VisualPlant chosen for Toyota manufacturing

Toyota plant chooses VisualPlant as its manufacturing intelligence software standard, to provide operational visibility and enable a fact-based decision making process for all plant floor operations

ATS International BV, a premier implementation partner for VisualPlant in Europe, announces that Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America (TMMNA) has licensed VisualPlant Manufacturing Intelligence Software, from EMT, for its largest North American production facility in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Georgetown is the single largest Toyota manufacturing facility outside of Japan and employs more than 7,000 workers.

It is responsible for the production of the Camry, Avalon and Solara.

Toyota joins other leading US and international manufacturers such as Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Dana, Gillette, Lear, Magna, TRW Automotive and Visteon that have chosen VisualPlant Manufacturing Intelligence Software as the visualisation and analytical layer for their plant floor.

VisualPlant provides operational visibility and enable a fact-based decision making process for all plant floor operations.

" We are obviously delighted that Toyota, one of the global leaders in manufacturing, has chosen VisualPlant as the manufacturing intelligence software standard," says ATS Group Managing Director Michael James.

"With VisualPlant we are able to meet the requirements of each department from Stamping through Assembly, without multiple customised solutions.

This will provide us with a single, integrated enterprise system for gathering and analysing production information," says Toyota's Assistant General Manager, Information Systems, Greg Wilder.

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