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Healthcare services provider agrees to partner with innovative healthcare connectivity vendor to assist in connecting uncooperative healthcare systems and eliminate the reliance on paper processing.
DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 19th, 2007
PMC, a full service global firm providing performance improvement, management consulting, IT and lean services to Healthcare and other industries today announced that HILGRAEVE, a Monroe, MI -based systems integrator providing services nationwide, has agreed to partner with PMC to provide as part of PMC’s suite of services and applications, the HILGRAEVE suite of connectivity products including HYPERSEND PDX and HYPERGATE.
“Hilgraeve will help us stay competitive in the Healthcare service industry marketplace.” said Dr. Onur Ulgen, President of PMC. “The flexibility of the Hilgraeve suite of products as well as their implementation and support services will allow PMC to compete and provide a wide array of services in the competitive healthcare services industry”. Tom Igel, Director of Healthcare Services at PMC, added that “We plan to significantly increase our current client base, and Hilgraeve will help us achieve that goal”. The process improvement and lean services of PMC, when coupled with Hilgraeve’s IT connectivity tools, will provide the best of two worlds for the Healthcare industry, by assisting in the re-alignment of the critical resources required to deliver their current services as well as by improving the accuracy and the timeliness of data."
The HyperSend PDX product solves the uncooperative systems problem in the Healthcare Industry. HyperSend PDX extracts demographic data from physician practice management systems, reformats that data into industry standard HL7 format files, and sends those files securely through the Internet to our customers. HyperSend PDX also delivers results securely through the Internet to Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems in physician offices where they can be automatically imported.
HyperGate solves the uncooperative systems problem in healthcare applications, by allowing customers to easily connect to 100’s of the largest payers in the market for exchange of ANSI standard 835 claims and responses without having to support 100’s of different transports. It is a clearing house in box.
About PMC
PMC (www.pmcorp.com), founded in 1985 in Dearborn, Michigan, is an international process improvement, IT, lean and industrial engineering, quality audit and certification, simulation, packaging, and supply chain optimization services firm with a strong training component providing services to the healthcare and manufacturing industries.
About Hilgraeve
Hilgraeve Inc. (www.hilgraeve.com), a privately held software company based just south of Detroit in Monroe, Michigan, is a long-time leader in meeting the mission-critical communication needs of business. Hilgraeve's data communications software and Internet-based services enable businesses to become faster and more competitive through the use of electronic communications. Hilgraeve provides reliable, powerful and easy-to-use communications solutions, in addition to offering design and implementation services needed to ensure trouble-free operation in the corporate computing environment. Hilgraeve's product philosophy is to create solutions that connect uncooperative systems in ways that securely leverage the value of the data exchanged.
CONTACT: Hilgraeve, Inc. Monroe, MI
Jeff Banet, 313-243-0576
jfbanetl@hilgraeve.com orSales@hilgraeve.com
Source: PMC
PMC. Opens International Offices
October, 2006
PMC, the largest full-service operations engineering and management consulting firm in North America announced the opening of regional offices in Nagpur, India and Gothenburg, Sweden to better serve its global customers. Headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan for over 25 years, PMC expects its presence overseas to strengthen customer relationships and drive new business initiatives.
PMC employs some of the industry’s leading experts in Production Scheduling, Lean Engineering, Simulation, Packaging & Material Handling, Time Studies, Labor Optimization, Theory of Constraints, Layout Design, Supply Chain Management, Business Enterprise Modeling, etc. Having formed many strategic partnerships with leading productivity software companies, PMC offers a favorable selection of software tools (Scheduling software, Simulation software, Supply Chain software, Industrial Engineering software, etc.) at discounted prices and provides comprehensive training courses for many of the productivity improvement software packages on the market.
PMC has additional offices located in Austin, TX; Warren, MI; Los Angeles, CA; Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Istanbul, Turkey and Bangkok, Thailand.
For additional information about PMC and the company's products and services call 313-441-4460 or visit http://www.pmcorp.com.
PMC and Lanner Group Partner to Deliver “Best in Class” Simulation and Optimization Solutions
Dearborn, MI - January 16, 2005 - PMC will sponsor a series of educational Webinars in productivity improvement tools and techniques for Manufacturing and Service industry professionals.
Designed to provide a wide range of information to participants, these one-hour events are free and time-limited to minimize the disruption to your day. PMC combines teleconferencing with web-based presentations to deliver high performance informational sessions. Each industry focused presentation features a discussion, case studies, and a Q&A session. All you need to participate is an Internet connection and a telephone.
