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User groups keep Global 100 vendors moving in the right direction
By Staff - 07/01/2007
No vendor could generate enough revenues to qualify for the Manufacturing Business Technology Global 100 without a sizeable customer base, nor could they stay on the list very long without taking continual steps to keep those customers happy. This inherent need to maintain high customer satisfaction rates has caused many of the Global 100 vendors to adopt what at one time would have been consid... More

Doing a Double-Take: SCADA replication software refines Carlsberg plant operations
Malcolm Wheatley, senior contributing editor, Leeds, U.K. - 05/09/2008
At the Leeds, U.K. brewing & bottling plant of Danish brewing group Carlsberg, an asynchronous fail-over and replication solution from Double-Take Software is keeping production going when server failures take critical systems off-line. More
Closing the loop: Global services partnership supports packaging manufacturing operations
04/09/2008
AICOMP is teaming up with Apriso and the SAP Industry Value Network (IVN) to deliver innovative solutions for packaging manufacturers. A recent deployment successfully integrates Apriso’s operations execution solution with SAP ERP at multiple locations for one of the largest paper and packaging companies in the world. More
Pharma makers secure full chain of custody using Acsis track & trace
By Jim Fulcher, contributing editor (jimfulcher@comcast.net) - 04/01/2008
It's one thing to track drugs moving through production; following them throughout the supply chain is the bigger headache—and one for which there is no magic pill. “As an industry, pharmaceutical manufacturers are taking steps to quickly respond to evolving patient safety requirements,” says Andre Pino, chief marketing officer at Acsis, a track & trace solutions supplier. More
Automating vendor managed inventory in the ultracompetitive papermaking industry
By Malcolm Wheatley, senior contributing editor - 04/01/2008
Korsnäs AB makes the specialty board and papers used in packaging liquid and food products. Papermaking at the moment is an intensely competitive industry. In fact, Korsnäs says competition within its carton board segment is higher as a result of imports from low-cost countries like Brazil and Chile, the weakened state of the U. More
Sidney Hill, Jr.: Boeing's tanker contract protest raises questions about globalization
By Sidney Hill, Jr., executive editor - 04/01/2008
When Boeing filed its formal protest of the U.S. Air Force's decision to award a $40 billion contract to build refueling tankers to a competing bidder, the Chicago-based aircraft maker also raised a profound question: Do U.S.-based corporations want to compete in a global marketplace, or do they merely want to reap the spoils of globalization? This question arose because the winning bidder is a... More
Takeda deploys electronic batch system on drug manufacturing line
03/28/2008
With a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, Takeda was eager to implement a cost-reduction strategy while improving operational performance and quality. More
Classification by numbers: Dutch chemicals manufacturer adopts e Cl@ss-based spend analysis
Malcolm Wheatley, senior contributing editor, Heerlen, The Netherlands - 03/28/2008
Colin Rickard, a managing director with data-management specialist DataFlux, says work with chemicals giant DSM prompted development of an off-the-shelf commodity coding solution for the purchasing and spend-analysis process that saves users time when managing data quality with international coding standards such as UNSPSC and e Cl@ss. More
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