Posted on Tue, Feb 02, 2010 @ 12:42 PM
Top Medical Device Manufacturer Selects Single Platform for Manufacturing Execution and Quality Management to Enable Quality Improvements and to Reduce Risk
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (February 2, 2010) - Camstar Systems, Inc. announced today that Terumo Cardiovascular Systems (CVS), a premier global provider of medical devices focused on cardiac and vascular specialties, has selected the Camstar Enterprise PlatformTM to support continuous improvement, and to ensure consistent process enforcement and top product quality across the enterprise. The multi-site deployment of Camstar's integrated enterprise Manufacturing Execution (MES), Quality Management (QMS) - including Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA), Event Management and Nonconformance Management - and Manufacturing Intelligence capabilities, will help close the loop on manufacturing and quality processes.
"Terumo CVS delivers precisely designed and meticulously manufactured products to our customers," said Mark Lincoln, Vice President of Operations for Terumo CVS. "Our objective with Camstar is to drive continuous improvement in our manufacturing processes and quality systems. Camstar's closed-loop approach to quality will help us move beyond traditional compliance-focused processes to a proactive environment with early detection and prevention of issues, the visibility to quickly find and correct root causes and drive consistency across all plants in order to achieve world class manufacturing."
"We needed a proven solution in the Medical Device industry that we could deploy quickly for immediate benefits," said Kevin Doughty, Director of Supply Chain for Terumo CVS. "Camstar stands out for its integrated and easy-to-use MES and QMS, robust technology that will grow with us, knowledgeable people and totally satisfied customers. We are confident that with Camstar we'll move our processes forward rapidly."
"Medical Device companies continue to adopt Camstar's Enterprise Platform for their complex, global operations," said Jason Adams, Camstar's Vice President of Sales for North America and Europe. "As they focus on achieving consistent high product quality across the global value chain, they rely on a comprehensive platform for manufacturing execution and quality to make it possible."
Learn more about Version 4.5 of Camstar's Enterprise Platform for Advancing Product Quality.
About Terumo
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation manufactures and markets medical devices for the global cardiac surgery market and is the U.S. distributor for Vascutek® Vascular Grafts. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan with manufacturing operations in Ann Arbor; Elkton, Maryland; and Ashland, Massachusetts. It is one of several subsidiaries of Terumo Corporation of Japan that is focused exclusively on cardiac and vascular specialties, including Terumo Heart Inc., developer of a ventricular assist device and Vascutek Ltd., a global leader in the design and manufacture of vascular grafts.
For more information, visit http://www.terumo-cvs.com/.
About Camstar Systems, Inc.
Camstar is a leading innovator of software solutions that advance product quality in the manufacturing industry, enabling its customers to deliver the highest quality products on time, the first time, every time. The Camstar Enterprise Platform advances product quality throughout the product lifecycle, from design to planning to supply to manufacturing to customer product experience - all in a closed-loop learning process that allows future products to be designed better and manufacturing processes to be leaner and more efficient.
Camstar is the largest in its market, providing solutions for manufacturing execution, process planning, enterprise quality management and manufacturing intelligence. For over 20 years, Camstar has served hundreds of satisfied customers worldwide, including Abbott, AMD, Amkor, Arcelor, Beijing SE Potevio Mobile Communications, BIOTRONIK, Boston Scientific, Canadian Solar, CIBA Vision, Emcore, Hitachi, IBM, Kodak, Life Technologies, Luvata, MiaSole, Noven Pharmaceutical, NXP, Q-Cells, Roche, SanDisk, Xilinx, Zeiss, and ZOLL.
For more information, please visit http://www.camstar.com/.
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Posted on Wed, Nov 11, 2009 @ 12:32 PM
Camstar's Manufacturing Platform to Support Commercialization, Production Volume and Quality Enforcement
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (November 11, 2009) - Camstar Systems, Inc. announced today that Pacific Biosciences, a leader in the development of a transformative Single Molecule Real Time (SMRTTM) DNA sequencing platform, has selected the Camstar ManufacturingTM enterprise software platform to enable its critical transition from product development to high-volume production, and to ensure consistent top product quality.
As an industry innovator, Pacific Biosciences is growing rapidly, and the scalable manufacturing platform will enable the company to shorten time-to-volume and rapidly develop, roll out and enforce best practices across new production lines and plants.
"Pacific Biosciences is committed to delivering innovative products with the highest price performance in the industry," said Bruce Leisz, Vice President of Operations and Program Management for Pacific Biosciences. "Camstar's manufacturing execution platform will provide visibility and consistent control over our expanding manufacturing processes and resources. Access to a rich set of intelligence about our processes accelerates our ability to continuously innovate and improve."
