JustSystems Solutions for Manufacturing

Discrete, process, high tech and automotive manufacturers are under pressure to reduce costs and find new ways to compete in a crowded global marketplace. The reality is that product advantages aren’t enough; companies must compete based on cost, brand and ability to respond to market changes. Key to this is finding more efficient and effective ways of creating, distributing and making use of enterprise information—as a basis for communicating with customers and trading partners, informing decision making and improving the effectiveness of key processes. JustSystems provides powerful solutions that allow manufacturers to dramatically improve how information is created, published and consumed.

JustSystems solutions for manufacturing include:

Structured Authoring and Publishing

• Accelerate creation and improve quality and consistency of business-critical documents
• Reduce the cost and complexity of content localization and maintenance over time

JustSystems solutions allow both technical authors and business contributors to easily create valid XML to accelerate the creation, simplify the maintenance and improve the quality of content found in business critical documents including patent applications, technical documentation, parts catalogs, marketing brochures, and any other key documents. Structured authoring provides the basis for conversion, reuse, localization and multi-channel publishing of business critical content.

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Information Sharing and Collaboration

• Dramatically improve the accuracy and consistency of data-rich documents
• Improve dynamic information sharing across functions, phases and with trading partners

JustSystems solutions allow you to bring together disparate, distributed data and content and combine it in a single dynamic document that is always up to date. These dynamic documents ensure that the information they contain is always accurate, which is particularly critical in areas where there is an exceptionally high cost of introducing inaccurate information into a process. Stale or inaccurate information can lead to costly errors in product design and manufacturing or poor utilization of production capacity. Manufacturers often use these dynamic documents for transferring information between sequential or concurrent design and development phases or for sharing capacity and demand forecast data with suppliers or contract manufacturers. These dynamic documents also eliminate the manual reconciliation and validation of data that is necessary in sales and operations planning (S&OP) functions that are based on traditional spreadsheets and other static and disconnected documents.

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Document Process Transformation

• Eliminate error introduction from manual rekeying and scanning of documents
• Improve the speed and efficiency of manual and document-centric processes

In many manufacturing processes, there are manual gaps between isolated “silos of automation.” These manual gaps are typically the document-centric phases of a process. JustSystems solutions help to streamline business processes by bridging the gap between automated transactional workflows and more human-centric document-based workflows. JustSystems allows organizations to automatically capture transactional information and pull it into dynamic documents for human review and analysis. Likewise, information within documents can be automatically processed by back-office systems or packaged and delivered as an XML stream without manual rekeying or scanning of information.

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