Diageo Enhances Perfect Plant Program With Informance

NORTHBROOK, IL, Apr 29 (MARKET WIRE) --
Informance International, a leader in manufacturing business intelligence
and enterprise manufacturing intelligence solutions, announces that
Diageo, the world's leading premium drink business, now looks to
Informance to drive manufacturing performance in their U.S. plant
facilities in Relay, Maryland and Plainfield, Illinois. The global
spirits, wine and beer company leverages Informance solutions and
advisory services to support their Perfect Plant Program with elements
for the operating system foundation. With Informance, Diageo plants in
Maryland and Illinois have real-time actionable intelligence for
transparency of performance and consistent communication and transparency
of status.

"We consistently strive for best-in-class manufacturing performance,"
comments Ish Ahamed, Vice President Supply, Diageo Plainfield. Informance
enables effective continuous improvement, which is key to manufacturing
flexibility, low variability, and ultimately, outstanding customer value.
"The Informance pilot effort that led to the deployment in Plainfield was
an eye opening experience exposing the extent of minor interruptions on
our production lines."

Diageo uses Informance to monitor and measure manufacturing performance.
Then, armed with highly granular and rich performance metrics, the global
manufacturer benchmarks operations performance to identify improvement
opportunities. With Informance IMPACT, Diageo then develops action plans
based on probability of success. This approach ensures that the
manufacturer focuses on those improvements that deliver the greatest
impact in consideration of investment and resources.

"Diageo initially became interested in Informance after a benchmark
briefing that conveyed best-in-class metrics for the food and beverage
industry," comments John Oskin, Executive Vice President of Informance.
"Food and beverage companies are eager to understand the financial impact
of their improvement options, and our entire focus is delivering the
power to discover, evaluate, and take action on opportunities to improve
manufacturing performance." Informance benchmark studies are unique
because researchers use many months of real-time manufacturing
performance data aggregated using the Informance Enterprise Manufacturing
Intelligence platform. The highly granular and rich real-time nature of
Informance EMI adds a new dimension for external and internal
benchmarking initiatives.

About Informance International

Informance delivers Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) solutions
to help clients accelerate operational performance initiatives, drive
operating strategies and capture actionable insight; measured by
speed-to-value. Using Informance, manufacturing teams can drive corporate
initiatives like Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, and other continuous improvement
methods. Clients quickly unlock hidden capacity, increase productivity
without additional capital investment, reduce inventory and labor costs,
and increase working capital. To learn more, call 1-877-464-6262 or e-mail
info@informance.com. For more information, visit www.informance.com or
contact:

Diane Murray
Marketing Communications Manager
Email Contact
(847) 498-1844

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