickly getting to market, while at the same time ensuring product quality. This proves to be a challenge, as innovation by its very nature induces variability. The integration of PLM and MES provides a framework for enabling rapid change due to innovation, while at the same time managing risk, ensuring product quality, enforcing the adoption of new processes and maximizing production yields.
"The business process collaboration required to meet the challenges facing today's manufacturers can only be achieved through the use of fully integrated systems, said Alex Mackenzie, vice president, product management, manufacturing and service solutions, PTC. "The combination of digital manufacturing with Windchill MPMLink plus synchronization with Camstar solutions will allow customers to achieve the goal of concurrent product and manufacturing process development. This will dramatically improve time-to-market and help ensure that quality is built in by design. Camstar was chosen for the program because of its excellent reputation in Life Sciences and High Tech and to better serve our joint customers."
Integrating PLM and MES enables real time parametric process and product analytical data to be used for continuous improvement of both product and process design. Connected PLM and MES systems improve compliance by providing regulators with documented evidence of the manufacturer's process understanding and control strategies. Integrated systems can improve business processes and facilitate design, operational excellence, manufacturing control, quality management, change management and requirements management.
Camstar provides a comprehensive manufacturing application that is a highly configurable, best-in-class Manufacturing Execution System (MES) created to integrate quality into the manufacturing process and track all production activity. Camstar provides global enterprises with the flexibility to meet individual plant requirements without software modifications, so each plant can maintain the required level of autonomy while leveraging a common manufacturing system supported across the entire production network.
"Life Sciences and High Tech manufacturers need solutions that will streamline and improve the design for manufacturability; PLM and MES integration enables optimized manufacturing process management," said Rob Rudder, senior vice president, Camstar. "It is important that these manufacturers find solutions that will streamline and improve collaboration between research and development, engineering and manufacturing to improve the design for manufacturability and shorten time to market. Integration to the MES manufacturing database containing the "As Built" records is a necessary step if you want to enable continuous improvement of both product and process design."
For more information, please visit http://www.camstar.com/
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