For more information, the current Webinar schedule and their topics, visit http://www.pmcorp.com/Events/seminars_webinars.asp. You are invited to participate by advance registration.
Joint Release
Educational Webinars to Gain Insight into Productivity Improvement Strategies
DEARBORN, MI and REDDITCH, UK August 25, 2006 — Working to provide organizations with a uniquely visual and quantitative business improvement methodology, PMC and Lanner announced a strategic alliance, effective August 2006, to deliver the most compelling simulation and optimization software and consulting solutions based on WITNESS, the world’s leading business simulation system, and PMC’s globally recognized “best in class” cutting-edge productivity solutions.
Lanner specializes in process simulation technology and its effective deployment, having developed its software and domain expertise across a wide range of industries and applications.
“The relationship with PMC will provide customers with access to an extended skill set experienced in delivering productivity solutions based upon our technology” said David Jones, CEO, Lanner Group. “PMC provides a unique and significant capability that complements our existing market position. We are excited about where this new partnership can take our simulation based solutions; both to new levels of innovation as well as delivering accretive value to our respective customers”
“PMC's goal is to complement our client’s business know-how with our engineering, manufacturing, business and information systems expertise, providing answers for companies challenged to steer a successful business course. Partnering with Lanner, we have the opportunity to add value by integrating generic process improvement and lean/IE techniques with visual tools so that the clients can virtually see and perform analysis in optimizing their systems,” said Dr. Onur Ulgen, President of PMC. Dr. Ulgen further added that “Visual simulation-based tools enhance new idea generation and involve experienced managers in performing what-if scenario analysis without becoming bogged down in the details of the systems.” PMC’s strategic software, consulting, and training relationship with Lanner Group and WITNESS simulation software will provide broader service to Lanner’s current customers due to the complementary services of PMC in areas of lean systems implementation, traditional Industrial Engineering, and Six Sigma.
To date, Lanner has helped over 1000 international organizations realize billions of dollars in business benefit. Working with Global 1000 customers since 1979, PMC has completed over three thousand complex projects involving advanced industrial engineering, supply chain management, lean systems implementation, finite capacity scheduling, software design, and shop floor control solutions.
About Lanner Group Ltd
Lanner Group specializes in process simulation technology and its effective deployment. The resulting blend of Process Simulation Tools, experience & capability and process understandingenables us to consistently deploy the full power of simulation for our customers and partners worldwide. Lanner has a portfolio of industry and application services and technology offerings including the world-leading WITNESS simulation and optimization software. Lanner is widely acknowledged as the world's pioneering leader in business simulation and optimization. Based in the UK with subsidiaries and partners in Europe, The Americas and the Far East, Lanner has a worldwide customer-base of more than 3500 companies globally and has implemented solutions for over 1000 customer projects. www.lanner.com
About PMC
PMC is the largest productivity improvement services company in North America providing software, consulting, technical staffing/contracting services, and training in all major productivity improvement tools. More information about PMC services can be found at www.pmcorp.com.
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SEPTEMBER 1, 2006
PMC welcomes Mike Ricard, a leading Healthcare Lean System Implementer, as its new Healthcare Senior Director
Michael Ricard, PMC’s newly appointed Healthcare Senior Director, is a recognized leader in Lean Process Improvement for his work at many companies in the healthcare industry. He is one of the country’s foremost experts on the Toyota Production System, also known as Lean Thinking. Mike’s lean experience began in Japan more than 20 years ago, where he began studying Toyota’s production and organizational techniques under his father, Leonard Ricard.
Mike’s healthcare and insurance industry Lean System Implementations started by using General Motors Corporation “PICOS” methodologies to its healthcare suppliers. He has worked with globally recognized institutions such as Mayo Clinic, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, William Beaumont Hospital, University of Michigan Hospital, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Sparrow Hospital, Hurley Hospital, Detroit Medical Center, McLaren Hospital, Karmanos Cancer Center, MetLife, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Blue Cross Blue Shield of New York, Health Alliance Plan and Health Plus.
Mike’s Lean System background also includes extensive services to the industrial and manufacturing sectors of the economy.
