World’s leading manufacturers showcase their Lighthammer-based solutions before a record crowd
Exton, PA - September 20, 2004 Lighthammer announced today that its annual users conference exceeded all expectations with 200 customers, prospects, and partners in attendance. During the two-day event Lighthammer customers presented applications based on Lighthammer’s market-leading Collaborative Manufacturing Suite software. Representatives from Dow Corning, Whirlpool, Procter & Gamble, Colgate, Philips, Air Products, and INCO all presented compelling solutions to operational excellence challenges facing their businesses. SAP presented its Adaptive Manufacturing initiative and outlined the important role that Lighthammer serves in that initiative. AMR discussed their Supply Network Operations (SNO) model and positioned the significant role of Lighthammer products within the model.
Conference attendees included delegates from some of the world’s premier manufacturers representing a variety of industries including Aerospace and Defense, Food and Beverage, Consumer Products and Packaged Goods, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Engineered Products and Energy. The conference attendance more than doubled over last year’s event reflecting Lighthammer’s rapid growth and market adoption. “We’re pleased with the outstanding turnout which included customers from 5 continents representing almost 100 of the world’s leading manufacturers”, stated Russell Fadel, CEO of Lighthammer.
“The attendee growth parallels our company growth which is driven by the 5X – 10X returns on investment that our enterprise customers are receiving from the use of Lighthammer’s Collaborative Manufacturing Suite .”During the event, Lighthammer presented its latest products and capabilities and provided a preview of its upcoming Collaborative Manufacturing Suite release. Lighthammer showcased new capabilities in the areas of: enterprise security management, plant-to-enterprise synchronization, report and content generation, and its SAP composite application (xApp), MPI. During the conference Lighthammer held its first Life Sciences Special Interest group meeting focused on the unique issues facing customers in highly regulated industries.
Attendees excited by the enthusiasm of fellow Lighthammer users, left the conference armed with new ideas on how to solve some of their most difficult problems and filled with insight into the possibilities offered by Lighthammer’s Collaborative Manufacturing Suite platform.
Background Information:
About Lighthammer®, a privately held corporation headquartered in Exton, PA., is the leading supplier of Manufacturing Intelligence and Collaborative Manufacturing software products. Lighthammer's Collaborative Manufacturing Suite, combines Illuminator™, the market leading Manufacturing Intelligence Server, with Xacute™, its revolutionary Collaborative Execution engine. This unique convergence provides global manufacturers with all of the capabilities required to develop and deploy operational excellence and real-time performance management applications. Lighthammer software is currently in use at hundreds of companies worldwide and has been selected by more than 100 of the Fortune 500 manufacturers as their Collaborative Manufacturing solution.
Further information on Lighthammer and its products can be found at www.lighthammer.com .
