Manufacturing Business Technology - April 1, 2001

Flow manufacturing could be the ideal production philosophy for the Internet age. It enables building defect-free, custom products with little or no lead time. It also allows a business to operate almost inventory-free because every item the factory produces is earmarked for shipment to a specific customer even before production begins.

• Columnists
• Back talk
• Back on the soap box
• Issue analysis
• Competing supply chains: the business model for the future
• Up front
• Two worlds shaping up

• Departments
• News
• The next hefty thing
• UGS, i2 team up on CPC
• Ariba takes aim at value chains
• i2 absorbs RightWorks
• Manugistics announces agreements with Agile, NetVendor
• Fourth Shift to be acquired by AremisSoft
• IN BRIEF

• Features
• Deliver
• Fit to order
• Plan
• Can CPC make the leap?
• Source
• Demand success

• National Manufacturing Week
• CPC at NMW

• Technology Topic
• The wireless wave