With continuous roll-outs of innovative technology solutions, new doors of opportunities have opened for IT in product design manufacturing landscape. Earlier, the expertise of the IT department was only limited within the internal walls of organizations. However, today they are playing a major role in streamlining the operations at the plant sites. Various manufacturing organizations across the globe are striving to adopt the latest IT solutions to enhance their product offerings. This being said, only a handful of enterprises has actually reshaped themselves as the prominent player of the manufacturing ecosystem. Montreal, Canada-based KEOPS Technologies is one such company that delivers end-to-end solutions for driving efficiency in the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) processes.

“Our solutions cover the entire spectrum of product development, starting from strategizing, designing, and testing, to upgrading and end support consulting,” says Lynn Kowalski, Business Development, KEOPS Technologies. The mission statement of the company is to instill the quality and agility quotients in the products being manufactured, ensuring yield and end consumer satisfaction. “Innovation and IT is the key to survive for manufacturing organizations, which also plays as a differentiating factor in the competition dominant period of today,” states Kowalski. To keep their foothold strong and vehement, the company leverages both elements for optimizing their PLM offerings. “PLM is a key component to ensuring the accuracy and quality of the consumer product,” she adds. With KEOPS’s expertise in PLM space, the company bridges ERP and Shop Floor Systems to share data, models, 3D representations and virtualization, documentation, and regulatory information.

Since their inception in 1982, KEOPS has catered myriad of organizations coming from different verticals. “From having the desired agility and quality in product design that meets the global requirements, to monitoring line-to-line efficiency, reducing waste, and augmenting yield, our services span across entire manufacturing elements,” says Kowalski. KEOPS has customers in Consumer Package Goods (CPG), Energy, Food and Beverages, Packaging, and Retailers industry that span across five continents. Since each country maintains its own regulatory laws, the company ensures that their PLM and Supply Chain Management solutions remain in compliance with them.

KEOPS has partnered with multiple large technological corporations such as Dassault Systemes, InfinityQS, Rockwell Automation to lead the industry with domain expertise in Quality & Regulatory, MES, Labor, R&D, PLM, Environment, Health & Safety and Logistics. “This is represented in our core value of providing manufacturing excellence to the brand manufacturers,” declares Kowalski.