wiredinUSA August 2015

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John Gibson

Industry charter

Software upgrade

Hitachi Cable America Inc (HCA), performance cable systems and materials division, is to migrate its product data into the cable design software, CableBuilder. It is expected that, with CableBuilder, the product data will be more efficient to access and maintain. After a thorough analysis, the HCA team concluded that CableBuilder covers all its requirements in engineering, quoting and product data management processes. John Gibson, executive vice president at Hitachi Cable America, said: “With CableBuilder we invest in a sustainable solution that helps us to capture and leverage our experience and expertise in our engineering team. The project contributes to our objectives to become even more agile and innovative. Most importantly, we are striving to better serve our customers with our new quotation and specification capabilities. “The InnoVites team complements the CableBuilder solution with their consulting services. Their vast experience in our industry makes sure that we implement the best practices in the shortest possible time.” InnoVites is a partner of Cimteq, the owner of the CableBuilder software.

Europacable members have endorsed the Europacable industry charter, a document that expresses a collective commitment to the shared principles and objectives of ethical, sustainable and high quality cable development and manufacturing. The charter is a formal expression of Europacablemembers: acknowledgement of the need to meet the demands of business stakeholders, while at the same time defending the interests of employees, customers, the wider community and the environment, with a strong commitment not only to meeting the basic requirements of the law, but also taking a proactive role in monitoring and evaluating emerging issues and finding solutions that exceed the minimum requirements. The charter was presented to Europacable members for signing on the occasion of the Europacable General Assembly in late April and now that members have signed it and committed to fulfill the principles contained in the charter, Europacable has launched it publicly. Europacable gathers approximately 85 percent of the European wire and cable industry, covering the full range of insulated wires and cables, and metallic and optical fiber data and telecommunications wires and cables.

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