Manufacturing Business Technology - February 1, 2004

Global competition circles back to one thing for U.S. manufacturers today: the rise of China. We are witnessing an industrial transformation in Asia, led by China (on both sides of the Formosa Straits), which will realign economic power globally. This transfer of work will enable millions to raise their standard of living, and will do much to align the world's most populous nation with the int...

• Columnists
• Up Front
• Manufacturing's future merits public awareness

• Corporate Project
• Best of breed fights for survival
• Business Process Management
• Composite apps simplify business processes at Tesoro Petroleum
• The U.S. Market
• NAM/Emerson study quantifies disadvantages plaguing U.S. manufacturing
• Theory of Constraints
• Forget set-up times and focus on throughput
• Trade Agreements
• Free trade extended to Central America

• Departments
• Hot Bytes
• You can't know the players without a scorecard
• Metrics That Matter
• Total Supply Chain Cost
• Solutions Spotlight
• Solutions Spotlight
• The Politics of Productivity
• The Politics of Productivity
• Up and Running
• Up and running

• Information Technology
• The price of Internet EDI
• Application Strategies
• Packaged software is the popular choice, not necessarily the right one
• Case-in-Point
• Tektronix finds unique method to beat Internet traffic jams
• E-Business Standards
• Don't gamble with your choice of standards
• Electronic Commerce
• Quickparts.com builds the right model for an e-business
• In Brief
• In Brief
• Optimization Engines
• ILOG now selling plug-ins to extend the power of supply chain applications
• PLM Technology
• UGS says new solution will broaden the product design community

• Operations
• The bullwhip lives
• Enterprise Software
• Vendors enter Microsoft Business Solutions "ecosystem"
• In Brief
• In Brief
• Logistics Management
• Descartes poised to turn vision into reality
• Operational Excellence
• Tight times elevate Six Sigma ends over means
• Plant Information Management
• ABB expands integration push with 800xA
• Supply Chain Interoperability
• AIAG makes progress with IV&I project
• Supply Chain Management
• Planning vendors renew efforts at vertical approach

• Views From the Front
• Business Intelligence
• Business Objects says integration with Crystal Decisions to follow road less traveled
• Government Initiatives
• Commerce Department official lambastes U.S. lack of manufacturing vision
• IT Industry Productivity
• U.S. leads world in IT exports and imports, comprehensive study shows
• Information Technology
• SAP unveils first RFID-based supply chain package
• Operations
• HighJump CEO: no blind leap in 3M deal
• Partnerships
• CMS Manufacturing joins IBM's ISV Advantage initiative
• Plant Information Management
• ABB fires salvo in architecture war
• Product Life-Cycle Management
• Datasweep stresses operations tie to WEEE regulations
• Production Management
• Mad Cow heightens lot tracking, but is ERP up to snuff?
• Vertical Industry Requirements
• ERP vendors ride medical device surge
• Web Services
• It's shop floor, then top floor, for growth of Web services