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CIOREVIEW.COM OCTOBER 27 - 2014T h e N a v i g a t o r f o r E n t e r p r i s e S o l u t i o n s
Ultriva
Editor-in-Chief
Pradeep Shankar
An annual listing of 20 companies that are in the forefront of tackling Manufacturing Technology challenges and impacting the marketplace
recognized by magazine as
Description:Company:Ultriva Provides cloud-based
solutions that enable companies to stream-line their supply chain to drive growth and profit-ability.
Key Person:Narayan Laksham, Founder & CEO
Website:ultriva.com
The global manufacturing industry is witnessing a state of notable flux. After years of being a damper in economic growth, manufacturing is now seen as the reviving potion to the adverse residues left behind by
the financial services sector. While manufacturing in advanced economies, succumbed to outsourcing a few years ago, the manufacturing activity in the U.S. is poised for a comeback. The manufacturing shift to the east is fast getting retraced, as production units are now preferred closer to the home country rather than an offshore location. Manufacturers in the west have moved up the value chain to concentrate on more technically advanced industries or products and in the process have also become leaner. In the second quarter of 2014 manufacturing productivity in the U.S. increased by 3.3 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S.).
Innovative manufacturing, whether it is investment in research and development, improving back office or sales and marketing operations is seen as the key factor driving global competitiveness in manufacturing companies. It has dawned on several countries that competitive manufacturing is the nucleus of an economy because of the vital role it plays in the country’s long-term prosperity. It creates skilled jobs,
generates revenues in the form of exports and investments. It also plays a pivotal role in terms of its contribution to the physical infrastructure of an economy.
The global competitive landscape for manufacturing will eventually restructure the drivers of economic development; pave a way for high value job creation, innovation, and sustainable growth.
In this edition of CIO Review, we bring to you “20 Most Promising Manufacturing Technology Solution Providers 2014” and “20 Most Promising Manufacturing Consulting Providers,” featuring the best solution and consulting providers offering technology and services to the manufacturing industry. The companies listed here showcase extensive business knowledge and innovative strategies combined with talent base across locations.
A distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, CMOs, VCs, analysts and the CIO Review editorial board has selected top players from over thousand companies. The listing provides a look into how manufacturing solutions work in the real world, so that you can gain a comprehensive understanding of what technologies are available, which are right for you, and how they shape up against the competition.
20 Most Promising Manufacturing Tech Solution Providers
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Company Description
Alternative Technology Solutions Aliso Viejo, CA alttechsolutions.com
ASI DATAMYTE Plymouth, MN asidatamyte.com
B-Scada Crystal River, FL scada.com
Critical Manufacturing Porto, Portugal criticalmanufacturing.com
CTSI-Global Memphis, TN ctsi-global.com
Hyla Soft Chicago, IL hylasoft.com
iDashboards Troy, MI iDashboards.com
INDuSTRIoS Software oakville, oN industrios.com
Levergent Technologies Schaumburg, IL levergent.com
Mazik Global Park Ridge, IL mazikglobal.com
Management
Vivian Keena, CEo
Rick Bump, President
Ron DeSerranno, CEo
Francisco Almada-Lobo, CEo
James Hanauer, CTo
Ettore Soldi, Managing Director, North America
Shadan Malik, President & CEo
Renato DeGasperis, President
Venkat Sankaran, Managing Director
Sid Siddiqui, President
Brings the best of the cloud to manufacturers through service, solutions, and industry expertise.
Provider of enterprise-class, integrated quality management solutions.
Specializes in visualization of real-time data for manufacturing, power and utilities, and building automation using HMI and SCADA software products.
Provides manufacturers of complex, high tech discrete products, a manufacturing execution and intelligence system that empowers them to achieve their goals.
Provides supply chain management expertise and technology, enabling shippers and logistics service providers to manage and control all aspects of their supply chains.
Provides end-to-end consulting services and technology solutions to all manufacturing companies.
Provides easy-to-build, dynamic dashboards, giving real meaning to raw data in a visually rich and engaging manner.
uses technology and business process improvements to help manufacturing firms optimize their investment in inventory and improve customer satisfaction and profitability.
Provides robust wireless solutions for enterprise manufacturing intelligence and traceability management targeted at the manufacturing industry.
Provides a unique industry experience in ERP, CRM, cloud, mobile and enterprise social networking solutions.
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Company Description
Panasonic Factory Solutions Company of America Rolling Meadows, IL panasonicfa.com
Pegasystems Cambridge, MA pega.com
Profit Velocity Solutions San Francisco, CA profitvelocity.com
Sage Clarity Chicago, IL sageclarity.com
SeQent ontario, Canada seqent.com
To-Increase Veenendaal, Netherlands to-increase.com
Trayak Mason, oH trayak.com
ultriva Cupertino, CA ultriva.com
Visual Components Espoo, Finland visualcomponents.com
Worksoft Dallas, TX worksoft.com
Management
M. Faisal Pandit,President
Bruce Williams, VP for Manufacturing and High Technology
Michael Rothschild, CEO
John Oskin, CEO
Scott Burns, CTO
Cornelis Bosch, CEO
Prashant Jagtap, Founder & President/CEO
Narayan Laksham, Founder & CEO
Juha Renfors, CEO
Robert Axtman, CEO, VCNA
Jim Kent, CEO
Provides Panasonic manufacturing equipment, MES software, and other services to improve throughput and efficiency while keeping quality reliably high.
Provides Better Business Software that unites customer engagement with the business processes.
Provides a unique platform for continuous profit improvement called PV Accelerator™ which allows manufacturers to achieve gains in cash, profit, and RoA.
Provides a platform which combines best of breed mobile and web applications with rich data analytics and visualization to enhance supply chain and manufacturing performance.
Provides wireless alarm and event dispatch, Andon-industrial digital signage, and wireless Kanban solutions that accelerate decision making and improve productivity.
From on-premise enterprise software to cloud apps, To-Increase provides industry, integration and business productivity solutions that help discrete manufacturers reduce risk and operate more efficiently.
Provides manufacturers with a portfolio of enterprise consulting and software solutions using sustainable strategies to design and manufacture eco-friendly products.
Provides cloud-based solutions that enable companies to streamline their supply chain to drive growth and profitability.
A 3D manufacturing simulation and visualization specialist offering manufacturing companies a cost effective way to build and simulate their total process solutions.
A leading global provider of business process validation software for packaged enterprise applications.
20 Most Promising Manufacturing Tech Solution Providers