Manufacturing Business Technology - October 1, 2003

A long time ago, a little guy named David became famous for knocking off a giant with his trusty slingshot. More recently, Hologic, a $200-million manufacturer of imaging systems for the women's health-care market, mastered the use of product life-cycle management (PLM) strategies and technologies to maintain its ground in competition with GE Medical Systems, a $9-billion division of a...

• Columnists
• Back Talk
• IT use and misuse begin at home
• Up Front
• Ready for EPC compliance?

• Corporate Project
• Financial restatements up; misstated revenues most often the cause
• Sisyphus and serendipity
• Accounting Practices
• i2 Technologies: how low can it go?
• E-Connectivity
• Growth in e-Business challenged on several fronts
• Executive View
• China trip focuses on world trade, global manufacturing
• Online Information
• Use of "natural language" a step forward for search engine users
• Security
• Technology counters counterfeit trade

• Departments
• Hot Bytes
• Hot bytes
• IT by the Numbers
• Expectations for EAI spend
• Manager's Agenda
• Shingo prize just a start for this VP of manufacturing
• Metrics that Matter
• Forecast accuracy
• The Politics of Productivity
• Is the glass half full or half empty?
• Up and Running
• Up and running

• Information Technology
• This is no oxymoron
• In Brief
• .NET in Supply Chain
• Early adopter says Microsoft .NET works as advertised
• Data Administration
• Grid computing spreads workloads, eases data sharing
• Enterprise Integration
• Factors that influence integration strategies
• IBM WebSphere supports short- and long-term integration
• Security
• Sprint, Cisco, Hitachi demonstrate long-distance data protection
• Service Contracts
• Pay-as-you-go, on-demand computing model could be surprisingly expensive
• The Internet Age
• Two-factor authentication makes C/S Group feel more secure

• Operations
• Bottoms-up performance
• In Brief
• Demand Management
• John Galt Solutions expands on forecast roots
• Industrial Automation
• GE Fanuc to lean on "lead" users
• Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions
• MESA honors KLA-Tencor, Cybex, and Corning
• Service Management
• Despite strong margins, service parts issues often overlooked
• Supply Chain Management
• Avicon touts "DNA" approach to gains

• Views From the Front
• Corporate
• RosettaNet seeks allies in China
• ERP Vendor Trends
• New entrants attack market from low end
• IT Priorities
• Study points to "IT governance" best practice
• Information Technology
• U.S. Supreme Court asked to hear patent case; company says future technology standards at stake
• Lean Manufacturing
• LEA may constitute $1.9-billion market
• Does "lean enterprise automation" have legs?
• Operations
• MESA event proves out wider scope
• Rules and Regulations
• Small- and mid-size companies feel Sarbanes-Oxley pinch
• Supervisory Control
• CTO Vaughn says USDATA paid for mistakes, but likes the hand he's holding