St. Louis, Missouri -- September 13, 2001:
Advanced Software Designs, the leading developer
and supplier of Product Development and Regulatory Compliance Software
to the mid- and upper-tier process manufacturing market, today
announced a major new agreement with Corporação
Industrial do Norte, S.A. (CIN) to license its ProductVision®
Product Development System.
CIN
has chosen ProductVision to streamline their extensive new product
development efforts, starting in Portugal, with future rollout of the
product worldwide. CIN will leverage the integration that ASD
has developed to link ProductVision and the ASW4, their Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) System, to greatly reduce the time required
for formula development. The have licensed ProductVision Formula
Management, Approval Routing, Full Audit Tracking, Project Management,
and Data Integration Modules.
José
Nogueira, Technical Director at CIN, commented, "We selected ASD
because of their extensive and excellent knowledge of the Paint and
Coatings industry." He added, "ProductVision offered
superior price performance over the competition and had gained
widespread approval from the project team during the evaluation."
Keith
Britton, ASD's European Business Development Director, said, "I am
happy to welcome CIN to a growing list of European clients who are
reaping the benefits of using ProductVision to improve their product
development capabilities." He added, "CIN evaluated a
list of competitive products and quickly realized that ProductVision
provided the best solution to meet the needs of a European paint and
coating manufacturer."
CIN joins an extensive list of manufacturing companies that utilize the
ProductVision Product Development System.
About
CIN
CIN
(www.cin.pt) is the market-leading paint company in the Iberian
Peninsula, established in its present form in 1926. The company
has five manufacturing sites with its main factory and head office in
Maia, near Porto. The group currently has around 1100 employees
of which over 90 are in the R&D and Quality departments.
Fields
of activity include architectural and decorative pains, industrial
finished for wood, plastic and metal, powder coatings, plus paints for
the transport and refinish markets. The Cin group comprises CIN,
LacoseSotinco and NITIN in Portugal and Barnices Valentine and Disa (Canarias)
in Spain. Furthermore, it has associated manufacturing companies
in Angola and Mozambique and licenses Sita in Cabo Verde.
CIN
has a major presence in the protective coatings market via CIN CROS
brand name, which is active throughout Iberia and additionally
manufactures specialist fire retardant coatings.
About Advanced Software Designs
ASD exemplifies its commitment to
world-class integrated product development software solutions through its integrations at
various mid- to large-size, leading-edge global and domestic companies. ASD serves
the food and beverage, cosmetic, paint and coatings, chemical, and ink vertical markets.
Advanced Software Designs has been serving
the batch process manufacturing industries for two decades. Headquartered in St.
Louis, MO, ASD offers total product development software solutions.
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ProductVision® is a trademark of Advanced
Software Designs.
Contact:
Ted Pliakos
Advanced Software Designs
636.532.6021 PHONE
636.532.2935 FAX |
