Manufacturing Business Technology - June 1, 2003

For all the talk about enterprise performance management, for some companies, performance may be getting its biggest nudge at the plant-floor level with a new generation of manufacturing intelligence solutions. The software packages that fall under this banner vary, but their users, instead of talking technology, can list tangible benefits—like less scrap.

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