Exact JobBOSS Partners with Okuma
Partnership will deliver more accurate and efficient production data to users of Exact JobBOSS
Chicago, Illinois - September 6, 2006 - Exact Software(TM), a leading provider of solutions that connect the people, processes and knowledge essential to an organization, today announced that the company's Exact JobBOSS® division has partnered with Okuma to deliver critical production data to its customers.
Okuma is the world's largest computer numeric controls (CNC) and machining technology company, including vertical and horizontal machining centers, lathes, double column machining centers, grinders, and wheel machines.
In the spirit of continuing to deliver outstanding value to their customers, Exact JobBOSS has tapped into Okuma's vision of a plug and play control platform that allows their intelligent, flexible machines on the shop floor to "think" for themselves. This platform is Okuma THINC.
Okuma THINC, a standard, off-the-shelf PC platform is designed to enable access to almost any application and peripheral including shop management systems, and interfaces with bar coders, feeders, robots, probes and tool setters to help streamline production. Through THINC, communication with established business and production systems is immediately available.
"THINC is a revolutionary development in communicating machine and production data within a plant," said Bob Tain, Director of the THINC Tank at Okuma. "Realizing that we needed the right partners to turn our vision into reality, Okuma contacted JobBOSS, whom we felt was a perfect fit as a technology and innovation partner."
This partnership will result in production data such as job starts, machine hours and part counts coming directly off the machine into Exact JobBOSS, providing a level of accuracy unattainable through traditional data entry methods.
"This partnership will deliver a higher level of efficiency to our customers," said Steve Massey, general manager for Exact JobBOSS. "By pulling production data directly into JobBOSS, our customers will have the most up to date production information in real-time."
See JobBOSS running on Okuma machines at the Okuma IMTS booth (Booth # 8200 South Hall A). JobBOSS staff will be in the Okuma booth during the show to answer questions about the JobBOSS/Okuma relationship.
Exact JobBOSS is the leader in shop management software for job shops, small to medium-sized make-to-order, engineer-to-order, contract and mixed-mode manufacturers, and has maintained that leadership standing since it was originally developed in Minneapolis, MN in 1984. Customers worldwide benefit from the control that JobBOSS gives them to easily manage all of the processes and changes their shops experience on a daily basis. For more information, please visit exactamerica.com/jobboss
About Okuma
Okuma is known for its technology leadership and world-class manufacturing, product quality and dedication to customer service. Okuma products are used in the automotive, aerospace and defense, construction and farming equipment, oil and energy, medical, mold and die, and fluid power industries.
Machines include vertical and horizontal machining centers, lathes, double column machining centers, grinders, and wheel machines that offer users high throughput, high accuracy, and reliable solutions to production machining operations. For more information, please visit www.okuma.com
About Exact Software(TM)
Established in 1984, Exact Software is one of the world's leading providers of business software solutions. Its integrated solutions comprise traditional Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as well as related software solutions such as Human Resource Management (HRM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Project Management, Business Intelligence/Analytics (BI/BA), and Electronic Workflow.
Exact is headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands and has offices in Europe, the Middle East, North and South America, Asia, Australia and Africa. With over 2,700 employees, subsidiaries in more than 40 countries, solutions available in 40 languages, Exact currently serves customers in more than 125 countries across all five continents. Exact Holding N.V. (EXACT) has been listed on Eurolist by Euronext Amsterdam since June 1999.
Exact Software North America is a division of Exact Holding N.V. and has its headquarters in Andover, Massachusetts. Exact Software North America is responsible for the management, development, marketing, sales, and services associated with Exact e-Synergy®, Exact Globe Enterprise(TM), Exact Macola® ERP, Exact JobBOSS®, Exact MAX®, Exact Alliance®, and Vanguard Business Analytics(TM) brands in the United States and Canada. For more information, please visit: exactamerica.com
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Brian Callahan,
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Exact Software NA,
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