Accelerate Digital Manufacturing. Improve Productivity and Profits with Machine Data.

Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/22/2022 -- Come Join VIMANA on September 12-17 at IMTS 2022 and experience "Digital Manufacturing. Implemented." VIMANA will demonstrate newly released, next-generation Smart Manufacturing Analytics Software providing manufacturing operations real-time insight to improve profit, productivity, and manufacturing flexibility.

VIMANA's Smart Manufacturing Analytics software connects and collects machine data from everything in minutes, monitors real-time KPIs, analyzes and predicts manufacturing and machine performance. VIMANA goes beyond OEE and Machine Monitoring to advanced analytics for machine, line, and workforce optimization. VIMANA's Predictive Maintenance software provides intelligence for PM scheduling and predicts component and machine failure to reduce downtime and costs.

The VIMANA Difference. Our Smart Manufacturing Analytics Software is:
- Designed for industrial product manufacturers.
- Easy to implement, use, and scale.
- Next-generation IIoT technology, edge to cloud, machine learning, and AI-driven advanced analytics.
- Out-of-the-box real-time manufacturing data collection, analysis, and predictive alerts.
- Ready to use highly customizable dashboards and reports for immediate insight into performance improvements.
- Supported by manufacturing engineers. Closes your IT/OT resource gap. Delivers real business outcomes.

"With the increasing number of connected machines and sensors, there is a growing demand for machine data collection and predictive analytics solutions to help manufacturers lean processes and adapt to market changes. VIMANA has been a long-time partner of AMT, launching Technology Firsts at IMTS 2014 as co-authors of the MTConnect standard and a pioneer of machine monitoring software. Today, building on our heritage, we bring high payback use case-driven advanced analytics solutions for manufacturing that deliver tangible results quickly. Join us while we demonstrate "Digital Manufacturing Implemented" at IMTS 2022", said CEO Rick Moran.

Start today! Don't wait until the show. See if it's the right time to adopt or expand Manufacturing and Predictive Maintenance Analytics solutions in your operation. Request VIMANA's Free Production Assessment. Get a sneak preview of YOUR manufacturing data in action with data-driven insight into your machine utilization, OEE, downtime with root causes, and workforce performance and productivity.

Learn more about VIMANA's Predictive Maintenance for Manufacturing with real case studies describing how manufacturers use maintenance analytics to improve equipment availability, mean time to repair, and technician productivity while dramatically reducing costs.

About VIMANA
VIMANA is a global provider of Industrial Analytics Software and Services that powers data-driven: Manufacturing Operations. Equipment Maintenance. Connected Products-as-a Service. With IoT analytics, AI, and Industrial IoT Solutions for smart manufacturing, maintenance, and reliability. Helping industrial businesses navigate change, transform operations, and grow revenues.

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Powering Industrial IoT Solutions from the Edge to the Cloud

Berkley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 05/10/2021 -- VIMANA, a leading global provider of industrial analytics software and services, has been selected by Dialog Semiconductor, a $1.376 billion semiconductor company, headquartered near London, as their AI and Data Analytics platform partner. This partnership provides industrial manufacturers a turnkey solution with the latest edge computing technology and cloud-based analytics for decision support to transform operations, manage change, and grow revenues.

VIMANA's data analytics platform technology transforms diverse and complex industrial data into trusted, actionable insights building a data foundation for advanced analytics. Analytics applications provide out-of-the-box capabilities and AI driven solutions for Machine Monitoring and OEE, Predictive Maintenance, Asset Performance Management, Line Performance Management, Workforce Productivity Tools, and Enterprise-Wide On Demand Manufacturing. These solutions help industrial manufacturers increase manufacturing efficiency, optimize asset and line performance, improve workforce productivity, and enable new IoT Connected Product revenue streams.

Dialog's SmartServer IoT edge server and open software platform, is a turnkey edge computing solution that orchestrates operational data with an IoT stack, freely available integration tools, and web services APIs for automation, controls and analytics applications. Dialog's SmartServer™ IoT Partner Program brings together an ecosystem to accelerate secure, scalable integration of IoT edge devices and networks with cloud platforms and operational technologies (OT).

Dialog's SVP of Corporate Development and GM of Industrial IoT Business Group, Mark Tyndall said, "VIMANA provides the cutting-edge analytics technology and proven solutions that deliver rapid time to value. Customers today are looking for AI driven analytics from manufacturing intelligence to predictive maintenance that is simple to deploy, use, and scale while delivering ROI in weeks – VIMANA does just that. Dialog SmartServer IoT provides the infrastructure. SmartServer IoT offers an open and turnkey solution to securely orchestrate data between new or legacy operational networks bringing operational data to the edge. The insights derived from such a comprehensive ecosystem enable better management decision-making for increased productivity, reduced costs, and faster revenue growth."

Dr. Athulan Vijayaraghavan, VIMANA's COO and Co-Founder said, "Our partnership provides manufacturers an end-to-end solution from data acquisition and transformation at the edge to AI driven solutions integrated with enterprise systems for real business outcomes. Together we ensure IoT compute and analytics is optimized for performance, flexibility, and cost. Operational data is acquired and analyzed from a comprehensive ecosystem, informs decision making and drives business results. Combining VIMANA's analytics platform with Dialog's edge IoT stack provides a game changing solution for our customers."

About VIMANA
VIMANA is a global provider of advanced industrial analytics software, services, and IoT solutions for Smart Manufacturing, Asset Maintenance & Reliability and IoT connect products that enable industrial businesses to transform their operations and grow revenues.

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Helping Midsize Manufacturers Improve Shop Floor Performance

Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/22/2021 -- VIMANA's Connect suite has been selected by Data Inventions, Inc. to power Alora, their machine intelligence platform, for its JobBOSS software users. JobBOSS, from ECI Software Solutions, is an ERP system that serves over 3000 manufacturers focused on metal fabrication, made-to-order, mixed-mode and highly customizable job-based manufacturing. The Data Inventions and VIMANA partnership leverage the two companies' respective strengths. VIMANA will provide machine connectivity, real-time IoT data collection, and expertise in an efficient and effective approach to connecting heterogeneous devices. Data Inventions Inc. brings the Alora platform integrating data from machines and manufacturing systems to improve shop floor performance.

VIMANA is Data Inventions' exclusive partner providing IoT connectivity and data collection. VIMANA's Connect suite provides secure connectivity to legacy and new industrial assets, bringing the ability to connect to limitless data sources factory-wide to include sensors, PLCs, CNC, robotics, 3D printers, automation, and material handling equipment, fabricating equipment, and measurement systems.

Data Inventions' Alora platform integrates industrial machine data with JobBOSS' Shop Management solutions, MES, and maintenance systems, and enables machine operators and managers to connect to actionable information using simple, intuitive interfaces. This provides manufacturers visibility into production performance and real-time insights that will inform decisions, reduce downtime, and improve productivity throughout the operation.

"We are excited to partner with Data Inventions, augmenting their machine intelligence platform, Alora, with shop floor data to inform decisions and deliver productivity improvements," stated Athulan Vijayaraghavan, COO, CTO, and Co-Founder of VIMANA.

"We selected VIMANA because they are recognized as the leading experts in shop floor connectivity and industrial data standards. This solution will ensure high-quality data for more advanced analytics. More than anything, this partnership will help us achieve our goal of making manufacturers more competitive," stated Duane Clement, CEO, Data Inventions.

About Data Inventions
Data Inventions provides a cloud-based manufacturing intelligence platform that serves mid-market businesses that need an integrated, easy-to-implement, and easy-to-use solution. Manufacturing performance has been stifled by disconnected systems and piles of bad data that leave most companies flying blind.

About VIMANA
VIMANA is a global provider of advanced industrial analytics software and services that enable industrial businesses to lean processes for operational excellence and transform business models to grow revenues and improve customer experience.

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Berkeley, IL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/01/2020 -- VIMANA, a global provider of Industrial IoT analytics software and services, announced today the appointment of Dr. Athulan Vijayaraghavan to Chief Operating Officer.

Effective immediately, Athulan will lead the go-to-market teams, field services, and oversee the day-to-day operations of the company. He will be central to operationalizing VIMANA's strategy and transforming the customer-facing organization to enable a strong foundation for growth and dominance in the Industrial IoT analytics market.

