L'Oreal USA wins PM100 Award 2010 for continuous improvement program powered by Informance EMI
Global cosmetics leader L'Oreal has won the prestigious Managing Automation PM100 Award 2010 in recognition of its work to deliver major improvements in manufacturing performance.
ORTHBROOK, IL--(Marketwire - May 10, 2010) - L'Oreal USA,
a subsidiary of L'Oreal Paris, one of the world's largest beauty
and cosmetics companies, has won Managing Automation's Progressive
Manufacturing 100 Award. L'Oreal has been recognized for its
success in empowering teams to solve problems and effect change,
delivering significant improvement in key measures of manufacturing
performance.
As the technology provider to L'Oreal's continuous
improvement initiative, Informance International congratulates
L'Oreal for their achievement. Informance, a leader in
manufacturing business and enterprise manufacturing
intelligence solutions, designed and supplied management
information systems for the program. "Informance is proud to
be the technology partner to L'Oreal and to have helped with this
highly visible initiative. We congratulate them not just for
earning the prestigious PM100 Award, but for the transformational
impact their manufacturing teams have had on operational
excellence," said John Oskin, Founder and Executive Vice President,
Informance [now a division of Solarsoft Business Systems].
In 2008, L'Oreal selected Informance as its technology partner
in an initiative to improve performance and align plant tactics
with corporate strategies. The Informance team delivered
software to collect and analyze production data, and provided
advice on the effective use of performance metrics to sustain
L'Oreal's program for operational excellence. Plant and
executive management now use the Informance solution to monitor the
financial impact of performance improvements and to discover,
evaluate and take action on opportunities in
their manufacturing operations.
Judged by an independent panel of publication management,
industry analysts, industry executives and past winning companies,
the PM100 recognizes projects that have achieved distinction in at
least one of eight core disciplines critical to business
success. L'Oreal and the other PM100 winners received their
awards at the Progressive Manufacturing Awards Gala during the
Annual Progressive Manufacturing Summit 2010, in Palm Beach,
Florida.
For more information about the PM100 Awards, visit www.managingautomation.com/awards.