New Clarity Solutions Suite Connects Data, Machines, People and
Processes to Drive Operational Performance
Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), a global technology company that provides
innovative products and solutions to power commerce, today announced its
latest innovation in production mail, the Clarity
solutions suite. The new SaaS-based offering leverages the physical
and digital technologies of the Industrial Internet to integrate and
organize data collected from sensors on production mail machines to
support real-time insight, predictive analytics and prescriptive
maintenance.
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Hosted on GE’s Predix platform, Clarity represents the first
commercially available solution generated by Pitney
Bowes’ collaboration with GE to bring the power of the Industrial
Internet to the production mail industry.
“The Industrial Internet is transforming everything from aviation to
healthcare to oil field and energy services,” said Yonatan Hagos, GM of
Emerging Verticals for GE Digital. “The Pitney Bowes Clarity solutions
suite demonstrates how companies are using cloud technologies – like the
Predix platform – and analytics to transform their go to market strategy
and reinvent their businesses.”
Many of the world’s leading insurers, telecommunications companies and
financial institutions rely on Pitney Bowes to process billions of
pieces of mail annually. There is an intense focus on security, speed,
accuracy and precision. Faced with increasing competition and cost
pressures, mail operations are constantly looking for ways to improve
efficiency and productivity, and maintain a competitive advantage. By
connecting industrial sensors, machine data, people and processes, the
Clarity solutions suite helps clients access new intelligence to drive
higher levels of operational performance.
“In its simplest form, production mail is about getting the right
information, in the right envelope, to the right customer at precisely
the right time, millions of times each day. It is an industry measured
in tenths-of-pennies and fractions-of-seconds. Clarity provides our
clients with a view of their operations and our industry on a micro and
global level that was never before visible – from the performance of a
specific motor on a single machine, to the productivity benchmarks of
leading print and mail operations around the world,” said Jason Dies,
president, Pitney Bowes Document Messaging Technologies. “The insights
derived from Clarity allow us to quickly identify strengths and
weaknesses in our clients’ print and mail operations and recommend
solutions to improve both productivity and capability.”
Clarity is a disruptive technology that will help clients achieve
operational excellence. The suite includes three offerings:
Clarity Advisor offers an intelligent view into equipment
performance to help drive machine efficiency. It proactively monitors
trends and patterns to diagnose and resolve many issues before they
occur resulting in increased runtime capacity and reduced risk of
downtime.
Clarity Optimizer leverages actionable insights and industry
benchmarks to identify an optimal combination of jobs, machines and
operators to help clients improve equipment performance, operational
productivity and capacity.
Clarity Scheduler provides real-time adaptive scheduling to help
clients meet critical service-level agreements and drive productivity.
It learns and becomes more intelligent over time, linking a range of
variables, including available operators and equipment, jobs in
production and planned downtime into one dynamic schedule.
Clarity will be available on Pitney Bowes production mail inserting
solutions in North America in March, 2016, Europe in Q2 and globally by
2017.
Pitney Bowes is a member of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC).
Jason Dies, President of Document Messaging Technologies, will be
discussing Clarity at an IIC
public forum on March 17 in Reston, Va.
Clarity will be on display at drupa2016,
the world’s leading trade show for graphic and industrial print, media
and multichannel, May 31 – June 10 in Dusseldorf, Germany. Attend the
Pitney Bowes press briefing on June 1st at 2:00 p.m. in Room
7A, or visit the Pitney Bowes booth, D59 in Hall 4.
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) is a global technology company offering
innovative products and solutions that enable commerce in the areas of
customer information management, location intelligence, customer
engagement, shipping and mailing, and global ecommerce. More than 1.5
million clients in approximately 100 countries around the world rely on
products, solutions and services from Pitney Bowes. For additional
information, visit Pitney Bowes at www.pitneybowes.com.
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