Athulan is uniquely qualified as an experienced, trusted leader with a sharp focus on operational excellence. He brings to this position innovation, agile practices, and demonstrated success in performance management. He focuses on engaging actively with strategic partners and customers to ensure an outside-in and agile approach to all aspects of the business.

Athulan will also continue in his role as CTO, championing technology strategy, and leading the product development, engineering, and data science teams. As a technology pioneer with expertise in manufacturing, data standards, and analytics, his leadership has driven the development of breakthrough data transformation and IoT solutions that are mission-critical to manufacturers.

Rick Moran, President and CEO of VIMANA said, "this change brings deeper alignment across technology strategy and delivery, and will drive agility, scalability, and customer responsiveness in everything we do. I have tremendous confidence in Athulan's ability to continue to expand our product line, broaden our customer and partner base, and lead the company to the next phase."

Read Athulan's biography at www.govimana.com/leadership and visit him on visit him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/athulan/.

About VIMANA
VIMANA is a global provider of analytics for industrial transformation, advancing how companies manufacture, sell and service their products. Helping industrial businesses increase profitable revenue growth and productivity while realizing their vision for smart industry.

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Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/10/2020 -- VIMANA, the leading global provider of industrial analytics solutions and services, today announced that IoT Breakthrough selected VIMANA as the winner of the 2020 "Smart Manufacturing Solution of the Year" award. The winners were chosen from 3700 nominations and recognize the top companies, technologies, and products that drive innovation and exemplify the best technology solutions in the global Internet of Things (IoT) market.

VIMANA's out-of-the-box, highly customizable, next-generation analytics platform and application for Smart Manufacturing, innovates how manufacturing and enterprise data is collected, enriched, analyzed, visualized, and shared across the manufacturing operation and supply chain. This solution brings real-time visibility and control to the OEM and supplier manufacturing network with capabilities to predict, manage, and control asset / line performance and health, workforce productivity, and simulate and optimize processes.

Dr. Athulan Vijayaraghavan, CTO and Co-Founder of VIMANA said, "being chosen for the 2020 IoT Breakthrough award is confirmation that VIMANA is the leading smart manufacturing IoT solution for customers and partners. Manufacturing enterprises and supply chains continue to look for cost savings and improved customer responsiveness. Manufacturers must use data for cross-functional operational intelligence to improve financial performance, efficiency, and manufacturing agility. VIMANA combines technology innovation with industrial domain expertise to provide breakthrough smart manufacturing software solutions that enable a cost-effective, effortless path to industrial transformation with immediate and long-term business value."

To learn more about IoT Breakthrough, visit www.IoTBreakthrough.com.

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About VIMANA
VIMANA is a global provider of advanced analytics software and services for industrial transformation, advancing how companies manufacture, sell, and service their products. Helping industrial businesses increase profitable revenue growth and productivity while realizing their vision for smart industry. Transforming industrial production and manufacturing to mass customization, flexible just-in-time manufacturing, with lean processes for operational excellence and competitive advantage. Creating new business models by expanding opportunities for connected industrial and commercial product functionality, far greater reliability for improved customer service, much higher product utilization driving incremental revenue growth from data and services.

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VIMANA accelerates data collection and preparation of Analytics-Ready IoT Data that Speaks the Truth

Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/18/2019 -- VIMANA, the leading industrial analytics platform provider, today announced the new VIMANA Data Transformation offering. A unique solution that prepares and adds context to raw manufacturing and enterprise data for consumption by next-generation analytics and connected product solutions.

Industrial organizations are challenged with efficiently collecting and preparing data for analysis. The increasing volume and complexity of IoT data is putting pressure on organizations to rethink traditional data preparation methods and look to new solutions that transform raw data into knowledge. Market research says data management and governance are impacting the success of IoT initiatives and projects, slowing time to insight and time to value.

VIMANA's IoT data transformation addresses today's market need to access and prepare trusted data from complex data sources for analysis across a spectrum of stakeholders and business use cases. Our software transforms data automatically and makes it useful for analysis. VIMANA Data transformation provides:

- Data discovery, finding the right data from the right internal and external data sources for business insight.

- Consistent data structure with a common set of terms and relationships based on domain-driven ontologies.

- Data cleansing by filtering out unnecessary noise and enriching data to improve quality and completeness.

- Data enrichment using a rules engine and domain-driven ML and AI algorithms for multi-dimensional event stream aggregation.

- Analytics-ready data published to storage solutions, data lakes, 3rd party systems, or BI tools and downstream analytics users.

VIMANA provides industrial organizations data preparation solutions that turbocharge the time to insight and provides the consumer data they can trust and activate faster. VIMANA enables data science resources to focus on modeling and data interpretation vs. pre-processing.

"Good data management and governance enables better data science. The market is demanding technology for identifying, accessing, and preparing data for analysis. VIMANA addresses this opportunity with innovative software and methods aimed at automating and processing data preparation leveraging our data science professionals with combined OT and data science skills. This offering enables our customers to realize the value of Industrial IoT and deliver better business outcomes", stated Dr. Athulan Vijayaraghavan, CTO, VIMANA.

About VIMANA
VIMANA is a global provider of advanced industrial analytics software and services that transform how companies manufacture, sell, and service their products. Helping industrial businesses increase profitable revenue growth and productivity while realizing their vision for smart industry. Transforming industrial production and manufacturing to mass customization, flexible just-in-time manufacturing, with lean processes for operational excellence and competitive advantage. Creating new business models by expanding opportunities for connected product functionality, far greater reliability for improved customer service, much higher product utilization driving incremental revenue growth from data and services. VIMANA's next-generation IIoT platform provides the capability to enrich, analyze, visualize, share, and capitalize on the vast amounts of data generated by devices, processes, systems, and connected products. These proven solutions are deployed globally by large enterprises and industry-leading partners that embrace smart industry initiatives for operational excellence, business model transformation, and competitive advantage.

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Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/27/2019 -- VIMANA, the leading provider of industrial analytics software solutions and services, announced today a significant advancement in Industrial IoT device management that makes it easy to securely onboard, monitor, and remotely manage IIoT devices.

VIMANA Connect's Site Manager software centralizes and automates the oversight of industrial devices for easy deployment and scalability with:

- automated device connectivity and provisioning for rapid onboarding

- device configuration

- device and edge monitoring providing details on devices, connection status, and troubleshooting devices for corrective measure

- security for verification of a user's identity and authentication

- remote distribution and management of software upgrades

Recent market research shows an urgent need for Industrial IoT device management solutions that on-board and monitor the expanding scale and scope of IoT devices, particularly those in mission-critical processes. i-SCOOP reported that Gartner predicts the number of connected devices will increase by 21% in 2020, with the Manufacturing and Natural Resource segment representing .4B IoT endpoints 2019 and forecasting .49B in use by 2020. According to the Grand View Research estimate, the overall market for IoT device management solutions will grow to $5.1B by 2025.

Dr. Athulan Vijayaraghavan, Co-founder and CTO, VIMANA, noted: "We help our customers reduce the time, resources and difficulty to securely connect, monitor, and manage their connected devices. VIMANA's Site Manager provides enterprises with the ability to get started with a small number of devices quickly and scale effortlessly and is fundamental to the successful deployment and ongoing management of IIoT and smart manufacturing projects."

About VIMANA
VIMANA is a global provider of advanced industrial analytics software and services that transform how companies manufacture, sell, and service their products. Helping industrial businesses increase profitable revenue growth and productivity while realizing their vision for smart industry. Transforming industrial production and manufacturing to mass customization, flexible just-in-time manufacturing, with lean processes for operational excellence and competitive advantage. Creating new business models by expanding opportunities for connected product functionality, far greater reliability for improved customer service, much higher product utilization driving incremental revenue growth from data and services.

Visit www.goVIMANA.com.

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Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/09/2019 -- VIMANA, a global provider of industrial analytics software and services, announced today that it has been recognized as a Sample Vendor in the Hype Cycle for Managing Operational Technology, 2019 in the "Industrial Operational Intelligence" category, which was given a benefit rating of "high". This is the second consecutive year that VIMANA has been recognized as a Sample Vendor in the report.

