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November 10, 2016 | Cogiscan Inc.Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Cogiscan Inc. is pleased to announce that it was selected for the 2016 Global Factory Control Solutions Customer Value Leadership Award. The award recognizes Cogiscan’s long-term commitment to innovation that delivers superior value and for building long-lasting relationships with partners and customers.
Ticaram Ramakrishnan, Senior Research Analyst at Frost & Sullivan, commented, “Cogiscan's mission to incorporate information technology within the various stages of the manufacturing process optimizes the electronic assembly process, reducing product failures and increasing overall reliability, thus ensuring that its customers obtain the greatest value from its solutions.”
With an increasing demand for improved quality control processes while maintaining cost efficiency, Cogiscan’s TTC solutions could potentially provide new standards and quality for the electronics manufacturing industry. The company promptly responds to the challenging development of Industry 4.0 through its continual innovative development, best-in-class quality, and effective and successful customer relations.
“Cogiscan built its track, trace, and control solutions with an open architecture design so its customers can benefit from multiple options for future development, instead of limiting its customers’ roadmap to a single vendor solution, therefore offering optimal value now and in the future,” added Ramakrishnan.
Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.
About Cogiscan Inc.
Cogiscan is the leading track, trace and control (TTC solutions provider for the electronics manufacturing industry. The scalable Cogiscan platform perfectly integrates with all major equipment types and is highly configurable to enable a personalized solution to each customer’s specific production needs. Since 1999, Cogiscan has attained several international patents for TTC hardware and software and has won multiple awards throughout the years.
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation, and leadership. The company's Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO's Growth Team with disciplined research and best practice models to drive the generation, evaluation, and implementation of powerful growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan leverages almost 50 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses, and the investment community from 31 offices on 6 continents.
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