There’s a new kid on the block among vendors of manufacturing systems for use in industries that rely on continuous process machines for the manufacture of paper products. That’s the target market for BlueQue Systems, formed recently as a separate unit of Bedford Park, Ill.-based Corrugated Supplies Corp. (CSC)
BlueQue’s product, called the I-Que Manufacturing Suite, is a commercialized version of the internal system that CSC developed for its own use, says BlueQue President David Pung, who headed up development of the system as CSC’s director of information systems.
Pung sees the BlueQue business as one way to ensure that the team that helped develop the CSC custom software remains intact, and continues to advance the technology. BlueQue currently has 10 employees, he says. Pung also sees a market for the software in an industry space that he says is not well-served by traditional manufacturing solutions.
BlueQue has so far signed up two customers for its product. ECM Converting Co., a Mendon, Mich., maker of cardboard sheets, is expected go live with the system in mid-April, while Fibre Converters, a fiber board maker based in Constantine, Mich., will convert to the BlueQue system later this year, according to Pung.
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