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GE broadens multi-vendor asset
management portfolio
Launches new services including
instrument financing, facility relocation and process optimization
Pistcataway, NJ , MARCH 3, 2008 – GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric
Company (NYSE: GE) and a leading global provider of asset management services,
has announced the expansion of its Scientific Asset Service program to
incorporate options for instrument financing, facility relocation, and GE’s
Performance Solutions, alongside multi-vendor instrument maintenance and repair.
These additional services have been included in response to an increasing trend
towards outsourcing in the biotech and pharma industries, and will provide
comprehensive support for customers through the entire lifecycle of their
assets.
The new financing solutions offering allows customers to lease single
instruments or to finance entire laboratories, providing a tailored, fast and
cost-effective route to improved facilities. Customers can also obtain loans to
purchase equipment or free up capital by entering into sale and leaseback
arrangements.
From planning to successful execution, specialists at GE Healthcare will ensure
that required facility relocations are undertaken within agreed timeframes and
to exacting standards, meeting specific laboratory process requirements.
GE Healthcare's Performance Solutions brings the company’s renowned Six Sigma
and LEAN approaches to biopharmaceutical companies, helping to optimize their
processes, thereby enhancing cost-effectiveness and efficiency. GE Healthcare
has extensive experience using these tools in a wide range of industries, from
hospitals to aircraft maintenance, where the desire for operational quality,
speed and excellence is key.
“GE Healthcare is leveraging its reach to offer an unparalleled array of
services to laboratories through one provider”, commented Bob Moore, Services
Commercial Leader at GE Healthcare Life Sciences. “We are continuing to listen
to our customers in order to anticipate their future needs. Our service program
is well-respected in the life science industry, demonstrated by the recent
addition of new customers in Europe, Japan and North America”.
GE Healthcare has over ten years’ experience in multi-vendor asset management.
Through its SAS programs, GE enables customers to improve inventory accuracy and
gain extensive insight into their laboratory assets through the use of its
proprietary software, AssetPlus™.
About GE Healthcare’s Scientific Asset Services
GE Healthcare Life Sciences offers Scientific Asset Services that are proven to
reduce operating costs while enhancing productivity and compliance. Based on the
breadth of GE as a company, GE Healthcare can provide one of the most complete
asset lifecycle management service on the market, from financing, through
process optimization, equipment maintenance and repair, to on-site support and
relocation services. The asset service is supported by industry leading
technologies to improve asset utilization, including GE’s proprietary software
AssetPlus™. The GE SAS programs are supported by highly experienced, GMP-trained,
service engineers worldwide who can maintain equipment from multiple
original-equipment manufacturers covering a wide range of processes. GE
Healthcare also rigorously applies LEAN and Six Sigma principles to its
management of companies’ scientific assets, ensuring that the services provided
run efficiently.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that
are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and
information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems,
performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing
technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to
predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their
lives to the fullest.
GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers
to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and
other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early
health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease
detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE
Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE).
Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 47,000 people committed to serving
healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more
information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at
www.gehealthcare.com .
Contact
GE Healthcare, Americas
Arvind Gopalratnam
+1 262-501-0777
arvind.gopalratnam@ge.com
GE Healthcare, International
Conor McKechnie
+44 771 751 7028
conor.mckechnie@ge.com
College Hill
Lorna Cuddon, Dr Marc Egelhofer, Katie Odgaard
+44 (0)20 7457 2020
ge-sas@collegehill.com
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