In today’s manufacturing environment, achieving optimal efficiency is not just important; it’s a crucial part of remaining competitive. If you are a manufacturer looking for a competitive edge – a proven way to increase plant floor productivity, then you need to watch this new, informative XL movie from Vorne.

Want to learn more about XL? Talk to a Vorne lean-trained professional at 1-877-767-LEAN.

Vorne is pleased to announce the release of the XL Quick Start Guide. XL is easy, and the Quick Start Guide makes it even easier. The XL Quick Start Guide facilitates fast deployment, enabling users to go from shipping carton to plant floor performance management in about an hour. How? It leverages the fact that XL is preconfigured with a rich set of production monitoring and performance management tools that provide immediate, out-of-the-box functionality.

Learn more by contacting Vorne at 1-877-767-LEAN, or email us and request your own copy of the XL Quick Start Guide.

The all-new XL Tools CD from Vorne brings a whole new level of simplicity to configuring XL devices. Innovative “quick-start” templates provide out-of-the-box, ready-to-go performance management functionality and make XL easier and faster than ever to get running in just about any manufacturing environment. Plus, a new point-and-click, browser-based configuration interface makes it easy for end-users to customize XL operation for their specific applications.

The XL Tools CD includes the latest version XL firmware and is available as a free upgrade for all XL customers. Contact Vorne at 1-877-767-LEAN or email us for more information.

Vorne is pleased to announce the release of an all-new role-based security feature for XL products. Three easy-to-use predefined roles provide layered access control to the XL web page interface. The Guest role provides access to real-time and historical production KPIs and metrics, and does not require login. The Supervisor role adds access to device settings such as takt time, ideal cycle time, goals, job ID, and shift ID. The Administrator role adds access to device configuration and advanced diagnostic tools.

The role-based security feature is available as a free upgrade to all XL customers. Contact Vorne at 1-877-767-LEAN or email for more information.

The challenge: Corporate management needed a solution that could collect real-time data from literally hundreds of production assets across more than a dozen manufacturing plants and seamlessly feed this information to their SAP ERP system. After studying a wide range of solutions the Vorne XL400 was selected for its ability to non-intrusively collect real-time performance data from virtually any production asset and cleanly deliver this data to a wide range of enterprise systems.

The result: XL enabled the customer to focus on beating their competition instead of managing costly and time-consuming integration projects.

XL solutions start at around a thousand dollars. Call 877-767-LEAN for a free 90-day trial.

Vorne is pleased to announce that it has achieved its third consecutive year of record sales. Strong growth in 2007 was driven by Vorne’s unique combination of lean manufacturing expertise and easy-to-implement performance management products, such as the highly innovative XL800 Productivity Appliance™.