ProModel Online Newsletter

Manufacturing & Logistics

Has your Lean Journey been as successful as you anticipated?

Are you just starting your Lean Journey and not sure which changes to implement first?

Is your organization meeting its performance objectives for the year?

If you can honestly answer yes to these three questions – don’t read further. But if you are like most of the other extremely busy engineers, managers, and executives we talk to, you could use some assistance in these and related areas. Now you can find out without cost or obligation, if, and precisely how, predictive technology would be of value to your department or company.

Events

• TMQ Lean Six Sigma Excellence Conference, November 17, 2005 Fort Wayne, IN

• DMC 2005 November 28-December 1, 2005 Orlando, FL

• Lean Management Conference, December 5-6, 2005 Orlando, FL

• WSC, December 4-7, 2005 Orlando, FL

We are currently offering qualified organizations in the Pacific and Mountain states a complimentary on-site, half-day evaluation of your manufacturing and business processes. You will receive a written assessment within two weeks of the visit. The assessment will include a vision of benefits and alternatives of how predictive technology can help you improve operational and financial performance as well as an outline of the major milestones and timeline to achieve them.

If your organization or another you know of could benefit from this service, simply use this link and promotion code to request the evaluation, or forward it to the appropriate people www.promodel.com/promotion code C0021XT.

This month’s release of Version 7.0 coincides with the expansion of the Manufacturing and Logistics Solutions division at ProModel. A year in the planning, it brings added capacity for services and will increase on-site offerings as well as opening the door to more up-front analysis for new customers. This expansion includes the addition of three members to our business development team located in Bethlehem PA, Detroit MI and Greenville SC. Each member brings a unique background to the manufacturing and logistics business and will provide greater customer support to our user base.

ProModel Corporation would like to welcome Jim Combs, Craig Impastato, and Erik Christ.

Jim Combs, Southeast Regional Manager
Jim began his career in 1985 with MOVATS, Inc. a subsidiary of Westinghouse’s (NSD) Nuclear Support Division in Atlanta, GA working as a Test Engineer and Project Manger. During his 9 year tenure; Jim traveled to France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Canada, Mexico, and most of the US working Refueling Outages and Plant Start Ups. In 1994 after getting burnt out of the nuclear industry, Jim took his expertise and experience to DataStream Systems Inc. an up and coming Computerized Maintenance Management (CMMS) company out of Greenville, SC. There he helped develop the project management team and was promoted to various sales positions including Sales Manger and Strategic Account Manager for the Power Generation and Oil / Gas verticals. Jim was consistently a top producer achieving quota and club member. Before joining ProModel in September, Jim worked at Indus International as a Strategic Sales Executive for the Mid-Atlantic Region selling Mobile Computing, Field Service, and Dispatch and Scheduling solutions to Fortune 500 companies. You can reach Jim at jcombs@promodel.com or by phone at (864) 240-9257.

Craig Impastato, Great Lakes Regional Manager
Craig is a senior industry consultant with 20 years experience with manufacturing/logistics, business process modeling, CAD applications and discrete event simulation technologies. Craig has represented process improvement software technologies and has supported commercial, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries within the Fortune 500. Prior to working as a sales manager, Craig worked at General Motors in automotive design engineering and at EDS as a CAD applications engineer. Craig recently was with Proforma Corporation, an enterprise modeling solutions company. You can reach Craig at craigi@promodel.com or by phone at (313) 647-9772.

Erik Christ, Mid-Atlantic Regional Manager
For the last four years, Erik has utilized his extensive communications and client relations skill set as a ProModel Business Development Representative. During this time, he has helped hundreds of manufacturing organizations implement decision support solutions built on ProModel technology. You can contact Erik at erikc@promodel.com or by phone at (610)867-1553.