Manufacturing Business Technology - November 1, 2001

Russ Fadel has a complaint and a mission. President of Exton, Pa.-based Lighthammer Software Development Corp., Fadel complains that while significant strides are being made in business-to-business (B2B) connectivity using eXtensible markup language (XML), the plant floor is being left out of the equation.

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