Corporação Industrial do Norte, S.A. (CIN) Joins the List of Companies Using ProductVision® by Advanced Software Designs
CIN has chosen ProductVision to streamline their extensive new product development efforts, starting in Portugal, with future rollout of the product worldwide. CIN will leverage the integration that ASD has developed to link ProductVision and the ASW4, their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System, to greatly reduce the time required for formula development. They have licensed ProductVision® Formula Management, Approval Routing, Full Audit Tracking, Project Management and Data Integration Modules.
José Nogueira, Technical Director at CIN, commented, "We selected ASD because of their extensive and excellent knowledge of the Paint and Coatings industry". He added, "ProductVision offered superior price performance over the competition and had gained widespread approval from the project team during the evaluation."
Keith Britton, ASD's European Business Development Director, said, "I am happy to welcome CIN to a growing list of European clients who are reaping the benefits of using ProductVision to improve their product development capabilities." He added, "CIN evaluated a list of competitive products and quickly realized that ProductVision provided the best solution to meet the needs of a European paint and coating manufacturer."
CIN (www.cin.pt) is the market-leading paint company in the Iberian Peninsula, established in its present form in 1926. The company has five manufacturing sites with its main factory and head office in Maia, near Porto. The group currently has around 1100 employees of which over 90 are in the R&D and Quality departments.
Fields of activity include architectural and decorative paints, industrial finishes for wood, plastic and metal, powder coatings, plus paints for the transport and refinish markets. The Cin group comprises CIN, LacoseSotinco and NITIN in Portugal and Barnices Valentine and Disa (Canarias) in Spain. Furthermore, it has associated manufacturing companies in Angola and Mozambique and licenses Sita in Cabo Verde.
CIN has a major presence in the protective coatings market via CIN CROS brand name, which is active throughout Iberia and additionally manufactures specialist fire retardant coatings.
ASD exemplifies its commitment to world-class integrated product development software solutions through its integrations at various mid- to large-size, leading-edge global and domestic companies. ASD serves the food and beverage, cosmetic, paint and coatings, chemical, and ink vertical markets.
Advanced Software Designs has been serving the batch process manufacturing industries for two decades. Headquartered in St. Louis, MO, ASD offers total product development software solutions.
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