Gartner states, "companies will need to assess their adoption of the various technologies, tools, methodologies and services, which led to the four categories of IT and OT transformation benefits: reducing operating costs, limiting risks, increasing agility and speed, leveraging data and information for contextualized, timely and accurate decisions across the value chain/ecosystem." VIMANA addresses this market need with solutions for data transformation, advanced analytics, and systems integration that is easy to implement, adopt and enables real business outcomes.

According to the report; "A large portion of established vendors are either launching their next-generation platforms or integrating different acquired or repackaged technologies. They must compete with the ever- increasing amount of smaller, industry-specific and/or purpose-built providers. Each group is focused on automating data and information flows, streaming data from multiple sources, creating data models, and providing tools to accelerate self-service and add context to production data."

Rick Moran, President and CEO of VIMANA, said, "from our perspective, being named in this Hype Cycle report is confirmation that VIMANA is well-positioned and recognized to be one of the companies providing industry-specific, purpose-built next generation platform for operational intelligence. Our offering provides context-based decision support enabling cross functional, multilevel stakeholders access to data for faster, better decisions based on a broader set of data and information."

The Gartner Hype Cycle referenced in this press release is the Hype Cycle for Managing Operational Technology, 2019 (Gartner subscription required). Gartner Hype Cycle for Managing Operational Technology, 2019, Kristian Steenstrup, Kenneth Brant, Simon Jacobson, 31 July 2019

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About VIMANA
VIMANA is a global provider of analytics for industrial transformation, advancing how companies manufacture, sell and service their products. Helping industrial businesses increase profitable revenue growth and productivity while realizing their vision for smart industry. Transforming industrial production and manufacturing to mass customization, flexible just-in-time manufacturing, with lean processes for operational excellence and competitive advantage. Creating new business models by expanding opportunities for connected product functionality, far greater reliability for improved customer service, much higher product utilization driving incremental revenue growth from data and services.

To learn more about how VIMANA's solutions are helping manufacturing organizations, visit https://www.goVIMANA.com.

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Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/03/2019 -- VIMANA, a global provider of industrial analytics software and services, announced today that it has been recognized as a Sample Vendor in the "Hype Cycle for Life Science Commercial Operations, 2019" report in the "Industrial Operational Intelligence" category, which was given a benefit rating of high.

Gartner states, "the 2019 version of this Hype Cycle focuses on technologies affecting sales, marketing and supplying products and services in the life science industry (pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and life-science-related service firms)."

According to the report; "Adding context to production data is no trivial exercise. Doing so however has impacts beyond the factory. It can be foundational for a closed-loop capability that enables stakeholders at several levels to have access to the kinds of analytics they would not otherwise have. This creates situational awareness and enables faster and better decisions based on a deeper set of data and information."

Dr. Athulan Vijayaraghavan, CTO, VIMANA said, "from our perspective, being named in this Hype Cycle report is confirmation that VIMANA is recognized to be one of the companies providing technology for contextualizing data for decisions based on a broader set of information. Addressing the challenge, VIMANA provides industrial organizations data collection and preparation solutions that provide the consumer contextualized data they can trust and activate faster."

The Gartner Hype Cycle referenced in this press release is the Hype Cycle for Life Sciences Commercial Operations, 2019 (Gartner subscription required).

Gartner Hype Cycle for Life Science Commercial Operations, 2019, Michael Shanler, Animesh Gandhi, 3 August 2019

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About VIMANA
VIMANA is a global provider of analytics for industrial transformation, advancing how companies manufacture, sell and service their products. Helping industrial businesses increase profitable revenue growth and productivity while realizing their vision for smart industry. Transforming industrial production and manufacturing to mass customization, flexible just-in-time manufacturing, with lean processes for operational excellence and competitive advantage. Creating new business models by expanding opportunities for connected product functionality, far greater reliability for improved customer service, much higher product utilization driving incremental revenue growth from data and services.

To learn more about how VIMANA's solutions are helping manufacturing organizations, visit https://www.goVIMANA.com.

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Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/23/2019 -- VIMANA, a global provider of industrial analytics software and services, announced today that it has been cited as a Sample Vendor in the Hype Cycle for Innovation in Manufacturing Industries, 2019 report in the "Industrial Operational Intelligence" category, which was given a benefit rating of high.

According to the report; "In manufacturing operations, OI subsumes and expands upon the aggregate, visualize, analyze, contextualize and propagate capabilities of its precursor in EMI applications (which have reached the plateau). OI (Operational Intelligence) is now portrayed as the platform for visibility into production performance and context-based decision support. It allows manufacturers to achieve flexibility, cost, and/or efficiency goals by leveraging IT and OT data from multiple production sources to mine, model, manage and simulate operations data over an extended hierarchy of time scales and business priorities."

Rick Moran, President and CEO of VIMANA, said, "from our perspective, being named in this Hype Cycle report is confirmation that VIMANA is well-positioned and recognized to be one of the companies providing lead-edge technology for accelerating digitization. Our offerings are targeted at solving problems for manufacturers, building a data foundation for rapid time to insight, and enabling use cases that deliver real business outcomes."

The Gartner Hype Cycle referenced in this press release is: Hype Cycle for Innovation in Manufacturing Hype Cycle for Innovation in Manufacturing Industries, 2019, by Marc Halpern, Michelle Duerst, Simon Jacobson (29 July 2019).

About VIMANA
VIMANA is a global provider of analytics for industrial transformation, advancing how companies manufacture, sell and service their products. Helping industrial businesses increase profitable revenue growth and productivity while realizing their vision for smart industry. Transforming industrial production and manufacturing to mass customization, flexible just-in-time manufacturing, with lean processes for operational excellence and competitive advantage. Creating new business models by expanding opportunities for connected product functionality, far greater reliability for improved customer service, much higher product utilization driving incremental revenue growth from data and services.

To learn more about how VIMANA's solutions are helping manufacturing organizations, visit https://www.goVIMANA.com.

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ARC Advisory Group has invited William Sobel, of VIMANA, a global provider of advanced industrial analytics software and services, to be a speaker at the ARC Advisory Groups’ Annual Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida on February 4-7, 2019, “Driving Digital Transformation in Industry and Cities”.

Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/31/2019 -- The session titled "Cloud Platforms for Operational Analytics", is on Wednesday, February 6, at 2PM, and addresses how IIoT platforms transform industrial plants' operational performance and enables product innovation that enhances customer experience. William Sobel will be speaking with Vijay Anand, Sandvik Coromant, a strategic partner of VIMANA's and Joe Sanguinetti, General Mills. Forum participants are encouraged attend and learn more about cloud-based analytics platforms and their role in driving digital transformation.

"I am excited to participate with leading industrial organizations and share strategic insights on the critical elements to digitalization success. Start your journey by identifying the business challenges and opportunities to be addressed by digitalization and then select the IIoT platform that ensures data collection and management is optimized for consumption by industrial AI and other applications to improve your targeted processes, stakeholders, and business outcomes", stated Will Sobel.

William Sobel, Chief Strategy Officer, and Co-Founder of VIMANA, co-authored the MTConnect standard and OPC UA companion specification, the widely adopted open standards for industrial connectivity and interoperability, implemented by equipment suppliers and embraced by manufacturing users to ensure plug and play data exchange between devices and analytics software. William Sobel's thought leadership and industry project engagements are advancing manufacturing and contributing to leading technical industry organizations (NIST, DMDII, IIC, MTConnect Institute). With this deep understanding of devices, data and standards, Will helps leading manufacturers industrial businesses design and implement a scalable data architecture and data models for the creation of an efficient connected enterprise.

