PRESS RELEASE ARCHIVE
For Immediate Release – October 2004
NEW AEGIS EUROPEAN SUBSIDIARY RECORDS HEALTHY GROWTH
IN FIRST 6 MONTHS
Cheltenham, UK – Earlier this year Aegis Industrial Software
Corporation, the leader in manufacturing productivity software systems
for global electronics assemblers, announced the formation of a European
subsidiary, Aegis Industrial Software (Europe) Limited which is
headquartered in the UK. Since trading began, Aegis Europe has grown the
existing European customer base by 25% with significant new business
coming from electronics manufacturing companies, including Bosch,
Celestica, Dage, Plexus and Raytheon.
The European operations are headed by Barrie Upton, managing and
operations director, and Peter Clegg, European business development
director. Both directors, with many years experience in the European
electronics design and manufacturing market, have proven track records
in bringing US software and hardware companies to Europe and rapidly
establishing them as market leaders. Heading up customer support is
Christian Teasdel, who brings more than four years’ experience in Aegis
software and extensive knowledge of assembly machines and processes.
Commenting on Aegis’ successful start to working directly in Europe,
Peter Clegg said, “We have adopted both a direct and multi-tiered
indirect business model to grow our existing user base in Europe,
supported by an expanding network of experienced value-added resellers
(VARS) and European-based machine vendor partnerships. We are already
establishing Aegis as the vendor of choice for manufacturing
productivity systems, and are actively looking for additional
representation in several European regions, including Germany, France,
Hungary and Poland.”
“This expansion is part of the Aegis business strategy to extend its
North American leadership into Europe and Asia with strong regional
sales and support operations. Aegis is offering a truly cost effective
modular solution focusing initially on new product introduction. This
includes data validation, process-to-asset mapping, routing,
documentation creation and paperless delivery using web browsers. Aegis
also offers manufacturing execution solutions covering shop floor
engineering, process engineering, limit setting with alarms, real-time
quality collection and analysis, and real time monitoring,” said Jason
Spera, CEO at Aegis.
“These products answer the world-class manufacturing data management
needs of the European market. Manufacturers are no longer willing or
able to hire specialized staff, redesign their processes or spend many
man-months implementing solutions. They want easy to use, scaleable
web-based system solutions to integrate into their current structure
utilizing current assets,” Jason continued.
“In Europe we are seeing a great interest in our NPI solutions.
Customers are always looking for successful ways in which to optimize
all the business and process intelligence that exists in most factories,
in order to launch new products quickly, set up lines correctly,
continuously improve quality and view/access all of this in real-time,”
stated Peter. “Product genealogy and traceability are also becoming
important issues for lead-free manufacturing in Europe.”
For additional information contact:
Shaun Black, Marketing Director
Aegis Industrial Software Corporation
Email: sblack@aiscorp.com
Phone: 714.828.9730