Manufacturing Business Technology - December 1, 2001

When he ran a company that sold computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/ CAM) software, Mitch Free often played matchmaker."If I was on the golf course with someone from an engineering firm, they would be looking for more manufacturers they could outsource work to," recalls Free, whose own company was a value-added reseller (VAR) for multiple CAD/CAM software suppliers.

• Columnists
• Back Talk
• Tylenol meets Y2K
• Issue Analysis
• Integration looms large in best-of-breed debate
• Lessons from the high-tech wreck
• Up Front
• Information and cooperation

• Departments
• New Products
• ORTEMS delivers collaborative manufacturing planning
• New interBiz ERP suite focuses on integrated logistics management
• Indus announces pure-Internet EAM
• News at the Front
• And now the sequel
• In Brief
• Does SAP know PLM?
• Virtual venue highlights concrete collaboration
• Back to basics
• Challenging times call for bold initiatives

• Features
• Deliver
• Logistics turns proactive
• Make
• Plants find a new pace
• Plan
• Keep an open eye

• Technology Topic
• The integration market gels