Caterpillar, Statsoft to join to improve manufacturing.(AUTOMOTIVE)

Caterpillar Inc. and Statsoft Inc., announce the general release of Proceed, a turnkey software solution designed for the modeling, optimization, and simulation of complex manufacturing processes. The Proceed software is based on the integration of Caterpillar's patent-pending analytic processes powered by the suite of Statistica enterprise analytics software. Caterpillar's cutting-edge analytic processes are used to effectively simulate, predict, and optimize the outcome of complex manufacturing processes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] StatSoft deployed ...