Ninatek introduces Nlighten

A NinaTek product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team Oct 16, 2003

Ninatek introduces Nlighten, the first software application to complete the view of the product lifecycle for Design Engineers

Introducing Nlighten from NinaTek, a new web-based analytic application that brings an entirely new perspective to product engineering by directly connecting design engineers to product field performance.

At last manufacturers can empower their engineering teams with powerful product insight, plus enable them to monitor field product performance and analyze the effectiveness and financial impact of product design decisions-- past, present and future! Nlighten enables engineers to reveal hidden design and value-improvement opportunities from in-service product field data, and analyze 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.

Nlighten is unique in that it alerts users on emerging product field issues in virtual real time, while there is still time to prevent an escalation of operational costs and negative market exposure.

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 optimize 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.

Following is a summary of Nlighten's benefits:.

* Speed time to product improvement.

* Drive fact based improvement decisions based on technical and financial analysis.

* Leverage existing data assets for improved decision support.

* Identify and resolve emerging field issues before they become a crisis.

* Optimize engineering resource utilization.

* Fast and cost effective deployment.

* Intuitive and easy to learn interface.

Nlighten delivers immediate value as a 100% web-based application.

Authorized 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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