About VIMANA
VIMANA is a global provider of advanced industrial analytics software and services that transform how companies manufacture, sell and service their products. Helping industrial businesses increase profitable revenue growth and productivity while realizing their vision for smart industry. Transforming industrial production and manufacturing to mass customization, flexible just-in-time manufacturing, with lean processes for operational excellence and competitive advantage. Creating new business models by expanding opportunities for connected product functionality, far greater reliability for improved customer service, much higher product utilization driving incremental revenue growth from data and services. VIMANA's next generation IIoT platform gives industrial businesses the technology they need to enrich and aggregate, analyze, visualize, share and capitalize on the vast amounts of data generated by devices, processes, systems and connected products. These proven solutions are deployed globally by large enterprises and industry leading partners that embrace smart industry initiatives for operational excellence, business model transformation, and competitive advantage.

http://www.goVIMANA.com

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Susy Mark
Director of Marketing
VIMANA
susy@goVIMANA.com

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Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/12/2018 -- VIMANA and Microsoft are working together to leverage the two companies' respective strengths: VIMANA's analytics and Microsoft's cloud IoT capabilities for customers using Microsoft Azure and looking for Smart Manufacturing solutions.

Microsoft's Azure provides a software platform used by manufacturers across the globe who need scalable, reliable, performant, enterprise-ready, and secure IIoT solutions. VIMANA Vision, a manufacturing analytics platform, brings together proven capabilities in device connectivity and data transformation to provide predictive and prescriptive insights from shop floor data, along with the ability to integrate data and insights into customer's own applications. VIMANA Vision comes with extensive integration options and can even be extended with custom services and algorithms to address proprietary use-cases. VIMANA Vision includes out-of-the-box applications including Dashboards, Operator Panels, Ticketing, Alerts, and more to provide value from day one and achieve very fast ROI.

VIMANA Vision is the only IIoT platform that supports a wide variety of deployment options and our collaboration with Microsoft is positioned to enable customers to leverage the power of Azure and VIMANA's analytics platform for operational excellence.

"We are excited to be working with Microsoft, combining technologies that yield a strategic, well differentiated IIoT solution. This means that customers using Azure can easily implement manufacturing analytics into their environment with speed and fewer resources. The future of manufacturing is dependent on leveraging strategic partners and is ecosystem driven," stated Rick Moran, President and CEO of VIMANA.

"Collaborating with VIMANA will enable Microsoft to provide our customers leading-edge manufacturing analytics for real-time visibility and insights into production performance to gain operational excellence. Customers are looking for robust data analytics to leverage their existing Azure platform," stated Diego Tamburini, Microsoft's Principal Industry Lead for Manufacturing for Azure Industry Experiences.

About VIMANA
VIMANA's proven, best-of-breed analytics platform for operational excellence is fundamental to transforming manufacturing operations for customers and partners across the globe. VIMANA helps manufacturers run their operation enabling better planning, problem solving, and execution so that assets are optimized, work is simplified, and a data-driven culture is adopted.

VIMANA provides the enabling technology for smart manufacturing realization. VIMANA's products, based on innovation and standards leadership, are built around VIMANA's Data Transformation – shop floor data is transformed into real-time analytics and to predictive and prescriptive insights, helping manufacturers achieve operational excellence. VIMANA's technology adds value to existing manufacturing software investments by providing deep and broad integration with third party applications, including CAM, ERP, MES, and EAM. VIMANA's technology is the data foundation that enables organizations to achieve their advanced manufacturing solutions and initiatives.

About Microsoft
Microsoft is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

For more information please contact:
Isabel Florence
Senior Marketing Manager
VIMANA
isabel.florence@goVIMANA.com

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Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/10/2018 -- VIMANA has been selected by Sandvik Coromant as the manufacturing analytics platform for their newly announced CoroPlus® MachiningInsights offering. The partnership leverages the two companies' respective strengths, VIMANA's advanced analytics and Sandvik Coromant manufacturing knowledge and digital machining solutions.

"After Sandvik Coromant's comprehensive vendor evaluation process, we are honored to have been selected as the best-of-breed manufacturing analytics software for their new CoroPlus® MachiningInsights solution. VIMANA's leading technology and proven track record will enable Sandvik Coromant customers to realize operational value and the future of manufacturing today," stated Rick Moran, President and CEO of VIMANA.

"Collaborating with VIMANA allows Sandvik Coromant to expand our offerings to customers, enabling them to analyze equipment utilization and act to optimize production processes. They will now be able to gain real-time transparency and monitoring of machine tool and cutting tool performance, while improving productivity and saving on production costs," stated Vijay Anand V R – Head of Digital Machining, Sandvik Coromant.

More information on Sandvik Coromant and CoroPlus® can be found here.

About VIMANA
VIMANA's proven, best-of-breed analytics platform for operational excellence is fundamental to transforming manufacturing operations for customers and partners across the globe.  VIMANA helps manufacturers run their operation enabling better planning, problem solving, and execution so that assets are optimized, work is simplified, and a data-driven culture is adopted.

VIMANA provides the enabling technology for smart manufacturing realization. VIMANA's products, based on innovation and standards leadership, are built around VIMANA's Data Transformation – shop floor data is transformed into real-time analytics and to predictive and prescriptive insights, helping manufacturers achieve operational excellence. VIMANA's technology adds value to existing manufacturing software investments by providing deep and broad integration with third party applications, including CAM, ERP, MES, and EAM. VIMANA's technology is the data foundation that enables organizations to achieve their advanced manufacturing solutions and initiatives.

About Sandvik Coromant
Part of global industrial engineering group Sandvik, Sandvik Coromant is at the forefront of manufacturing tools, machining solutions and knowledge that drive industry standards and innovations demanded by the metalworking industry now and into the next industrial era. Educational support, extensive R&D investment and strong customer partnerships ensure the development of machining technologies that change, lead and drive the future of manufacturing. Sandvik Coromant owns over 3100 patents worldwide, employs over 7,900 staff, and is represented in 150 countries.

Visit www.sandvik.coromant.com and www.goVIMANA.com.

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Isabel Florence
Senior Marketing Manager
VIMANA
isabel.florence@goVIMANA.com

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Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/07/2018 -- VIMANA announced their participation in IMTS 2018 at Chicago's McCormick Place, September 10-15, 2018. VIMANA is speaking the Language of Smart Manufacturing, demonstrating the newly released, best-of-breed manufacturing platform for operational excellence. VIMANA will be collaborating with innovation forums and standards organizations, as well as with strategic industry partners.

VIMANA is located in the East Building on Level 3, in Booth #133020. Engage with our experts in discrete manufacturing, data science, analytics, architecture and standards. As co-authors of MTConnect, we help the industry enable the connected ecosystem. See our proven technology, selected by global customers, partners and industry analysts. Learn more about global customer deployments that are realizing quantifiable performance improvements. Our product offerings 'connect to everything' and include out-of-the-box production monitoring that helps manufacturers improve planning, problem solving, and execution to elevate performance for competitive advantage. Ask about VIMANA Vision, our IIoT platform that brings together proven capabilities in device connectivity and data transformation to provide predictive and prescriptive insights from shop floor data, along with the ability to integrate data and insights into your own applications. VIMANA Vision comes with extensive integration options and can even be extended with custom services and algorithms to address proprietary use-cases. VIMANA Vision is the only IIoT platform that supports a wide variety of deployment options from on-premise, to private cloud, to public cloud and comes packaged with automated provisioning and deployment tools for seamless and scalable adoption.

VIMANA will be at the center of technology innovation with demonstrations in the Emerging Technology Center in the North Building Level 3, Booth #236700. VIMANA will be demonstrating the ability to manufacture a part where the process, the tasks, and the verification have all been automated. Integrating machine tools, CMMs, robots, and analytics in a practical, low cost, model. VIMANA's manufacturing analytics platform will be collecting and standardizing data from all these shop floor devices and bring real-time visualizations, monitoring and predictive insights to this advanced manufacturing solution.

Learn more here: https://www.imts.com/show/etc-dt.html.

Find us at the OPC Foundation Booth: East Building, Level 2, Booth #121850. The OPC Foundation will be demonstrating OPC/UA and MTConnect integration using a variety of machines including a robot. VIMANA is providing the IIoT platform for the connected ecosystem, enabling standards-based integrations between manufacturing equipment, applications, and people.

We will also be collaborating with select strategic partners where VIMANA is enabling their advanced manufacturing solutions. Please visit the Autodesk Inc., at Booth #133222 in the East Building.

