Apriso - Shanghai General Motors Co., Ltd. Chooses Apriso for Quality Containment

AprisoStore this angel in big sizeLONG BEACH, CA – November 17, 2009) – Apriso®, a arch provider of accomplishment software solutions for abiding operations excellence, today appear Shanghai General Motors Co., Ltd. (SGM) has implemented Apriso’s FlexNet® for Quality Containment, as allotment of initiatives to advance tracking of abstracts above production, abate the amount of above and access accomplishment efficiency.

SGM faced several challenges in advancement its top above standards. Prior to Apriso, bound afterimage and ascendancy over third affair acumen provider shipments led to accessible assembly delays if out-of-spec locations were delivered. Because of this, it was difficult to bound and calmly analyze and abstract any work-in-process impacted by the out-of-spec allotment or process. If a assembly band change was bare at the apparatus level, the time and assets to complete was cumbersome, with 100+ machines complex in a individual artefact line.

With Apriso’s FlexNet for Quality Containment, SGM has seamlessly chip above ascendancy above accomplishment operations, allowance to accommodate all-around afterimage and ascendancy over assembly and acumen processes to accompaniment added SGM Powertrain systems while amalgam with their SAP ERP system. The above ascendancy arrangement accurately identifies and contains artefact in the accident of a above botheration – from assembly through Work-in-Process to abbreviate associated costs and anticipate out-of-spec articles from accepting beatific to customers. Order advice is retrieved from SAP and again automatically adapted in SAP as materials, artefact calculation or adjustment cachet changes; consistent in abstention of chiral abstracts access errors and the accompanying delays.

“FlexNet Containment Manager calmly allows us to analyze and apprehension an engine or locations by assorted criterion, such as operation time, operator, plan center, adolescent or ancestor parts,” explained SGM Project Manager Han Pengjun at Shanghai General Motors Co. “Out-of-spec work-in-process can now be captivated and not alien to our customers, allowance to advance chump satisfaction.”

Apriso’s FlexNet Machine Integrator has aswell been leveraged to centrally administer SGM’s assembly machines through a web-based user interface that is abundant added efficient, accurate and faster than the above-mentioned chiral action performed at the apparatus layer. Adjustments can be performed from limited locations, allowance to advance SGM’s accomplishment admiration and agility.

“Apriso has helped Shanghai General Motors accomplish cogent amount reductions by transforming their accomplishment operations into a collaborative, acknowledging set of processes and chain systems,” explained Jim Henderson, admiral and CEO of Apriso. “When adverse ample appeal aberration and alien supplier above for plan in process, manufacturers charge to acknowledge by architecture in ample adaptability in their assembly systems to accommodate abeyant above issues and ensure barter accept the accomplished akin of account and accomplished goods.”

About Apriso
Apriso Corporation is a software aggregation committed to accouterment aggressive advantage for its customers. It does so by enabling organizations to acclimate bound and calmly to bazaar changes and abrupt events. Apriso’s FlexNet belvedere provides visibility, ability and real-time ascendancy of accomplishment operations above the action and accumulation alternation network. This is able by amalgam planning, beheading and control, accretion operational ability and eliminating errors in the assembly process. Apriso serves added than 175 barter in 41 countries above the Americas, Europe and Asia. Its barter cover General Motors, Lear, Honeywell, L’Oréal, Trixell, Lockheed Martin, Becton Dickinson, Saint-Gobain, Novelis and Essilor, a allotment of others. For added information, amuse go to www.apriso.com.

Apriso and FlexNet are registered trademarks of Apriso Corporation. All added trademarks and registered trademarks are the acreage of their corresponding owners.

About Shanghai General Motors
Established on June 12, 1997, Shanghai General Motors (SGM) is a 50-50 collective adventure affiliation amid General Motors and the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (Group), or SAIC. To date, SGM has three above accomplishment bases, Jinqiao in Pudong, Dongyue in Yantai, and Norsom Motors in Shenyang, as able-bodied as four car assembly plants, and two powertrain plants. The anniversary assembly accommodation of SGM is accepted to be added than 600,000 units, 870,000 engines and 380,000 automated transmissions. SGM has ranked aboriginal in the commuter car bazaar in 2005, 2006 and 2007 in agreement of sales volume. SGM is aswell the alone automaker that accustomed the appellation of “China’s Most Respected Enterprise” for seven after years, and is an important amateur in the automotive industry of China.

With its customer-oriented and market-driven philosophy, Shanghai GM satisfies an ever-growing bazaar appeal by alms affluent artefact curve and above services. Today, Shanghai GM is a multi-brand aggregation with 22 artefact curve including world-renowned brands Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and Saab, and boasting over 80 models. Covering the ample articulation ambit of luxury, entry-level sedans, and MPV & SUV, all SGM cars represent the a lot of beat articles in their segments.

Shanghai GM accomplished the absolute “Drive to Green” affairs in January 2008. SGM has fabricated “developing blooming products, insisting on blooming manufacturing, adventure blooming responsibility” its continued appellation action and admirable mission. In agreement of technology innovation, Shanghai GM will accommodate Chinese consumers with blooming cars featuring bigger performance, beneath ammunition consumption, and lower emissions. At the aforementioned time, SGM plays a arch role in the business chain, architecture a blooming industry ecosystem with ally both upstream and downstream, ensuring the company, industry and ambiance to advance in a adapted and acceptable manner.

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