PMC’s healthcare and insurance industry consulting service provides Lean System Implementation, six sigma applications, software consulting, forecasting, data mining, call center optimization, scheduling, simulation, quality-assessment auditing, quality certifications and training services. PMC, founded in 1985, is a Dearborn, Mich based productivity-improvement consulting company, with branch offices in Warren, Mich; Austin, Texas; Los Angeles; and Windsor Ontario.
PMC, Three Parklane Boulevard, Suite 1006 West, Dearborn, MI 48126
Phone: 313-441-4460 x 1201 Fax 313-441-6098
Website: www.pmcorp.com Email: moreinfo@pmcorp.com
PMC, www.pmcorp.com, opens new offices in LA, CA, India, Thailand, Jordan and Turkey.
PMC's Material Flow and Indirect Labor Study Reveals Potential Annual Savings of Over 5 Million Dollars Annually for Automotive Manufacturer. Read More...
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2004 Press Releases
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| PMC certifies their first class in MODAPTS. From L to R Ravindra Lote, Frank Helmststter, Rohit Trivedi, and instructor, Dale Perry |
PMC, www.pmcorp.com, was founded in 1985 in Dearborn, Michigan. PMC is an international industrial engineering and I.T. services firm with a strong training component. PMC consultants serve clients in both the manufacturing and service industries through the application of industrial engineering techniques, modeling, simulation software, programming, and operational analysis techniques.
PMC realizes the value of MODAPTS and is incorporating MODAPTS into their simulation and engineering services. PMC is also conducting certification training for its staff as well as offering certification training to clients on a monthly basis. PMC has teamed up with PERRY PRODUCTIVITY GROUP, dalegperry@ameritech.net of Wixom, MI in order to offer this training. This partnership proved itself to be a winning combination for their customers.
2003 Press Releases
Proplanner
Contact: Chris Dewitt/Rohit Trivedi
PMC.
(313) 441-4460 ext. 1150/1122
Proplanner.net and PMC Enter Sales Agreement
Announce 15-city tour to train prospective users
Dearborn, Mich., July 25, 2003 - PMC has signed a master distributor contract with Proplanner.net of Ames, Iowa for distribution, support, and implementation of the Proplanner.net web-based manufacturing process management (MPM) software. The two companies will kick-off the new partnership with a 15-city training seminar tour beginning in August.
Dearborn-based PMC is North America's largest independent simulation services company. Proplanner.net is the world leader in net-centric and subscription-based MPM applications.
MPM is an emerging market space consisting of tools that allow manufacturing companies to create, document, manage and access detailed manufacturing process information. According to a 2002 Frost & Sullivan report, the MPM market is expected to reach $3 billion in eight years with 35% annual growth.
Proplanner.net president and founder Dave Sly said PMC has the right manufacturing industry customers to "kick-start" sales in the Midwest and Texas. "PMC has been around since 1979, and in that time has established itself as a leader in helping companies improve their manufacturing operations. This type of credibility will be a tremendous benefit as we work together to build the manufacturing process management marketplace."
Onur Ulgen, president and founder of PMC, said Proplanner.net is the right tool at the right time. "With the tough economic times facing manufacturers, Proplanner.net offers an easy, integrated tool that is very affordable. They don't need to purchase the software. It's available right over the internet or intranet. The start-up is extremely quick compared with traditional software."
About Proplanner
Proplanner.net integrates many of the disparate tasks performed by process and industrial engineers in manufacturing plants. All the documents, spreadsheets, layout drawings, control plans, ergonomic assessments, costing and line balancing forms used by engineers are easily accessed over the internet, intranet, and/or client-server systems through a Windows Explorer-like interface.
Sly estimates that a manufacturing company with five engineers and a product with $12 million in annual sales can save $335,000 in direct annual costs using Proplanner.net. and up to $12 million on a new product launch. The monthly subscription cost for Proplanner.net is $500. This includes all modules and maintenance.
PMC will host free one-day training seminars on Proplanner.net in 15 cities before the end of the year. Ulgen says the seminars are designed to introduce manufacturers to MPEM and train users on the software. Anyone receiving the training will receive a trial subscription to Proplanner.net.
"The goal is to take someone from newcomer to users in eight hours," said Ulgen. "By the time they leave the seminar they will be able to use the software the next time they launch their web browser."