"Camstar is seeing rapid adoption of our solutions across the most innovative Diagnostics and Biotechnology industries," said Jason Adams, Camstar's Vice President of Sales for North America and Europe. "As companies commercialize their breakthrough products, they realize that achieving consistently high product quality in the midst of highly complex processes requires a comprehensive platform for manufacturing execution and quality."
See Camstar's Enterprise Platform for Advancing Product Quality, configured specifically for Biotechnology.
About Pacific Biosciences
Pacific Biosciences' mission is to transform the way humankind acquires processes and interprets data from living systems. The company has developed a disruptive technology platform for the real-time detection of biological events at single molecule resolution. Single Molecule Real Time (SMRTTM) Biology promises to revolutionize the life sciences by revealing the underlying networks that define living systems. The first application for the SMRT Biology platform is a paradigm changing approach to DNA sequencing. The SMRT Sequencing System will ultimately make it possible to sequence individual genomes as part of routine medical care. DNA sequencing is expected to be the first of many transformative SMRT Biology applications that will benefit society by driving radical advances in fields such as personalized medicine, agriculture, clean energy, and global health.
About Camstar Systems, Inc.
Camstar is the largest innovator of software solutions that advance product quality, including manufacturing execution, process planning, enterprise quality management, and manufacturing intelligence. Camstar serves hundreds of satisfied customers worldwide, including Abbott, AMD, Amkor, Arcelor, Beijing SE PMC, BIOTRONIK, Boston Scientific, Canadian Solar, Emcore, Hitachi, IBM, Kodak, Life Technologies, MiaSole, NXP, Q-Cells, Roche, SanDisk, Xilinx and Zeiss.
For more information, please visit http://www.camstar.com/.
Posted on Wed, Nov 12, 2008 @ 03:49 PM
Adams Brings a Deep Knowledge of the User Community and Business Issues Facing the Manufacturing Industry
Charlotte, NC - November 12, 2008 - Camstar, the leading provider of Enterprise Manufacturing and Quality Execution solutions, today announced that Jason Adams, Vice President of Sales, North America and Europe, has been named to the Board of Directors for the Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) International. MESA is a community of manufacturing end users, systems integrators, hardware and software suppliers, industry analysts and consultants.
Adams has extensive Life Sciences and High Tech manufacturing experience and has been a thought leader at Camstar for more than 15 years. Jason's deep understanding of the manufacturing community and business issues facing Life Sciences and High Tech Industries will greatly assist MESA in guiding new topic areas, programs and informational materials.
"Jason Adams' experience and expertise in ‘Next Generation' Manufacturing and Quality aligns very well to MESA's strategic initiative for Quality and Regulatory Compliance," said John Dyck, MESA Board Chairman from Rockwell Automation. "We expect that he will take an active leadership position in helping to educate end users and the industry as a whole in this key area."
Adams will leverage the relationships he has cultivated over many years to encourage end user involvement and ultimately drive new membership to the organization. He will also bring new opportunities to MESA through his extensive experience in defining and penetrating new markets, and will help further define and position the future of strategic Manufacturing, Quality and Intelligence solutions in the context of the global enterprise.
"MESA International is an outstanding organization that has exhibited its thought leadership time and time again through its numerous conferences, research and publications," said Adams. "Camstar has long been an active member of MESA, and we are pleased to expand the relationship through this appointment."
About MESA International
MESA is an association of manufacturers/producers, solution providers and industry professionals, promoting innovation and best practices sharing, with a goal of delivering valuable knowledge around operations-centric enterprise solutions. MESA defines industry standard methodologies and approaches that allow manufacturers/producers to bridge execution excellence with enterprise level requirements. MESA's industry events, symposiums and publications help cultivate understanding, analysis and the exchange of strategies and innovation to achieve manufacturing leadership. For more information, please visit: http://www.mesa.org/.
About Camstar Systems, Inc.
Camstar's Enterprise Manufacturing Execution, Quality and Intelligence platform enables "Closed-Loop Quality Execution," the end-to-end business process that surrounds manufacturing and quality operations. Camstar's unparalleled solution optimizes the innovation and risk equation by monitoring and controlling global manufacturing and quality, and by delivering process interoperability and best practices. The result is shorter time-to-market and time-to-volume, the highest quality products, and leaner, more efficient operations.
Designed for ultimate configurability and built on a service-oriented architecture, Camstar's comprehensive solution set includes industry-specific, out-of-the-box applications and a proven implementation methodology that ensures successful deployment and rapid time to benefit. More than 100 leading companies, including Boston Scientific, Zeiss, Applied Biosystems, ZOLL, CIBA Vision, BIOTRONIK, Stirling Medical Innovations, IBM, Hitachi, AMD, IBM, Kodak and Sony Ericsson BMC rely on Camstar as a trusted software partner.
For more information, please visit http://www.camstarsystems.cn/ or http://www.camstar.com/.
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