Gartner, a leading IT research firm, included FORCAM as one of the world's 36 most representative vendors of smart manufacturing technologies. FORCAM's in-memory processing and real-time capabilities allow manufacturers to gain insights from factory data. Customers like Pratt & Whitney and Richards Industries achieved over 20% productivity increases using FORCAM's solutions. The report recognizes FORCAM's role in helping manufacturers digitally transform factories and optimize performance.

1. FORCAM, Inc. ▪ 250 East Fifth Street ▪ Cincinnati, OH 45202 ▪ Phone: +1 (513) 878-2780 80 ▪ info@forcam-usa.com ▪ www.forcam.com
Press Release
June / July 2016
Smart Factory: 36 world-leading IT vendors in
Gartner Market Guide - FORCAM is one of them
• Gartner: FORCAM FORCE™ introduced in-memory data processing and real time
capabilities
• FORCAM CEO: "We are successfully playing in the world league of major IT vendors"
Ravensburg (Germany) / Stamford (USA), June / July 2016. The leading international
research firm for the IT industry, Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT), announced FORCAM as one of the
world's 36 ‘Representative vendors’ for smart manufacturing technologies. The newly released
Gartner ‘Market Guide for Manufacturing Execution System Software’ (MES) assessed the
status of the MES market (Factory Software) and gives recommendations for the selection and
use of factory software solutions.
20 of the analyzed software vendors are located in North America (including ABB and GE
Digital), 14 are from Europe (including Israel) and 2 are from Asia. In Europe, Germany tops the
list with 7 suppliers of Smart Factory technology, including SAP, Siemens and FORCAM.
FORCAM Founder and Chairman Franz Gruber says: "The latest Gartner report on factory
software demonstrates that we are successfully playing in the world league of important Smart
Factory solution providers - against competitors with very big names. My gratitude for this
recognition by Gartner goes to all FORCAM clients, including global brands like Audi, Daimler,
BorgWarner, KUKA, Schaeffler, National Oilwell Varco, Pratt & Whitney, Richards Industries
and Weir Minerals. Our customers appreciate that we provide concrete results - up to 30
percent higher productivity based on Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).”
Gartner: FORCAM FORCE™ introduced Real Time Capabilities
The MES Market Guide states that the worldwide market for Smart Factory technology has
grown to a volume of approximately three billion dollars in 2015. The industry segment is now in
a consolidation phase. The IT research firm advises companies to select only IT vendors that
are knowledgeable about the relevant manufacturing sector and have the capabilities and
analytical tools in place to handle the tsunami of data as part of the Internet of Things.
FORCAM recognizes Gartner’s ‘Market Guide for Manufacturing Execution System Software’
as it explicitly reports the latest release from Germany: "FORCAM FORCE™ features in-
memory data processing and real-time performance through Complex Event Processing (CEP)
as a rule engine, support of mobile applications and cloud-based functionalities."

2. FORCAM, Inc. ▪ 250 East Fifth Street ▪ Cincinnati, OH 45202 ▪ Phone: +1 (513) 878-2780 80 ▪ info@forcam-usa.com ▪ www.forcam.com
FORCAM – an IT Solution for the Manufacturing Industry
Gartner’s ‘Market Guide for Manufacturing Execution System Software’ lists the sectors in
which the respective factory software vendors are particularly active. FORCAM’s industry
sectors include: aerospace and defense, automotive manufacturers, general manufacturing
industry, medical and device; in the process industry sector, there are the pharmaceutical and
biotechnology industries, where the German IT specialist does particularly well.
The Market Guide emphasizes FORCAM's In-memory solution with its individual, multi-tenant
IT architecture as well as numerous interfaces to other systems (CNC / PLC, ERP / PLM, TDM,
CAQ, CMMS). FORCAM FORCE™ enables numerous functionalities such as performance
analysis, energy control, tracking and document control (DNC). The solution encompasses
machine integration with the international interface MTConnect®, including cloud platform as
service (PaaS - Platform as a Service).
Pratt & Whitney: FORCAM Knowhow – First Choice
Numerous testimonials by FORCAM customers and business partners confirm Gartner’s
Market Guide. Chris Fangmann, CTO Global Manufacturing at Fortune 500 company CSC,
states in a blog post that FORCAM FORCE™ is truly unique. "FORCAM allows business
leaders real-time insight into their factory - from anywhere and with any device."
Read more: http://blogs.csc.com/2016/06/02/smart-factories-of-the-future-today/
FORCAM’s technology is, for example, also deployed at the market leader for aircraft engines
Pratt & Whitney (Middletown, CT) as well as at top-listed aerospace supplier GKN Aerospace.
Lean Transformation Manager Kimberley Hagerty at Pratt & Whitney said at FORCAM’s 2nd
Smart Factory World Symposium to Manufacturing Engineering early June in Chicago: “The
only step they have made in finding matching Smart Factory technologies was to enroll in the
FORCAM Academy. The manufacturing process at Pratt & Whitney is organized internationally.
A cross-border and real time visibility of all factory performance is necessary."
Read more: http://www.sme.org/MEMagazine/Article.aspx?id=8589939584
Richards Industries: Productivity increases by more than 20%
The challenge No.1 for all companies worldwide is heterogeneous machine parks, systems
from different manufacturers and ages. To reduce the complexity of the Smart Factory project,
FORCAM advises its customers to launch the digital transformation of the factory in small steps
- with the Smart Factory Starter Kit.
An example: The US valve manufacturer, Richard’s Industries, Transformation manager Bob
Luthy states: "Make sure that everyone in the company can see the benefits of change. Higher
machine availability, higher productivity, lower error rate." Results: Overall Equipment
Effectiveness (OEE) rose by more than 20 percent.
Read more: http://www.mmsonline.com/articles/getting-started-with-machine-monitoring

3. FORCAM, Inc. ▪ 250 East Fifth Street ▪ Cincinnati, OH 45202 ▪ Phone: +1 (513) 878-2780 80 ▪ info@forcam-usa.com ▪ www.forcam.com
Upcoming Events
è Franz Gruber, speaker at the IMTS 2016 –
è IMTS Booth E-4421 featuring partners CSC, Predictronics, ORION Quality
Software, FreeWire CNC, LillyWorks, Makino, and Toyoda Machinery
IMTS (International Manufacturing Technology Show) in Chicago
September 12 -17, 2016 Link: http://industrialtechnology.events/gams/
Co-Event: Industrial Automation North America
Panel: “How Maintenance and Big Data can co-exist”
è KUKA Event Location Host, 13th
Productivity Congress ‘FORCAM FIT’
13th
Productivity Congress ‘FORCAM FIT’ , September 28, 2016 in Augsburg, Germany
“Smart Factory – Meet the Champions“: Top-Manager share their success stories
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About FORCAM – www.forcam.com
FORCAM is a global technology partner to discrete manufacturing companies providing a
unified approach for sustained manufacturing excellence across all operations.
FORCAM’s awarded technology suite FORCAM FORCE(TM) monitors the performance of over
60,000 machines globally and is deployed by best-in-class companies active in Automotive,
Aerospace and Defense, Oil and Gas, and Medical Device discrete manufacturing industries.
Customers achieve productivity increases far over 20% in less than 12 months.
FORCAM’s Advanced Shop Floor Management Technology harmonizes all manufacturing
operations from to the top -- to the shop floor, and across the global supply chain and enterprise
creating the transparent factory environment. FORCAM stands for rapid Return-On-Investment
(ROI), an increase of Return-On-Capital-Employed (ROCE), and a competitive surge in overall
cost savings and reduction of waste. We Deliver Results in Productivity.