Today, while many manufacturing companies use mass market Commercial-off-the-shelf ERP (COTS) software, they are unable to create unique value and strategic differentiators. They often require integrated solutions to leverage their uniqueness to deliver compelling value to their customers. Headquartered in Southborough, MA, Trigent Software delivers Cloud, Mobile, or COTS products to enable manufacturing companies gain visibility on the industry, and help them balance their cost-performance parameters. The company analyzes the challenges that occur while establishing flexible IT solutions in the areas of CRM, analytics, and ERP for an improved manufacturing operations and helps in improving operational efficiency and productivity.

Trigent has built a formidable suite of proprietary high performance solutions in the areas of Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, semantic platform and now big data/analytics solutions and has filed several patents. Most importantly, “We have delivered tremendous value in the areas of rules engines. Many customers have a large number of engineering, operational and governance rules that need to be followed across all their business processes and the efficiency at which these rules can be authored, configured, version controlled and managed by business users is vital to the business success,” states Chuck Rehberg, CTO, Trigent Software. The next generations of these rules are providing capability to auto-suggest and generate rules through enhanced system intelligence and the ability to have semantics based natural language interface to these rules. Trigent’s proprietary FRSE Rules Engine (Fast Rules Selection Engine) has built-in sequence matching, to enable real-time situational analysis and it has a partial match capability that provides situational guidance for both outcome prediction and problem correction and avoidance in the manufacturing sector.

For manufacturing companies, the biggest challenges are related to changing product specifications, models, assemblies and sub-assemblies. “However, Trigent’s customers have handled changes with minimal disruption and cost savings. This is because Trigent uses Rules Based Systems to enable mass customization,” says Rehberg. Furthermore, Trigent has helped companies to access data in real-time using its Microsoft SharePoint. “The custom built and architected SharePoint BI Accelerators has helped customers to procure data from ERP, CRM, PLM and other data intensive applications,” says Rehberg.