Rick Moran, CEO and President shares, "We are excited to be an integral part of IMTS 2018. Eager to lead innovation forums, collaborate with our partners, and demonstrate solutions that are helping our customers realize their smart manufacturing vision. We are also thrilled to be spearheading thought leading conference sessions on "Transform Traditional Manufacturing to Manufacturing as a Service" hosted by William Sobel and Athulan Vijayaraghavan and "Digital Transformation: Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Data and Diversity", with panelists representing industry experts and leading manufacturers. We are keen to engage with attendees and make this another great year at IMTS 2018."

About VIMANA
VIMANA's proven, best-of-breed analytics platform for operational excellence is fundamental to transforming manufacturing operations for customers and partners across the globe. VIMANA helps manufacturers run their operation enabling better planning, problem solving, and execution so that assets are optimized, work is simplified, and a data-driven culture is adopted.

VIMANA provides the enabling technology for smart manufacturing realization. VIMANA's products, based on innovation and standards leadership, are built around VIMANA's Data Transformation – shop floor data is transformed into real-time analytics and to predictive and prescriptive insights, helping manufacturers achieve operational excellence. VIMANA's technology adds value to existing manufacturing software investments by providing deep and broad integration with third party applications, including CAM, ERP, MES, and EAM. VIMANA's technology is the data foundation that enables organizations to achieve their advanced manufacturing solutions and initiatives.

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Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/04/2018 -- VIMANA, the leading manufacturing analytics platform for operational excellence, announced that it has been named a Cool Vendor by Gartner, Inc., the world's leading research and advisory company, in the recent 'Cool Vendors in Digitalization Through Industrie 4.0.' 2018 report.  We believe that this is a highly-valued position that recognizes companies that are enabling the digital transformation in manufacturing.

The report states that, "Industrie 4.0 provides manufacturers with new ways to generate value by implementing distributed, orchestrated technology throughout their factories. CIOs within manufacturing companies can utilize products and ideas from the Cool Vendors offering IoT platforms, analytics and digital twin solutions." The report further states that, "I4.0 using IIoT and other emerging technologies has transformed from manufacturing site excellence to solution-driven manufacturing across organizations, regions and even industries." Additionally, "A basic requirement for becoming an I4.0 provider is a clear focus on manufacturing processes. Based on this requirement, an I4.0 provider could follow one or more of the strategic thrusts." One of three strategic thrusts mentioned in the report is "Optimization of operational efficiency of production lines leveraging mainly internal IoT solutions and emerging technologies around automation, machine learning/ artificial intelligence (AI), simulation, additive manufacturing, agility, and flexibility toward personalized production ("lot size equals one")."

Rick Moran, President and CEO of VIMANA, said, "From our perspective, this recognition from Gartner is further confirmation that VIMANA's best of breed manufacturing analytics software is well positioned to help manufacturers realize their vision for Industrie 4.0. We believe that Gartner reports, like Cool Vendor, can assist CIOs and manufacturing leaders in filtering out hype and target providers with leading technology and a proven track record with customers and partners. To us, it's an honor to be included in this year's report and to be recognized as one of the companies providing enabling technology for advanced manufacturing paradigms."

A complimentary copy of the full report can be requested at https://govimana.com/vimana-named-cool-vendor-gartner/

The Gartner report referenced in this press release is: 'Cool Vendors in Digitalization through Industrie 4.0' by Alexander Hoeppe, Saniye Burcu Alaybeyi, Milly Xiang, Barika L Pace (4 May, 2018).

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About VIMANA
VIMANA's proven, best-of-breed analytics platform for operational excellence is fundamental to transforming manufacturing operations for customers and partners across the globe. VIMANA helps manufacturers run their operation enabling better planning, problem solving, and execution so that assets are optimized, work is simplified, and a data-driven culture is adopted.

VIMANA provides the enabling technology for smart manufacturing realization. VIMANA's products, based on innovation and standards leadership, are built around VIMANA's Data Transformation – shop floor data is transformed into real-time analytics and to predictive and prescriptive insights, helping manufacturers achieve operational excellence. VIMANA's technology adds value to existing manufacturing software investments by providing deep and broad integration with third party applications, including CAM, ERP, MES, and EAM. VIMANA's technology is the data foundation that enables organizations to achieve their advanced manufacturing solutions and initiatives.

http://www.goVIMANA.com

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WIBD will hold its inaugural manufacturing industry event at IMTS 2018

Chicago, IL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/17/2018 -- Chicago's Women in Big Data (WIBD) will hold its inaugural event at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2018 titled "Digital Transformation: Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Data and Diversity". The event is open to conference attendees (men and women) and will be held at McCormick Place, in the South Building on Thursday Sept, 13th, in room S401 at 2pm.

Women make up 47.5% of the workforce, yet in manufacturing women only make up 29% of the industry, according to the US Census Bureau 2016 data - US manufacturing has a large gender and diversity disparity, and progress has been made, but is slow.

While manufacturing is facing a seemingly perpetual skills shortage, more and more women are entering the industry and moving into leadership positions while influencing the industry as a whole.

"This event will be a great opportunity to gain practical knowledge of how organizations are using data and advanced manufacturing solutions to transform manufacturing operations and gain competitive advantage. We are excited to bring this event to IMTS so attendees can learn from women who are thought leaders and innovators in the industry", stated Susy Mark, Director of Marketing at VIMANA.

Join these influencers as they discuss the hurdles it took to get to where they are, the successes they've encountered once they got there, and how diversity and data will be the key drivers for the next era of successful businesses. Regardless of company size, this session will benefit those on the shop floor to the enterprise so they can learn tips and tricks in using manufacturing data to make better business decisions and how it can drive competitive advantage.

The events format will feature a panel, and peer-to-peer discussions along with networking time. The panel will represent small as well as large OEM manufacturers, academic digital transformation leaders, and leading software/solution providers of smart manufacturing.

The panel session will be moderated by Susy Mark, Director of Marketing for VIMANA.

The panel includes:

Nina Anderson, Data Scientist, Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT)

Jane Bailey, Vice President of Product Marketing for Digital, GE Digital

Kim Cato, IT Director, Whirlpool Corporation

Ester Codina, Managing Director, Sandvik Coromant

Noel Greis, Adjunct Professor of Operations, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill | Director, Center for Digital Enterprise & Innovation, UNC Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise | President, Kinefac Corporation

Stephanie Hendrixson, Writer & Editor, Gardner Business Media (Additive Manufacturing Magazine)

Elisabeth Smith, President & CEO, Acutec Precision Machining

The event is made possible by our sponsors: Women in Big Data, VIMANA, Centrally Human, AMT/IMTS, GE Digital, Modern Machine Shop, Acutec Precision Machining, Sandvik Coromant, Whirlpool Corporation, University of North Carolina, & Kinefac Corporation

A thank you to VIMANA, GE Renewable Energy Digital, and Centrally Human for planning and executing the event.

For more information or to register for this FREE event, visit: https://www.imts.com/education/DigitalTransformationConference.html.

Please contact Isabel Florence, isabel.florence@goVIMANA.com, Sr. Marketing Manager for VIMANA for more information about this event.

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Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/29/2018 -- VIMANA has been selected by Autodesk as the analytics platform that is the enabling technology for their newly announced Fusion Production Software. The partnership leverages the two companies' respective strengths, VIMANA's analytics and Autodesk's engineering planning and design into one integrated solution for customers. Autodesk's new Fusion Production software combines machine monitoring, production scheduling, and job tracking using cloud computing for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for Smart Manufacturing.

Factory production managers can harness the data gathered through production processes and make it visible in real-time across the extended supply chain. Designers can view downstream processes to improve design for manufacturability. Autodesk's Fusion Production solution connects people, data, and machines providing manufacturing and operations teams real-time visibility and instant access to production data in a single tool to improve productivity and enable agile response to demand.

"We are excited to be working with Autodesk, combining technologies that yield a strategic, well differentiated IIoT solution for contract manufacturers. The future of manufacturing is dependent on leveraging strategic partners and is ecosystem driven. Autodesk's new Fusion Production software does both, digitizing the workflow from design to manufacturing and providing data driven insight to improve operational performance and create competitive advantage for their customers", stated Rick Moran, President and CEO of VIMANA.

