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CIOREVIEW.COMJUNE 30 - 2015 MANUFACTURING TECH SPECIAL

T 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

20 Most Promising Manufacturing Tech Solution Providers 2015

Company:KEOPS Technologies, Inc.,

Description:KEOPS Technologies provides technical services and innovative solutions to improve manufacturing and operating performance of their clients.

Key Person: Lynn Kowalski,Business Development ExecutiveJean Moukhtar, Director

Website:www.keops.com

KEOPS Technologies, Inc.recognized by magazine as

An annual listing of 20 companies that are in the forefront of providingManufacturing Tech Solution and impacting the marketplace

Editor-in-ChiefPradeep Shankar

As the insatiable urge for newer products is increasingly becoming a consumer trend, manufacturers are searching for new ways to increase agility and reinvent strategies.

Operational efficiency, speed, and the ability to keep a track on the current as well as future market trends are now a top priority for manufacturers. In such a scenario, they are finding silver lining in the latest technologies that are not only helping them in gaining new opportunities but also in bringing innovative products.

As the manufacturing industry is eagerly embracing this transformation, the technologies such as 3D printing and Internet of Things are becoming a common sight even in SMBs. These technologies are benefitting manufacturers not only on the production floors but also in the entire production-to-market processes.

To help organizations find the best-of-breed manufacturing solutions that suits their business needs, in this issue of CIO Review, we present the 20 Most Promising Manufacturing Technology Solution Providers, featuring the best vendors offering technologies and services that aid in manufacturing processes. The firms featured in this issue have exhibited vast knowledge and in-depth expertise in delivering manufacturing related solutions.

A distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, analysts, and the CIO Review editorial board has selected the top players from the competitive field of manufacturing solutions. The listing provides a look into how these 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.

KEOPS Technologies, Inc.Building Environment for Innovative and Smart Manufacturing

With continuous roll-outs of innovative technology solutions, new doors of opportunities have opened for IT in product design manufacturing landscape.

Earlier, the expertise of the IT department was only limited within the internal walls of organizations. However, today they are playing a major role in streamlining the operations at the plant sites. Various manufacturing organizations across the globe are striving to adopt the latest IT solutions to enhance their product offerings. This being said, only a handful of enterprises has actually reshaped themselves as the prominent player of the manufacturing ecosystem. Montreal, Canada-based KEOPS

Technologies is one such company that delivers end-to-end solutions for driving

efficiency in the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) processes. “Our solutions cover the entire spectrum of product development, starting from strategizing, designing, and testing, to upgrading and end support consulting,” says Lynn

Kowalski, Business Development, KEOPS Technologies. The mission

statement of the company is to instill the quality and agility quotients in the products being

manufactured, ensuring yield and end consumer satisfaction.“Innovation and IT is the key to survive for manufacturing

organizations, which also plays as a differentiating factor in the competition dominant period of today,” states Kowalski. To keep their foothold strong and vehement, the company leverages both elements for optimizing their PLM offerings. “PLM is a key component to ensuring the accuracy and quality of the consumer product,” she adds. With KEOPS’s expertise in PLM space, the company bridges ERP and Shop Floor Systems to share data, models, 3D representations and virtualization, documentation, and regulatory information.

Since their inception in 1982, KEOPS has catered myriad of organizations coming from different verticals. “From having the desired agility and quality in product design that meets the global requirements, to monitoring line-to-line efficiency, reducing waste, and augmenting yield, our services span across entire manufacturing elements,” says Kowalski. KEOPS has customers in Consumer Package Goods (CPG), Energy, Food and Beverages, Packaging, and Retailers industry that span across five continents. Since each country maintains its own regulatory laws, the company ensures that their PLM and Supply Chain Management solutions remain in compliance with them.

KEOPS has partnered with multiple large technological corporations such as Dassault Systemes, InfinityQS, Rockwell Automation to lead the industry with domain expertise in Quality & Regulatory, MES, Labor, R&D, PLM, Environment, Health & Safety and Logistics. “This is represented in our core value of providing manufacturing excellence to the brand manufacturers,” declares Kowalski. The solutions for Dassault Systemes (3DS) are known today on the market as the 3D EXPERIENCE for the CPG industry. With 3DS, we provide a transformational change journey for our customers—managing the change of technology and its impact on people, processes, environment, and systems,” she adds.

KEOPS has been a source in reaching operational excellence for various customer organizations enabling them to release their products in short period of time. In an implementation highlight of the company’s solution, a global manufacturer of the food industry was able to bring optimized potential within their product development cycle after leveraging the platform and solutionsof KEOPS. “We enable them to optimize their processes through our end-to-end solutions that built a collaborative environment for them to operate their manufacturing processes,” says Kowalski. Unlike their earlier days, when the time frame for releasing the product in the market was over one year, the customer was able to complete the entire product lifecycle in three months.

Going forward, KEOPS is planning to further expand their footprint after already setting up their offices in North America, Middle-East, and Europe. With the growing demand of Big Data and mobile based solutions, the company is also keeping tabs on leveraging them to enhance their offerings.

Our solutions cover the entire spectrum of product development, starting from strategizing, designing, and testing to upgrading, and end support consulting

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Jean Moukhtar

Lynn Kowalski