CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2006--Industry-leading companies joined GE Fanuc Automation, Inc, a unit of GE Industrial, at its second annual GE Fanuc Discover 2006 Users Conference, May 31 - June 2, 2006 in Orlando, Florida. Seven customers were honored at the event with the Automation Discovery Awards, symbols of GE's corporate philosophy, "imagination at work."
The conference, with more than 600 attendees, included end users, OEMs and systems integrators, and focused on solutions to help users increase productivity, maximize efficiency and raise quality standards to unprecedented new levels.
Lafarge North America, Centocor, Dell, J.M. Smucker Company, Timken Company and Nissan North America anchored the program emphasizing real-world solution discussions. A broad range of training was available in hands-on workshops with products ranging from controllers to production management software to motion control to machine control and embedded systems. The conference concluded with a lively interactive "Town Meeting" discussion with customers, GE Fanuc executives, product managers and engineers.
"Automation users today face many challenges in running their operations efficiently and profitably," said Maryrose Sylvester, president and CEO of GE Fanuc Automation. "We work with organizations on all aspects of their automation processes through automation technologies that positively affect their businesses. The organizations we honor today typify 'imagination at work,' a core GE philosophy."
Among the GE Fanuc Automation Discovery Award recipients are:
-- City of Oceanside, California - More than 20,000 tags are monitored at the new San Luis Rey Water Treatment facility where high-speed performance enables valuable trending and status reporting. A key requirement here is to stay in compliance with federal, state and local laws, and to help the City of Oceanside water department maintain its high standards of service to its diverse community.
-- Dell Inc. - To reliably automate a new manufacturing system, the company implemented a "build-to-order" system that manages the production process, provides genealogy and traceability management, and facilitates faster decision making. This system is allowing Dell to achieve their goal of manufacturing one product every six seconds.
-- The J.M. Smucker Company - A forward-thinking automation solution replaced existing packages and manual processes with automated logs for increased production and quality. This allowed for faster access to accurate quality and process data plant-wide and achieved a high degree of adaptability to match evolving requirements. In addition, the company was able to leverage system capabilities for environmental compliance.
-- The Procter & Gamble Company - By implementing a complete automation solution, P&G was able to solve production quality and efficiency issues including run-to-run product variation, standardized performance reporting globally, significantly increased productivity as well as new product introduction time-to-market, and decreased work-in-progress expenditures.
-- Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation - Installing a state-of-the-art control system for a state-of-the-art Electric Arc Furnace allowed this company to complete a coordinated global upgrade and modernization, improve capacity and OEE, and achieve flexible production levels to respond to market volatility.
"GE Fanuc is pleased to welcome these great companies to 'The Winner's Circle'," continued Sylvester. "And, we look forward to working with them more in the future."
About GE Fanuc Automation
GE Fanuc Automation, a joint venture between GE and FANUC LTD of Japan, delivers automation hardware and software designed to help users reduce costs, increase efficiency and enhance profitability. With solutions and services catering to virtually every industrial segment, GE Fanuc Automation provides a diverse array of capabilities and products, including controllers, embedded systems, advanced software, motion control, CNCs, operator interfaces, industrial computers, and lasers. Headquartered in Charlottesville, VA, GE Fanuc Automation is a part of GE Industrial and combines the diverse global strengths of the GE family with the local presence customers need to design, develop and maintain their automation investments.
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