"Collaborating with VIMANA will enable Autodesk to provide our customers leading-edge manufacturing analytics for real-time visibility and insights into production performance to gain operational excellence. Customers are looking for robust data analytics and a unified workflow from CAM through production to the finished product", stated Swen Niebann, Business Line Manager – Production at Autodesk.

More information on Autodesk's Fusion Production can be found here.

About VIMANA
VIMANA's software and services provide operational transparency to plant and enterprise-wide performance so manufacturers can uncover ways to improve efficiency, quality, cycle time, cost reduction, and responsiveness to customers.  VIMANA's technology fuels Industry 4.0, IIoT and Smart Manufacturing initiatives. With VIMANA's technology, The Language of Smart Manufacturing, our customers can understand their machines, draw brilliant conclusions, make informed decisions, improve manufacturing operations, and elevate performance.

VIMANA offers the leading cloud-based and on premise manufacturing analytics platform for manufacturing intelligence. VIMANA's software solves the challenges many manufacturers face in their digital journey: connecting all devices, providing data flow in a consistent way, enriching and integrating data, revealing the true state of the manufacturing process, and offering analytics, visualization, communication, and collaboration solutions that inspire adoption from operators and senior leaders.

http://www.goVIMANA.com

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VIMANA and R.F. CELADA Partner to Expand Industry 4.0 solutions.

Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 05/02/2018 -- A VIMANA and CELADA partnership enables CELADA to resell VIMANA's advanced manufacturing analytics software, providing their customers a turnkey, Industry 4.0 solution.  The combination of machining technology and advanced analytics CELADA now offers, helps manufacturers improve productivity and performance of their manufacturing assets.  VIMANA's data driven insight affords manufacturers the ability to optimize machine capacity, improve machine reliability, increase workforce productivity, and improve manufacturing processes.

Europe's Platform, Industrie 4.0 program promotes digitization of industrial manufacturing via financial assistance for companies purchasing Smart Machinery.  CELADA embraces the VIMANA software as an easy-to-implement manufacturing analytics platform that is ideal for all industrial manufacturers.  CELADA is a leader in the sale and service of machines tools, they offer VIMANA's analytics platform with machine technology for a robust and complete Industrie 4.0 solution. 

"When we came across William Sobel, CSO and Founder of VIMANA, and author of the MTConnect standard, we knew we had found the leading solution. Who better to work on connected machines?  We had already benefitted from using the MTConnect standard over all the brands of machine tools we are distributing. VIMANA transforms the data collected and provides an accurate understanding of the machine tool performance powering visualizations of factory floor assets. Our customers can use data to gain insights to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), more effectively schedule planned downtime, improve quality, and optimize machine maintenance," stated Paolo Capelli, Product Manager, R.F. CELADA. 

Easy to Use:  With the Age of Design upon us, a simple user-interface design is a differentiating factor.  Most Italian manufacturers are running paper-based systems, they relish to leap forward into the advanced complexities and rewards of a smart manufacturing solution that is so simple-to-use. 
  
Industry Expertise:  VIMANA leverages the knowledge of standards, discrete manufacturing technology, and data science to bring analytics solutions that drive immediate operational value to customers.

Rapid Deployment and Time to Value:  With its remote installation capabilities VIMANA's IIoT analytics platform is easy to install from anywhere in the world. Users quickly gain a better understanding of their operations and quickly see value in using VIMANA.

Rick Moran President and CEO of VIMANA said, "We are excited to be working with CELADA, a leading distributor of machine tools, to broaden our reach in Europe to small and medium size manufacturing companies, together we can bring value to manufactures and ignite their Industrie 4.0 initiatives."

About VIMANA
VIMANA's software and services provide operational transparency to plant and enterprise-wide performance so manufacturers can uncover ways to improve efficiency, quality, cycle time, cost reduction, and responsiveness to customers.  VIMANA's technology fuels Industry 4.0, IIoT and Smart Manufacturing initiatives. With VIMANA's technology, The Language of Smart Manufacturing, our customers can understand their machines, draw brilliant conclusions, make informed decisions, improve manufacturing operations, and elevate performance.

VIMANA offers the leading cloud-based and on premise manufacturing analytics platform for manufacturing intelligence. VIMANA's software solves the challenges many manufacturers face in their digital journey: connecting all devices, providing data flow in a consistent way, enriching and integrating data, revealing the true state of the manufacturing process, and offering analytics, visualization, communication, and collaboration solutions that inspire adoption from operators and senior leaders.

http://www.goVIMANA.com

About R.F. CELADA
CELADA is an Italian-based Group which sells machine tools and automation solutions providing technical assistance in the EMEA area.

It boasts the representation of some of the best manufacturers in the world to offer to its customers a wide and diversified offer that embraces all the areas of mechanics: turning, milling, EDM, grinding, robotic systems and additive manufacturing.

With 80 years of history, 7 branch offices (2 in France, 3 in the Balcan Area, 1 in Suisse and 1 in Dubai) and more than 25.000 installed machines, CELADA is an international reference point in the field of machine tools.

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Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/13/2018 -- VIMANA, The Language of Smart Manufacturing, launches new functionalities to be included as part of VIMANA Elevate - Enterprise Edition Software.  Currently, VIMANA's analytics software leverages pre-built templates and standardized KPIs providing customers with a turn-key, easy, and fast way to implement real-time performance dashboards and historical reporting for deep insights and problem solving.  Beginning today, VIMANA is augmenting its existing solutions, and launching a new feature set providing the user control over configuring their own data parameters and visualizations to meet the needs of their organization. 

VIMANA's new Configurable Dashboards enable users to build their own dashboards using pre-made templates where they can view their most important KPIs and visualizations.  This user defined, self-service data preparation gives users the control to look at the data the way they want to see it, allowing rapid insight for smarter action.  They are customizable by role and relevant KPIs and parameters for each device, line, cell, process, and plant.  Users can build an unlimited number of dashboards that are customized to their needs.  VIMANA will help them see, understand, and communicate the data quickly. Users will be able to eliminate or reduce the need for post processing data, saving them time and manual manipulation, to view information in user defined formats. 

VIMANA is also launching the new Configurable Operator Panel, which will enable users to configure relevant data classifications and metrics that align to operators and devices.  An operator can 'add' deeper insight into why their machine is not producing and augment the classification for deeper data insight and interpretation. Configuring data relevant to each operator will drive better insight into problem identification and performance. 

A large maintenance and repair organization using an early feature release shared, "VIMANA's new configurable operator panel is increasing our machine operator's engagement due to their customization of the feedback for downtime classifications, capturing digital records of machine events, and having transparency to real-time performance.  We are also beginning to customize dashboards by persona starting with maintenance so that users can see only the data that is relevant to their role which is increasing the speed and ease of understanding the data."

"Our VIMANA development team focuses on front-end agility and back-end stability.  What that means to our customers it that we will continually release software enhancements to meet customer demands and lead the market in discrete advanced manufacturing analytics functionality.  Configurability is something our existing users have asked for and we are very excited to be able to take their feedback and incorporate it into our products," stated Dr. Athulan Vijayaraghavan, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at VIMANA.

About VIMANA
VIMANA's software and services provide operational transparency to plant and enterprise-wide performance so manufacturers can uncover ways to improve efficiency, quality, cycle time, cost reduction, and responsiveness to customers.  VIMANA's technology fuels Industry 4.0, IIoT and Smart Manufacturing initiatives. With VIMANA's technology, The Language of Smart Manufacturing, our customers can understand their machines, draw brilliant conclusions, make informed decisions, improve manufacturing operations, and elevate performance.

VIMANA offers the leading cloud-based and on premise manufacturing analytics platform for manufacturing intelligence. VIMANA's software solves the challenges many manufacturers face in their digital journey: connecting all devices, providing data flow in a consistent way, enriching and integrating data, revealing the true state of the manufacturing process, and offering analytics, visualization, communication, and collaboration solutions that inspire adoption from operators and senior leaders.

http://www.goVIMANA.com

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Sobel's talk will discuss how the digital transformation journey is enabling manufacturers to make better decisions resulting in optimized assets, labor, and processes to meet customer demands at the lowest cost.

Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/15/2018 -- VIMANA, The Language of Smart Manufacturing, is proud to announce William Sobel's participation in the Smart Manufacturing Experience. William Sobel, VIMANA's CSO and Founder, is the author of the MTConnect Standard and continues to participate in revolutionizing the collection and analysis of data that is driving the new era of manufacturing intelligence and analytics.

The Smart Manufacturing Experience is the first of its kind event produced by the AMT (The Association for Manufacturing Technology) and SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers). Participants will be immersed in a world of interactive learning, hands-on technology demonstrations, and even virtual reality - according to the event website. The event will be held at the Boston Convention Center, in Boston, MA, April 30th - May 2nd, 2018.

The event will also feature live presentations, including William Sobel's presentation titled, "Transforming to On-Demand Distributed Manufacturing". Sobel is scheduled to speak on Tuesday, May 1st, 2018 at 10:55 am in room 155A in the Key to Digital Manufacturing track. His will present on manufacturings' digital transformation journey from the beginning stages of connecting assets to the ultimate vision of On-Demand Distributed Manufacturing, an agile customer centric manufacturing operation. He will define each step of the journey, describing what needs to be implemented, and the value manufacturer's get at each transformative step. He will also discuss the foundational role that analytics plays as the enabling technology for the entire ecosystem. He will share real life examples of customers that have started the journey.

"Customers demand guaranteed on-time delivery, quality parts, consistently low pricing, and fast lead times. The digital transformation journey to On-Demand Distributed Manufacturing, reaps significant value to manufacturers at each step of the process from gaining real-time visibility and insight into the operation of a plant to the entire manufacturing network - I am honored to have been chosen as a presenter for this inaugural event, so that I can help companies plan for the digital transformation that is happening now," stated William Sobel, CSO and Founder of VIMANA.

About VIMANA
VIMANA's software and services provide operational transparency to plant and enterprise-wide performance so manufacturers can uncover ways to improve efficiency, quality, cycle time, cost reduction, and responsiveness to customers. VIMANA's technology fuels Industry 4.0, IIoT and Smart Manufacturing initiatives. With VIMANA's technology, The Language of Smart Manufacturing, our customers can understand their machines, draw brilliant conclusions, make informed decisions, improve manufacturing operations, and elevate performance.

VIMANA offers the leading cloud-based and on-premise manufacturing analytics platform for manufacturing intelligence. VIMANA's software solves the challenges many manufacturers face in their digital journey: connecting all devices, providing data flow in a consistent way, enriching and integrating data, revealing the true state of the manufacturing process, and offering analytics, visualization, communication, and collaboration solutions that inspire adoption from operators and senior leaders.

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Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/02/2017 -- Sandvik Coromant hosted a "Digitalization on Machining" panel of leading digital manufacturing industry experts on November 1st, 2017 at the Center for Manufacturing Innovation in Greenville, SC.  William Sobel of VIMANA was one of the panelists during the Facebook Live event.  Other participants included representatives from GE Power, Cisco, Sandvik, Okuma, Microsoft, Mastercam, Rockwell Automation, MakeTime, Praemo, and the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing.

The panel went into detail on what it means for manufacturers to go digital.  They reviewed the difficulties of starting from nothing and offered simple solutions and valuable tips on how to begin.  

There were 3 key takeaways from the panel:

1. Digitization, the digital factory is an imperative

- It's here now, and GROWING exponentially

- Within 5 years, the digital factory will be ubiquitous

- Early adopters will stay in business and gain a competitive advantage

2. Why go digital?

- Improve profit: grow revenue and reduce operating costs

- Achieve an average of a 3% boost in incremental revenue on each machine---this alone justifies the technology investment

- Return in Investment is quick

- ROI can be achieved within 6 weeks: just by understanding device utilization

- The investment is reasonable

- The cost is NOT prohibitive, just get started

- Think big, start small, and expand rapidly

3. How to get started on the digital journey

- Some solutions are turnkey and can be implemented today and leveraged as technology evolves.  Some software providers enable:

- Connect and capture data from disparate devices: CNC, manual machines, additive

- Start with three data elements and see improved operational performance

- Analyze and visualize the data for insight

- Have experts help interpret the data and guide improvement actions

Start now, don't get left behind.

The full video replay of the panel is available on the Sandvik Facebook page.

About VIMANA 
VIMANA's software and services provide operational transparency to plant and enterprise-wide performance so manufacturers can uncover ways to improve efficiency, quality, cycle time, cost reduction, and responsiveness to customers. VIMANA's technology fuels Industry 4.0, IIoT and Smart Manufacturing initiatives. With VIMANA's technology, The Language of Smart Manufacturing, our customers can understand their machines, draw brilliant conclusions, make informed decisions, improve manufacturing operations, and elevate performance.

VIMANA offers the leading cloud-based and on-premise manufacturing analytics platform for manufacturing intelligence. VIMANA's software solves the challenges many manufacturers face in their digital journey: connecting all devices, providing data flow in a consistent way, enriching and integrating data, revealing the true state of the manufacturing process, and offering analytics, visualization, communication, and collaboration solutions that inspire adoption from operators and senior leaders.

http://www.goVIMANA.com

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Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/18/2017 -- VIMANA and Autodesk are collaborating to provide a solution that will demonstrate the combination of VIMANA enriched data and analytics with planning and engineering data to optimize manufacturing processes for Operational Excellence. The Autodesk booth at EMO in Hall 25, Stand A14, will demonstrate both company's joint capabilities in Smart Manufacturing and Industrial IoT.

This technology preview leverages VIMANA's leading manufacturing analytics platform that connects shop floor assets and analyzes operational data with Autodesk's production management solution, providing a unified production solution to plan, track, and analyze production in a single platform.

"We are excited to be working with Autodesk to combine our technologies to create a best-of-breed product. Together, we will accelerate our mutual client's digital manufacturing transformation and help them realize improved business performance," stated Rick Moran, President and CEO of VIMANA.

"Collaborating with VIMANA will enable Autodesk to provide our customers leading-edge manufacturing analytics for real-time visibility and insights into production performance to gain operational excellence. Customers are looking for robust data analytics and a unified workflow from CAM through production to the finished product," stated Swen Niebann, Business Line Manager – Production at Autodesk.

About VIMANA
VIMANA's software and services provide operational transparency to plant and enterprise-wide performance so manufacturers can uncover ways to improve efficiency, quality, cycle time, cost reduction, and responsiveness to customers. VIMANA's technology fuels Industry 4.0, IIoT and Smart Manufacturing initiatives. With VIMANA's technology, The Language of Smart Manufacturing, our customers can understand their machines, draw brilliant conclusions, make informed decisions, improve manufacturing operations, and elevate performance.

VIMANA offers the leading cloud-based and on-premise manufacturing analytics platform for manufacturing intelligence. VIMANA's software solves the challenges many manufacturers face in their digital journey: connecting all devices, providing data flow in a consistent way, enriching and integrating data, revealing the true state of the manufacturing process, and offering analytics, visualization, communication, and collaboration solutions that inspire adoption from operators and senior leaders.

www.goVIMANA.com

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Visitors will be able to learn about the possibilities of connecting their GF Machining Solutions machines to VIMANA’s software.

Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/13/2017 -- VIMANA is teaming up with GF Machining Solutions to bring Industry 4.0 technologies to EMO 2017.  This year's EMO will take place September 18 – 23, 2017 in Hannover, Germany; VIMANA's software will be featured in GF Machining Solutions' stand in Hall 27, Stand B24.

Join VIMANA and GF Machining Solutions to see and learn more about connecting MTConnect-enabled GF Machining Solutions machines and capturing real-time data—which adds transparency to your shop floor's operational performance—as well as deep analytics for root cause analysis to optimize processes.  Experience how VIMANA speaks the Language of Smart Manufacturing, giving users the power to hear and understand machines, allowing them to draw brilliant conclusions, make informed decisions, improve manufacturing operations and elevate the performance of their business.

"We are excited to be showcasing VIMANA's technology for manufacturing intelligence along with GF Machining Solutions precision equipment at EMO.  Connecting GF's machinery with VIMANA's software provides insight that enables measurable improvement in machine reliability, productivity, and quality, all while reducing costs", stated Rick Moran, President & CEO of VIMANA.

