American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)

Based in Tokyo, this pneumatic industry pioneer continues to innovate by redefining its development process to deliver winning products that achieve their goals – e.g. the IMACT-V valves allow a typical manufacturing plant to use 50% less compressed air and reduce electric power consumption by 10% or more.

This Japanese leader in temperature control technologies set out to improve productivity and meet customer needs by downsizing new air conditioning equipment by 50%, creating value for users of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, cutting power consumption by two thirds and reducing assembly time by 15%.

One of the world’s premier semiconductor companies increased the number of cross references in its parts database from 100,000 to nearly 2 million. In doing so, the company boosted results of its parts with the lowest searches by 52 percent and helped its customers find alternatives for obsolete parts so they can avoid the need to redesign products.

For more than a century, this manufacturer of packaged consumer goods has served customers around the world and now its decision-makers can access timely, relevant information from internal and external sources to drive innovation and efficiency -- e.g. cutting strategy development time from weeks to hours.