Bangkok--20 Jun--PR One Network “TRECON” arms Thai industries through its introduction of “Minitab” — a powerful analytical software for Six Sigma and statistical quality approach that creates and enhances visual insight information from your business data, and exhibits superior application capacity that helps drive businesses to world class standard and initiative by significantly reducing cost and leads to increasing profitability by up to 30—40% of sales when used properly in conjunction with Six Sigma deployment. In its latest move, the company launches the first Solution Center to respond to its customer demand as a standard for services in the Asia-Pacific market. Mr. Tratip Senivongse Na Ayuddhaya, Managing Director of Trecon Co., Ltd., a leading consulting firm in productivity, quality, and process improvement, as well as an authorized agent for related software, discloses about the setting up of Minitab’s Asia first Solution Center in Thailand to support customer requirements in all business segments that need to create competitive advantage. Solution Center is the center for all knowledge, application, and technologies related to Minitab’s products and the only official agent of Minitab Inc. in Thailand responsible for the sales, training, implementation and consultation of all projects related to quality and statistical based information analysis. Trecon also plans to use this Solution Center as its prototype to serve and to support its customers in the Asia Pacific region and to represent Minitab’s Headquarter in the United States. “Minitab software will help analyze statistical quality information both in production and service segments to the extent that complicated statistical calculation is no longer a burden and any user can now easily and precisely perform the analysis to identify the actual root cause. This will lead to clear corrective actions from the beginning. With built-in comprehensive collection of methods and intuitive quality statistics such as Regression Analysis, ANOVA, SPC, MSA, DOE, etc., Minitab becomes an indispensable tools for Six Sigma implementation which will lead to growth and expansion that will, in turn, enhance global competitiveness. In large multinational industries, Minitab is wildly used as an operative tool in all area where serious business improvement is in place especially where Six Sigma has its share over other initiatives. Currently, all Minitab customers could easily survive the recent crisis with flying colors or even expand their businesses.” At present, all Minitab users said their profit increase due to the fact that they could reduce waste in their production process, which in turn, increase customer satisfaction. When used in combination with Six Sigma implementation, their revenues and profits has significantly increased and their businesses grow steadily with the implementation of Six Sigma and with the help of Minitab. In this regard, after the official launch of its Solution Center in June, Trecon aims to expand its market to cover electronics, automotive and financial segments and sets to secure at least 80% of Six Sigma implementers as Minitab is designed to work seamlessly with Six Sigma. Moreover, there is an evidence to support the trend of Minitab in Thailand showing that more than 80% of Six Sigma implementers in the U.S. are using Minitab as an operative tool. Minitab has been the software of choice for thousands of major corporations in more than 80 countries around the world. Mr. Tratip further added about his consulting experience in productivity improvement in the past 8 years that Trecon is specialized and become expert in Minitab software since release 12. At present, Trecon serves about 1,500 Minitab users nationwide. With the official launch of Solution Center in conjunction with Minitab version 15, he believes that this will increase Minitab usage and create more value to the industries that Minitab serves. In this regard, the company targets to secure more than 90% of its old customers and to increase at least 20% new customers through the following promotions. - Single-user Unit Copy, where every license installed on a computer will receive life time automatic update when new patches are available for the installed release. - Multi-user Annual License, where Minitab is installed on LAN, but can be used simultaneously not more than the number of agreed license. License fee will be paid on an annual basis and will expire after one year. When extended, customers will receive automatic upgrade to a new release. - Multi-user Perpetual-use License, where Minitab is installed on LAN as well, but there will be no expiry date. Customers could then choose to buy an annual maintenance contract in the second year and receive automatic upgrade when the maintenance contract is extended. “This year Trecon’s target for Minitab is to focus on Annual License and to increase Single user by 100 — 130 licenses through Minitab’s authorized partners and Six Sigma consulting firms. In addition, it also sets to launch Minitab new version 15 and its Solution Center in Thailand.”About Trecon Trecon is a consulting firm in the field of productivity improvement as well as an authorized agent for related software. Established since February 1, 1999, Trecon is a leading consulting firm specializing in tailored-made system integration for mid-sized to large multinational businesses. The company invents and integrates many different tools necessary to enhance the original Six Sigma concepts and continuously improve this widely accepted principle and creates “Fusion Six Sigma”, where the original Six Sigma tool set is enhanced to cover more scenarios. Trecon serves in three main areas: consulting, training, and research, where each module is tailored made, and implemented to suit the needs of each customer. The company has special expertise in Business Process Simulation, Six Sigma and Productivity improvement, Intelligent Security Camera System, Desktop System Management, Data Analysis, and Web Application Service. In 2002, Trecon is selected to consult in the Invigorating Thai Business program, which is a government sponsored program under the supervision of Thailand Automotive Institute, Electrical and Electronics Institute and Thailand Productivity Institute. The company eventually joins hands with the aforementioned institutes in giving consultative advice to various businesses, which are members of those esteemed institutes. For more information, please visit www.trecon.th.com About Solution Center Minitab ( www.solutioncenterminitab.com ) With an effort to isolate local Six Sigma consulting task from Minitab’s international local representatives, Solution Center was slowly established in 2006 with it’s headquarter located at 20 minutes west of the new Bangkok International Airport. Closely, following Minitab’s codes of conduct, each Solution Center equally and indistinctly supports all of Minitab’s alliances including global and local Six Sigma consultants. Solution Center, now concentrating mainly on Minitab’s Products, operates independently from its parent company and has becomes the new local representative of Minitab. Before the birth of Solution Center, our distinguished team of highly experienced engineers has been delivering quality improvement solution for more than 10 years. Our clients include large multinational corporations as well as renowned local operating firms. At Solution Center, we made a clear commitment to become a world class leading provider of Minitab and its associated solutions. As Minitab offers the best combination of functionality and ease-of-use along with a full range of supporting capabilities in quality statistics and Six Sigma methodology, Solution Center becomes your neighborhood companion who provides powerful, reliable, and sustainable solution for all Minitab needs. As the Solution Center for Minitab, we work closely with Minitab’s support and development team. This unique relationship enables us to response quickly to any of your statistical requests. We are looking forward to equally fulfill all consultants’ and end users’ needs.About Minitab Inc. ( www.minitab.com ) Minitab Inc. creates statistical software that provides quick, easy, and reliable results for people in both business and academia. Minitab Statistical Software—our flagship product—offers data analysis solutions to users at all levels of statistical expertise. Originally developed in 1972 to help professors teach basic statistics, Minitab is now used in more than 4,000 colleges and universities around the world and is referenced in more than 300 textbooks. Easy to learn and easy to use, Minitab is the statistical software package professors trust. More students have learned Statistics Using Minitab Than Any Other package. Because it offers accurate and customizable tools for quality control, DOE, reliability/survival analysis and general statistics, Minitab is now the preferred data analysis tool for businesses of all sizes and is used in 80 countries throughout the world. 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