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MCA Solutions was a US-based provider of decision support technology for spare parts planning and management. Founded in 1999, MCA Solutions worked with complex equipment manufacturers to determine optimal spare parts stocking levels and locations to support equipment in the field and increase product availability. MCA Solutions was purchased by Marlin Equity Partners and merged with Servigistics in March 2013. In October 2013, PTC purchased Servigistics to complement its Service Lifecycle Management strategy. MCA's technology can be classified as spare parts planning, service parts planning, service parts optimization, service parts management, Strategic Service Management, service management and readiness based sparing. ==History== In the 1980s, Dr. Morris Cohen and Dr. Vipul Agrawal recognized the revenue-generating capability of the service supply chain and established new algorithms, methodologies and workflows that would identify opportunities to reduce inventory investment, while improving customer satisfaction. Their work gained attention from manufacturers including General Motors and IBM. In 1999, Dr. Cohen and Dr. Agrawal officially founded MCA Solutions as a decision support technology company for spare parts planning and developed its Service Planning and Optimization (SPO) software suite. MCA Solutions serves manufacturers in the following industries: aerospace and defense, high technology, capital equipment, oil & gas, medical and semiconductor. Today, Dr. Cohen is the Panasonic Professor of Manufacturing and Logistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and continues to work with PTC as a Strategic Consultant. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MCA Solutions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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