Enabling Superior Operations Performance in the Medical Device Enterprise
Live Webcast, August 9, 2007

Join us online to learn more about the systems and processes medical device organizations need to enable real-time visibility into manufacturing exceptions and performance deviations, to drive superior performance across global manufacturing operations, to be compliant with FDA regulations, and to be aligned with corporate objectives.

Learn Why Operational Excellence is Mission Critical to Compliant Manufacturing in the Medical Device Industry

The chasm between the plant floor and the enterprise has daunted manufacturers over the last 20 years, handicapped their production personnel through a lack of real-time visibility, and negatively impacted plant and corporate performance. Despite these challenges, barely 1% of manufacturers have deployed any automated integration between their enterprise and their real-time plant floor systems.

Bridging the Gap Between the Plant and the Enterprise

Join this Webcast to hear Colin Masson from AMR Research discuss the business and strategy challenges driving IT investments in manufacturing operations. Results from a recent global survey by AMR Research reveal the significance, need, and challenges involved in driving a metrics-based performance-management system predicated on bridging the disconnect between the plant and the enterprise in the medical device and equipment industry.

Get an inside look at how life sciences companies are successfully enabling operational excellence to bridge this gap. This Webcast will deliver insights on how medical device companies are deploying real-time visibility into performance deviations throughout the plant and the enterprise to drive superior performance - across people, processes, assets, and plants - aligned with corporate objectives.

This Interactive Event is Designed to Provide Real-World Insights into:

• Key business drivers influencing significant IT investments in medical device manufacturing operations in 2007 and beyond
  
• The hierarchy of metrics from the enterprise and the plant floor that potentially can be leveraged to drive superior performance management by exception
  
• Challenges faced by medical device manufacturers due to the lack of interoperability between their plant-to-enterprise business processes - and their performance implications
  
• The perfect plant for compliant manufacturing and how it is enabled by SAP for Life Sciences to deliver rapid time- to-value and measurable benefits for customers
  
• How industry leaders are integrating its SAP ERP application to its plant floor systems using SAP xMII to enable the perfect plant through higher visibility and responsiveness and to drive superior people, asset, quality, process, and plant performance