FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeQent announces that Ford Motor Company has signed an Master Software License Agreement (MSLA) for their North American Operations London, ON - January 17, 2011 - SeQent (http://www.SeQent.com), the leading provider of innovative real-time Automated Messaging, Visual Display Management and Wireless Kanban solutions announced today that Ford Motor Company has signed a Master Software License Agreement (MSLA) for their North American Operations. This agreement is for an agreed upon Bill of Material (BOM) for both FirstPAGE and Marquee Manager family of products. This allows Ford Motor Company to install these licenses in any of their plants or testing labs in North America. Subsequent phases will be to negotiate pricing for Europe, South America & Asia Pacific Operations. “This agreement demonstrates Ford Motor Company's commitment to SeQent, the direction of the company and our Real-Time Decision Support platform. We are very pleased with how our partnership has evolved over the last two decades and look forward to supporting this world class manufacturing company as they continue to produce top quality vehicles.” said, Scott Burns, Founder and CTO of SeQent. SeQent is a leading provider of hardware and software solutions that accelerate the decision making process enabling companies to improve plant productivity and quality increasing plant floor visibility and ultimately profitability. The SeQent Real-Time Decision Support (RTDS) solution is a transformational and modular based technology platform. This solution utilizes a logic/rules based engine that manages the lifecycle of an alarm and/or event, ensuring the incident has been resolved. The Automated Messaging, Visual Display Management and Wireless Kanban modules send alarm and event information to mobile phones, pagers, PDA's, LED & LCD displays, sounder devices, stack lights as well as Motorola TEAM VoWLAN smartphones and MOTOTRBO two-way radios. In support of their Continuous Improvement initiatives SeQent's solutions are utilized by some of the world's largest manufacturers including: Abbott Nutrition, Chrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Georgia Pacific, Honda, Intel, Kellogg's, SC Johnson, Toyota and WS Packaging. The company is privately held and is headquartered in London, Ontario. For further information, please visit http://www.SeQent.com or e-mail: sales@seqent.com All product and company names listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies. Press Contact: Scott BurnsSeQent Ltd. +1.519.652.0401 Scott.Burns@SeQent.com ### |
