10.11.2009 FFD, Inc. and CrossroadsRMC, LLC Enter Into Joint Marketing Partnership
Knoxville, TN – Barry Lucas, President and CEO of FFD, Inc., announced today the signing of an agreement with Crossroads RMC, LLC to work together to offer more complete suite of manufacturing operations management (MOM) tools to their customers.
Lucas said, “We are very excited to be working with an MES firm with the history and expertise of Crossroads RMC. Their focus on the front-line MES capabilities such as Paperless Shop Floor Control, Inventory Movement and Visibility and Electronic Schedule Editing combined with the unique capabilities of Sequence to author, manage and deploy integrated manufacturing work instructions is a great fit for our core manufacturing verticals.” Rich Grilli, President of Crossroads RMC went on to say, “Our partnership with FFD will provide our clients with the ability to go paperless on the shop floor with an approach that will yield quick ROI. The combination of our technologies and application expertise is a powerful one.”
FFD, Inc. is a software company developing, marketing and implementing Sequence Software, a unique package for developing manufacturing work instructions for paper and/or electronic publishing to network users. Work instructions are a critical part of the two fastest growing application areas in manufacturing; Product Lifecycle Management and Manufacturing Execution Systems. Sequence addresses the key challenges manufacturing companies face in authoring/ capturing knowledge, managing and revising that information, and disseminating the correct versions of the information to the manufacturing floor. The added capability of integration to ERP, MRP, PLM and MES solutions further provides a collaboration of data and functional departments to work toward ‘design to manufacture’ and ‘manufacture to quality’ methods, as well as supporting Lean, Six Sigma, and ISO program requirements.
Crossroads RMC was created in 2008 by the merger of RMCis Corporation and Crossroads. CrossroadsRMC’s unique advantage is that they offer manufacturers the ability to widen expectations by offering a complete and comprehensive set of products to support the optimization and integration of shop floor and warehouse with industry-leading ERP solutions. Combining that with the highest reputation of manufacturing, distribution and technology consulting, Crossroads emerges as the leading source for MES and Data Collection for leading ERP solutions. With headquarters in Lisle, Illinois and satellite offices in Wisconsin, Crossroads RMC is the leading choice among Infor-based discrete and process manufacturers.
For more information contact FFD at 865.927.3000 x 601 or Crossroads RMC at 630.955.1310.
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