Anyone interested in attending a seminar should go to www.proplanner.net
ENTERPRISE DYNAMICS IN THE US
February 10, 2003 - Dearborn, MI, USA & Maarssen, The Netherlands
PMC has signed a distributor relationship contract with Incontrol Enterprise Dynamics Corporation of Maarssen, The Netherlands, for North American distribution, support, and implementation of the Enterprise Dynamics Simulation Platform (formerly known as Taylor II/ED).
"With the simulation expertise of PMC we have found a more than capable business partner to sell and support Enterprise Dynamics, execute simulation studies and build branch-specific simulation solutions for our customers in the U.S." says Louis Schijve, CEO of Incontrol Enterprise Dynamics. Dr. Onur Ulgen, President of PMC, adds: "This partnership enables us to access the best products in discrete-event simulation available today."
As part of the partnership, PMC has installed a specialist group for Enterprise Dynamics. This team of simulation specialists is focused on realizing the intended cost reductions and investment evaluations for U.S. customers.
By joining forces with The Netherlands, one of the largest dedicated simulation expert groups has been formed in delivery of discrete-event simulation services in North America and Europe.
About Incontrol Enterprise Dynamics
Incontrol Enterprise Dynamics is a software solution provider and consulting company in logistic simulation and quantitative analysis. With more than 10 years of experience, Incontrol is a preferred source to obtain insight and solve complex problems in the fields of manufacturing, materials handling, automotive, airports, harbors, and rail.
Enterprise Dynamics is sold worldwide and considered one of the leading simulation platforms available today. The possibilities for industry specific solutions and full VR animation are only a small summary of the versatility of Enterprise Dynamics.
Incontrol Enterprise Dynamics is headquartered in Maarssen, The Netherlands with sales offices in Duisburg, Germany and partners in 11 countries.
About PMC
PMC provides cutting-edge productivity solutions to assist customers to become the best in their class. Based in Dearborn, Michigan and in Austin, Texas, PMC is a solution provider for simulation, finite capacity planning and scheduling, and supply chain software applications.
With a simulation staff of 35 specialists and more than 3.000 simulation projects executed since 1985, PMC is a leading simulation company in the U.S.A.
For additional information, contact: Claudia at PMC's Sales team, Tel (313) 441-4460, Ext. 1131.
2002 Press Releases
July 2002
PMC - ASPROVA Alliance Successes
PMC's alliance with ASPROVA Corporation www.asprova.com ) as the Americas Master Distributor and Implementer of the ASPROVA© scheduling software has produced significant successes in the last few months. PMC and its ASPROVA© VARs in the Americas have successfully installed ASPROVA© at Amada Manufacturing, Grupo Polymer, Kyosha America Corporation, Northrop Grumman, Panasonic, Pioneer Speakers, Sony Electronics, and other Fortune 1000 companies. For more information, please contact sales@pmcorp.com.
July 2002
Branch Office in Austin, Texas Now Open
PMC's branch office in Austin, Texas, now open under the direction of Carrie Van Loon. This office focuses mainly on consultations on behalf of corporations in the southern states. Dr. James Burns of Lubbock, Texas also joined PMC as a Senior Consultant to serve customers in the south via this office. To reach this office, email Carrie at PMCSouth@pmcorp.com , or telephone or fax (512) 219-5637.
June 2002
PMC Alliance with The SimFlex Group, Flextronics
PMC has formed an alliance with The SimFlex Group, Flextronics ( http://www.flextronics.com ) in support of the SimFlex™supply chain analysis and simulation software. PMC is now superbly equipped to provide instruction in its use, plus consultation in the improvement of complex, corporate-wide supply chains. Using SimFlex™, companies can make strategic, cost-conscious, and optimized decisions on supply chain design and operation while nimbly adapting to rapid marketplace change. For more information, please contact PMC's SimFlex team.
June 2002
PMC Friday Technical Lunches
PMC has begun a series of "technical lunches" beginning at noon each Friday, broadcasted from our Dearborn, Michigan office. Additional details are available on this web site home page under Events/Technical Lunch Series. Remote participation via conference call telephone is welcome; please call or email Edward Williams (313-441-4460 x1031, Tech-Lunch@pmcorp.com ) to make arrangements.
January 2002
PMC Alliance with SIMUL8 Corporation
PMC is now an approved distributor for the SIMUL8® simulation software from SIMUL8 Corporation www.simul8.com. This easy-to-use yet powerful simulation and animation software is an excellent tool for improvement of manufacturing or service processes. PMC provides classes and consultation in its use. For more information, please contact PMC's SIMUL8 team.
