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News Release from: NinaTek | Subject: Nlighten
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 24 July 2003
Application addresses product lifecycle
economics
Nlighten is a novel software package designed to help manufacturers improve product profit margins, optimise value improvement activities and increase engineering efficiency.
Nlighten is a novel software package designed to help manufacturers improve product profit margins, optimise value improvement activities and increase engineering efficiency Nlighten brings a new perspective to product engineering as the first application created to address product lifecycle economics
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 3 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Nlighten enables engineers to reveal hidden design and value-improvement opportunities from in-service product field data, and analyse the effectiveness and financial impact of their product design decisions - past, present and future.
Additionally, Nlighten puts actual field data at the fingertips of product engineers in rapid time, providing quick and easy access to historical product and parts failure metrics.
As a result, engineers can now access the information they need, when they need it, to make business savvy design decisions.
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Mike Barry, President and CEO of NinaTek said: "We have received enthusiastic market response on Nlighten's ability to help boost manufacturers' profits by helping to reduce product lifecycle costs, such as warranty, while simultaneously improving customer loyalty".
Nlighten is the first application specifically designed to provide decision support capabilities to product engineers, enabling the evaluation of alternative design scenarios and the prediction of their respective lifecycle costs.
Engineers can now understand and optimise lifecycle costs as a design variable, and apply more accurate and consistent ROI predictions for value improvement projects.
"Typically about 30% or more of the design engineers' time is spent looking for the information they need to revise or design new products", said Lou Novoa, former Chief Engineer at Freightliner.
"Usually the information is scattered throughout various systems, and is not easily accessible or in the form that makes it possible for designers to really use it to ensure each new product generation is better and more profitable than prior versions".
Nlighten rises to this challenge by unifying product data from various sources, such as field service, warranty, and manufacturing, into a product analytic data model that helps make engineers much more efficient.
Furthermore, Nlighten transforms complex statistical analysis into easy-to-use and understand metrics that design engineers and decision makers can quickly act upon with full confidence.
Nlighten delivers immediate value as a 100% web-based application.
Authorised users can access Nlighten with any popular web browser Additionally, NinaTek offers a quick and easy no-risk trial program that demonstrates how the application can pay for itself in cost savings opportunities.
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