Manufacturing Business Technology - December 1, 2002

Call it Morley's Law: the more facts you know about one of manufacturing's more fascinating legends, the harder it is to actually pigeonhole the guy. Dick Morley is... well, the father of the programmable logic controller (PLC), for one thing. He's a serial business "angel," for another, having helped 110 startups into existence.

• Columnists
• Talk Back
• He begs to differ
• Up Front
• Inventiveness + impact = legend

• Departments
• News at the Front
• News at the ISA front
• All in the family
• In brief
• SYSPRO rebrands, leveraging well-known SYSPRO name
• USDATA names former interim CFO to interim CEO
• Another company's treasure
• Not your father's ISA

• Features
• Deliver
• The answer lays outside
• Maybe this is rocket science
• Channel master
• Fix it first
• Make
• Impact on industrial automation
• Beyond WIP status
• Visibility envisioned—and delivered
• Plan
• Suites made simpler
• An unsung hero
• Global & integrated ... but by no means a breeze
• Righting systemic wrongs
• ERP expert looks outward
• Source
• Innovation enabler
• A living platform
• Putting partners into the act

• Special Report
• You can never go back