AND-ONs Improve Plant Productivity
AND-ON is actually a Japanese word for marquees. Most Japanese plants in the early eighties recognized that in order to achieve their productivity gain targets, it was vital to communicate important production information, whether it relates to production rates, downtime and uptime data, alarm messages or simply displaying motivational or employee recognition messages. They wanted to have these messages displayed for visibility over hundreds of feet.

Americans and Europeans Begin to Follow Suit
American and European plants, wanting to achieve the same productivity gains, started to use marquees extensively in the late eighties and early nineties. However, the price of these AND-ONs or Marquees remain out of reach for most smaller plants. The
prices range from $5,000 to $50,000 depending on the number and size of characters, and typically you had to buy 50 plus marquees to get these prices.

EZMarquee Makes Visual Productivity Tools Affordable for Everyone!

Introduction of the EZMarquee with the established Uticor reliability, now makes these important productivity tools available to smaller companies even in single quantities. Not only can a small company now afford to put marquees on it’s plant floor, EZAutomation delivers on it’s promise of “Twice the Features, at Less than Half the Cost!” A typical AND-ON is not very flexible and essentially a custom product with letters engraved all over the display. If you need to make a change once you ordered your custom AND-ON, guess what? YOU’RE STUCK! Not with EZMarquee. Even at half the cost, EZMarquee is completely flexible. Every character is programmable the way you want it.