"GF Machining Solutions is developing technologies for the factory of the future. We are fully committed to open communication standards. With easy "plug & work" connectivity, demonstrated on the VIMANA showcase, our leading manufacturing solutions boost the productivity of our customers", stated Andreas Rauch, Head of Digital Transformation of GF Machining Solutions.

VIMANA offers the leading cloud-based and on-premise manufacturing analytics platform for operational intelligence.  Manufacturers use VIMANA's big data analytics for connecting assets, monitoring, analyzing, predicting, and optimizing processes. VIMANA has the proven technology that leads both industry and customers in the Smart Manufacturing journey. With agile and continuous software innovation based on customer requirements, industry trends and market vision, VIMANA is future-ready, always guiding customers to the next level of digital transformation and performance.

About VIMANA
VIMANA's software and services provide operational transparency for manufacturing site and enterprise-wide performance so manufacturers can uncover ways to improve efficiency, quality, cycle time, cost reduction, and responsiveness to customers.  VIMANA's technology fuels Industry 4.0, IIoT, and Smart Manufacturing initiatives.  

VIMANA's software solves the challenges many manufacturers face in their digital journey: connecting all devices, providing data flow in a consistent way, enriching and integrating data, revealing the true state of the manufacturing process, and offering analytics, visualization, communication and collaboration solutions that are easily adopted by operators and senior leaders.

http://www.goVIMANA.com

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Topic: The Manufacturing Industry is evolving into Manufacturing as a Service, are manufacturers ready?

Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/11/2017 -- VIMANA, pk/a System Insights announced that company co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, William Sobel, will speak at SME's Digital Transformation Seminar on September 13th in Los Angeles, CA. The event will run alongside of Westec. Sobel's talk, titled 'The Impact of MaaS on the Agile Supply Chain' will begin at 2:55pm.

Is the Manufacturing industry evolving into "Manufacturing as a Service", similar to the transportation industry? Are customers requiring suppliers of goods and services to maximize the value relationships among quality, service, and price? Are manufacturers starting to plan their architecture and enabling technologies to support agile on-demand manufacturing?

Sobel will discuss the future vision of Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS), the shared use a of a networked manufacturing infrastructure. MaaS will provide access to distributed manufacturing resources to enable a highly automated and flexible production and fulfillment network while reducing the cost of the manufacturing infrastructure. To stay competitive, manufacturers need to understand these new business models and the impact of technology from design, to the shop floor, and throughout the supply chain.

Sobel will share his view of the path to agile manufacturing along with considerations for architecture and technologies that are required to enable the ecosystem of services that will characterize the capabilities and capacity of manufacturing assets. He will also share the value at each stage of the journey.

"MaaS is on the horizon, some manufacturers have already begun to embrace it, others are just starting to see the initial stages. The best way to move your manufacturing facility forward is to jump-in early, rather than trying to play catch-up," stated William Sobel, Co-Founder and CSO of VIMANA. He continued, "my talk will focus on what shops and plants need to do go get ready for MaaS and how they can jump-in and stay ahead of their competition".

Sobel recently gave a similar talk at Modern Machine Shop's inaugural Top Shops Conference in Indianapolis, IN on September 6th, 2017. The message was well received and a number of attendees noted they have started seeing the beginning of MaaS being implemented in manufacturing.

About William Sobel
As an industry thought leader on business value and systems architecture for MaaS, William Sobel brings over 25 years of experience advancing state-of-the-art software architecture. In 2005, prior to co-founding System Insights (VIMANA), Mr. Sobel was a visiting lecturer at UC Berkeley working at the RadLAB teaching agile web development and researching cloud application scalability. During his employment at the university, he architected and authored the MTConnect standard for AMT (the Association for Manufacturing Technology) to address the lack of semantic industrial inter-process communication in manufacturing. As the principal author and architect of the MTConnect standard, Mr. Sobel has led the industry towards many advances in industrial semantic data collection and analytics. Through his leadership of industry and standards organizations, he is currently leading working groups that are developing the foundation for the next generation of manufacturing services and leading industry efforts to create composable federated IIoT systems for manufacturing.

About VIMANA
VIMANA's software and services provide operational transparency to plant and enterprise-wide performance so manufacturers can uncover ways to improve efficiency, quality, cycle time, cost reduction, and responsiveness to customers. VIMANA's technology fuels Industry 4.0, IIoT and Smart Manufacturing initiatives. With VIMANA's technology, The Language of Smart Manufacturing, our customers can understand their machines, draw brilliant conclusions, make informed decisions, improve manufacturing operations, and elevate performance.

VIMANA offers the leading cloud-based and on-premise predictive analytics platform for manufacturing intelligence. VIMANA's software solves the challenges many manufacturers face in their digital journey: connecting all devices, providing data flow in a consistent way, enriching and integrating data, revealing the true state of the manufacturing process, and offering analytics, visualization, communication, and collaboration solutions that inspire adoption from operators and senior leaders.

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The new capabilities will add incremental insight into data and streamline problem solving.

Berkeley, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/16/2017 -- VIMANA is enabling operators to share insights, communicate, and collaborate with their teams by introducing new Operator Panel and Tickets solutions. The new Operator Panel and Tickets solutions are included as part of VIMANA Elevate - Enterprise Edition software. The products had a roll-out to select customers for testing earlier this year, and are being released to all users officially today.

As technology evolves, more and more manufacturing facilities are discovering the benefits of ticketing and team-based notifications to satisfy their internal plant needs. The new Tickets solution will enable integrated shop floor communications from machine operators on downtimes, parts, tools, and issues. The machine operator will see many advantages of the ticketing systems capabilities as it will enable ease of communication with other team members. The operator will no longer have to call around, fill out paper forms, or try to find someone in the plant by walking around. They will simply be able to log an issue or request within the ticketing system, and the appropriate team member will receive it and be able to respond or deal with the issue or request quickly. This, in turn, will increase both operator and machine productivity and efficiency and overall plant capacity since incidents will be resolved faster.

"By providing a centralized messaging and communications area, operators will be able to quickly act on alerts, alarms, and faults to proactively act on potential issues," stated Athulan Vijayaraghavan, co-founder and CTO of VIMANA. He added "we deployed this to a small group of customers during our soft-launch and have seen rapid adoption in their plants. One customer specifically, with a large manufacturing operation, had logged over 150 tickets in their first two weeks. Feedback from them has been very positive on the new Tickets feature and they have already seen a decrease in unplanned and planned downtime since the operators and machines needs are being met more quickly. They have also been able to move away from paper logs making the company greener."

The Tickets feature is not only for logging machine issues. It can also be used to proactively address an issue and request a remedy, or to request more material or consumables to keep the machine producing with limited downtime.

The new Operator Panel offers an entire suite of new capabilities – machine classifications (downtime, set-up time, etc.), team-based notifications, comment tracking, and internal communications. These new capabilities will improve operator efficiency and engagement therefore enabling overall machine, line, and plant efficiency by identifying the areas for process improvement. Plant managers can now have a deeper level of insight into the machine's state providing them with the information they need for better root cause analysis to make better decisions and solve problems with complete information in hand.

To learn more about the Operator Panel and Tickets solutions, please visit http://www.goVIMANA.com/elevate

About VIMANA
VIMANA's software and services provide operational transparency to plant and enterprise-wide performance so manufacturers can uncover ways to improve efficiency, quality, cycle time, cost reduction, and responsiveness to customers. VIMANA's technology fuels Industry 4.0, IIoT and Smart Manufacturing initiatives. With VIMANA's technology, The Language of Smart Manufacturing, our customers can understand their machines, draw brilliant conclusions, make informed decisions, improve manufacturing operations, and elevate performance.

VIMANA offers the leading cloud-based and on-premise predictive analytics platform for manufacturing intelligence. VIMANA's software solves the challenges many manufacturers face in their digital journey: connecting all devices, providing data flow in a consistent way, enriching and integrating data, revealing the true state of the manufacturing process, and offering analytics, visualization, communication, and collaboration solutions that inspire adoption from operators and senior leaders.

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