MTS Systems Corporation Selects GyrusAim Learning Management Systems

Richmond, VA · December 19, 2012. Gyrus Systems, a leader in the Learning Management Systems (LMS) announced today that the MTS Systems Corporation a leading supplier of test systems and industrial position sensors in the Americas, Europe, and Asia has selected GyrusAim Learning Management System to enhance the company's efforts to provide excellence in training and compliance. Gyrus Systems helps companies like MTS Systems Corporation gain a competitive edge by shortening training time, increasing workforce proficiency and effectiveness, and reducing the risk of business disruptions due to non-compliance and turnover at critical positions.

As a leading supplier of test systems and industrial position sensors in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, MTS Systems Corporation has support staff and manufacturing facilities around the world. Having the ability to deliver learning to a widely dispersed, multilingual workforce is essential to MTS Systems Corporation business. Additionally, being a manufacturing company, MTS Systems Corporation must comply with stringent regulatory requirements. To meet both their training and compliance needs, MTS Systems Corporation chose Gyrus System's LMS, GyrusAim. By partnering with Gyrus Systems, MTS Systems Corporation will have the ability to streamline learning management across the organization and utilize the validated reporting capabilities for improved compliance and audit readiness. Further, an advanced learning management solution like GyrusAim provides MTS Systems Corporation the ability to efficiently implement a complete competency management system. Of critical importance was the need to provide a comprehensive history of all of the training the company has provided and recorded in their legacy LMS.

Gyrus developed an automated process to capture 14 years of historical training records and bring them into the new GyrusAim LMS so they could be used both to demonstrate compliancy and to provide a basis upon which future training needs could be defined and managed. By migrating the historical data into the new system, all training records are now available in one place removing the need to maintain and refer to a copy of the old database.

“The Gyrus team is excited to apply our expertise and best practices to our partner MTS Systems Corporation and their global rollout in 5 countries,” said Viren Kapadia, President & CEO of Gyrus Systems. “By providing them with a high quality Learning Management System, we hope that it will lead to better technical products and services for MTS Systems Corporation and an improved training process and overall workforce.”

About Gyrus

Gyrus Systems is the one-stop solution for the efficient management of any size training program. Since 1987, 425+ companies worldwide have put Gyrus Systems' learning management technologies to work making their operation more efficient, more productive, and a greater contributor to the success of their organization. The company is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. For more information, please visit https://www.gyrus.com/.

About MTS Systems Corporation

MTS Systems Corporation supplies test systems and industrial position sensors in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The company's Sensors segment manufactures products utilizing magnetostriction technology for manufacturers of mobile equipment, plastic injection molding machines, and wood product processing equipment, as well as to steel mill, fluid power, oil and gas, medical, and alternative energy industries. It also offers products to measure fluid displacement for customers in the process industries. MTS Systems Corporation was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. For more information, please visit http://www.mts.com/.