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Hitachi Automotive Products Increases Efficiency With Data Collection

When you hear Hitachi, you think quality, value, continuous innovation and customer satisfaction. That's not just marketing. It's reality.

Hitachi Automotive Products is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi America, which markets and manufactures a broad range of electronics, computer systems, semiconductors and industrial equipment throughout North America.

Based in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Hitachi Automotive manufactures and distributes automotive products to tier one companies. Dating back to the 1930s in Japan, the company produces high quality electronic components, power train equipment, electronic control technologies and motor-based equipment.

At Hitachi Automotive Products, the commitment to quality is delivered through timely and accurate product delivery: complete customer satisfaction.

This commitment demands efficient access to information about production lines and warehouse supply.

As part of an effort to continuously improve efficiency, Hitachi Automotive wanted to improve the flow of data between the shop floor and its ERP - Geac System21. The solution the company was seeking was a data collection system to maximize access to information. The company wanted to enter shop floor transactions on handheld devices using barcode scans.

Hitachi found Viewpoint for System21 from Nutech Systems.

To ensure that Viewpoint was the right solution for its needs, Hitachi Automotive Products visited a System21 implementation at another Nutech Systems customer site. Once they were satisfied, Hitachi's technical group and Nutech's customer service team developed a System Requirements Definition, a detailed needs analysis and report, to outline the process and technical requirements for the implementation.

Viewpoint was added to two of Hitachi Automotive's North American facilities - at the headquarters site in Kentucky, which manufactures OEM products, and at the Los Angeles site in California, where the company handles remanufacturing for after market products.

Over the course of eight weeks, in an accelerated implementation, Nutech worked with Hitachi Automotive's technical team on the critical path.

The final implementation covered the main raw storage areas, machining center and the finished goods area, allowing management to track products through the production and distribution process.