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Letter to Share Owners - Introduction
Charlene Begley President and CEO, GE Fanuc Automation, GE Industrial Systems

For manufacturers, streamlining their incredibly complex processes is where the next great productivity realization lies. That's what we do at GE Fanuc.

 With our advanced Cimplicity® software, an assembly "line" is no longer linear – it's a web of collaboration. Each part of a car, for example, is part of an intricate mesh of global interconnections among suppliers and assembly points. Cimplicity allows you to time all of these interconnections for maximum uptime.

Not only can you see from your office what's happening in your plant, but also what's happening in all of your plants all over the world, and in your suppliers' and customers' operations as well. Suppliers know when we need their parts; customers know when their orders are coming.

Nissan has called Cimplicity "a major contributor" to its Smyrna, Tennessee, plant – which industry observers have declared the most productive car plant in North America. We're directly impacting their bottom line by improving their asset management, variable cost productivity and working capital turnover. This is the best of GE – our product completely digitizes your operation and helps you achieve Six Sigma quality. I love it.

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