Tacton Streamlines Product Configuration for FlexLink Customers
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FlexLink takes the principles of a leading configuration system and applies them to its business quotation process. The result: customers can configure their own solution on-line, instantly, and place their orders just minutes later.
Stockholm, Sweden - May 2, 2007 - Tacton Systems, the leading vendor of configuration software, announced today that FlexLink AB, a global supplier of process automation technology for industrial manufacturing, has implemented Tacton Configurator to enable its customers to configure their own industrial conveyor solution via the FlexLink website.
FlexLink supplies a wide range of products and technologies to meet assorted handling requirements and enhance the production flow within many different kinds of today's industries, from automotive and electronics to food and dairy, medical and pharmaceutical, and paper converting. The new web-based system replaces a labour-intensive system of manual catalogues and sales visits, and has been market-developed over the past two years.
Using Tacton Configurator integrated with their Enterprise Resource Planning system, the company has replaced conventional salesrep-based techniques with a web application, where the user selects a conveyor design from a digital catalogue. They are then presented with different input requirements and options in order to configure a model. Once these configuration requirements have been specified, the Tacton Configurator will propose a solution, complete with delivery information. Customers can also generate and download a 3D CAD model of their selected design. The web-configurator system is available 24/7.
Klas Orsvrn, Executive VP, R&D, Tacton Systems, says: "An important aspect is the Configurator's integration with FlexLink's Enterprise Resource Planning system, so it can gather and present all the information that a client will require at a moment's notice."
Johan Wester, Engineering Tools Driver at FlexLink, says: "The Configurator solution dramatically reduces the amount of time and administration necessary in putting together a quotation - both from the customer's point-of-view, and that of FlexLink."
About Tacton Systems
Tacton is based on two decades of cutting edge R&D in product configuration and sales configuration, beginning in 1987 at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science. Tacton Configurator is in production use since 1998 by a wide spectrum of leading manufacturing companies around the world, such as Ericsson, GE Healthcare, ABB, Pentair, Hoffman Enclosures, ASSA ABLOY, Black Box, Albany Door Systems and Flkt Woods. For more information: www.tacton.com
About FlexLink
FlexLink is a leading global systems supplier of production logistics solutions to assembly and manufacturing industries. Based in Gteborg, Sweden, FlexLink employs 650 people, operates 25 sales units and is represented in 60 countries. In 2006, group turnover was MSEK 1,278 (138 million Euros). For more information: www.flexlink.com
For more information, contact:
Tacton Systems
Klas Orsvrn, Executive Vice President, R&D
Telephone: +46 (0)8 690 07 50
Cell: +46 (0)70 657 58 70
FlexLink
Johan Wester, Engineering Tools Driver
Telephone: +46 (0)31 337 31 04
