Apriso Expands Mobile Offerings with FlexNet for Android

March 13, 2012 - PRLog -- Apriso, a leading provider of manufacturing software solutions, today announced availability of a new mobile FlexNet application for Android users, to join the already released iPad and iPhone application (see October 2011 press release). This announcement demonstrates Apriso’s commitment to providing a vendor-agnostic application infrastructure for its customer’s mobile devices. This Android application enables access to the functionality provided by FlexNet’s Manufacturing Execution System.
   
Android-based tablets and phones, including products made by Motorola, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba now have access to Apriso’s complete suite of core FlexNet applications, including Production, Warehouse, Quality, Maintenance and Time & Labor. Apriso’s customers stand to reap the following benefits by using this new app:

- Greater flexibility to execute business processes from Android-based computer tablets and phones
- Expanded remote access to FlexNet to monitor system performance 24/7
- Simplified execution of maintenance or quality inspections with large-screened tablets or Phones
- Faster performance of exception handling or alert responses from an expanded variety of mobile devices

“Mobile workers and supervisors are driving greater adoption of tablet technologies in warehouse, quality and maintenance management positions. Android devices are one of several mobile platforms now being used by manufacturing executives to view business processes and manufacturing intelligence, from wherever they might be,” said John Fishell, vice president of product management at Apriso. “Apriso will continue its strategy of remaining device agnostic in order to best support the highly heterogeneous equipment environments running Apriso’s FlexNet; this latest release offers further support of this directive.”

This Android-based application is now available for immediate download.

To read an Q&A with John Fishell, vice president of product management at Apriso, go to Apriso's blog here: apriso.com/blog

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Apriso Corporation is a manufacturing software company dedicated to providing competitive advantage for its customers. It does so by enabling organizations to adapt quickly and easily to market changes and unexpected events.