Teijin Pharma Deploys Datastream 7i in Manufacturing Site to Optimize Asset Performance and Meet Regulatory Requirements
Datastream Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSTM) today announced that Teijin Pharma Limited is deploying the Datastream 7i(TM) Asset Performance Management solution in its manufacturing site in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Teijin Pharma chose Datastream because of its demonstrated success at reducing operating costs, improving equipment availability and supporting compliance with government regulations. The deployment was led by Datastream Japan’s partner, JGC Corporation.
With a staff of approximately 1,600 people, Teijin Pharma is a member of the Teijin Industrial Group and competes in the Japanese pharmaceutical sector with operations and business interests throughout Japan. Teijin Pharma is the developer of leading pharmaceutical products including Bonalon(R), a treatment for osteoporosis; Venilon(R), a treatment for severe infectious diseases; and Mucosolvan(R), an expectorant. The company is also striving to further strengthen its activities and relationships throughout the world.
Because Datastream 7i provides comprehensive functionality including calibration and electronic signatures and records, it has emerged as the leading Asset Performance Management solution among pharmaceutical companies worldwide. This deployment also adds to Datastream’s growing momentum in the Asia-Pacific region, with Teijin Pharma joining a growing number of Japanese companies using Datastream solutions both in Japan and overseas.
“The multi-organization, multi-language capabilities of Datastream 7i make it the ideal Asset Performance Management solution for companies engaged in the Asia-Pacific region,” said Larry Blackwell, Datastream’s president and CEO. “Companies can seamlessly deploy Datastream 7i across multiple facilities in different countries and fully conform to the cultural, linguistic and monetary requirements of each location. This combination of localized functionality and centralized data collection and analysis enables Asset Performance Management on an international scale.”
“Datastream and JGC have a strong track record of success in Japan,” said Yoshiaki Nagata, principal system engineer with JGC Corporation. “We have worked with Teijin Pharma and Datastream to deploy a comprehensive solution that fully supports Teijin Pharma’s manufacturing processes. Datastream 7i enables Teijin Pharma to reduce operating costs and improve equipment uptime.”
Dale Suzuki, managing director of Datastream Japan, noted that there is strong interest in Asset Performance Management solutions within the Japanese pharmaceutical sector as a result of strengthening compliance and regulatory measures in the country. “We believe Japan’s pharmaceutical industry is paying close attention to compliance trends in the U.S. and Europe,” said Suzuki. “Pharmaceutical companies worldwide share a common challenge: to adopt solutions that enable them to comply with regulations, while simultaneously reducing operating costs and improving equipment uptime, product quality and safety. Datastream 7i enables them to meet this challenge through the implementation of Asset Performance Management.”
About Datastream Systems, Inc.
Datastream Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSTM) provides Asset Performance Management software and services to enterprises worldwide, including more than 65 percent of the Fortune 500. Datastream’s solutions combine world-class asset management functionality with advanced analytics to deliver a powerful platform for optimizing enterprise asset performance.
By using Datastream’s solutions, customers can maintain and manage capital assets – such as manufacturing equipment, vehicle fleets and buildings – and create analyses and forecasts so they can take action to improve future performance. Datastream’s flagship product, Datastream 7i(TM), delivers a complete Asset Performance Management infrastructure by combining an Internet, web services architecture with broad enterprise asset management functionality, integrated procurement, advanced analytics and multi-site capability.
Datastream was founded in 1986 and has customers in more than 140 countries. For more information, visit www.datastream.net .
About JGC Corporation
Established in 1928, JGC Corporation has developed a diverse business base. JGC specializes in providing customers with highly advanced engineering and solutions technologies coupled with excellent project management services in the hydrocarbons and manufacturing sectors. JGC has accumulated experience in over 20,000 projects performed in over 70 countries.
JGC provides a complete package of follow-up services for its clients designed to take full advantage of each business’s lifecycle. These services provide assistance with operations support and maintenance, together with providing systems solutions. For more information, visit www.jgc.co.jp .
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This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to: increasing competition in the markets in which the Company competes; the stability of certain of the Company’s strategic relationships, including those with suppliers of maintenance, repair and operations parts; the ability of the Company to: sell larger and more complex software solutions, successfully transition to the development of further Internet-based products, successfully implement an application service provider business model, enhance its current products and develop new products that address technological and market developments; and other risk factors listed from time to time in Datastream’s SEC reports, including, but not limited to the “Risk Factors” contained in the Datastream’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003. Datastream does not have, and expressly disclaims, any obligation to release publicly any updates or any changes in the Company’s expectations or any changes in events, conditions or circumstances on which any forward-looking statement is based.
