Manufacturing Business Technology - May 1, 2004

Manufacturing is the machine that powered America's global economic leadership over the past century. Manufacturing has been a source of shareholder value and job creation—not to mention the starting point for enduring corporate legacies. Yet a tough economy and a perceived threat of overseas competition has caused great concern for U.

• Columnists
• Up Front
• How manufacturing systems will evolve

• Corporate Project
• High-stakes definitions
• Annals of Lean
• GM spreads the wealth
• Case-In-Point
• Dayton Progress delivers powerful punch with interactive configurator
• Education and IT Competitiveness
• Industry big shots tell U.S.: high-tech manufacturing at risk
• Emerging Software Markets
• Equipment efficiency solution combines software, hardware, and services
• In Brief
• In Brief
• Innovative Workspace
• "Cubicle sweet cubicle" bested by "open sight" design
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Patent infringement suits not likely to stifle innovation
• Project Management
• SAP teams with PM Solutions in agreement aimed at EPM

• Departments
• Hot Bytes
• Awards in the presence of greatness
• Metrics That Matter
• Overall Equipment Efficiency
• Solutions Spotlight
• Solutions Spotlight
• Up and Running
• Up and running

• Information Technology
• The Big Three: market powers, distinctly different
• Case-In-Point
• Mold-Masters avoids SAP integration nightmare through the power of expertise
• Data Storage
• Storage market leader EMC finds strategy with Dell
• Data Synchronization
• One small acquisition could have a big impact on the industry
• Disaster Recovery
• Guarding your IT infrastructure is a planning matter
• Grid Computing
• Moving from ivory tower to business frontline, slowly
• In Brief
• In Brief
• In Brief
• Operating Platforms
• Satisfied customers stick with maintenance vendor
• Wireless Networks
• Reliability and security depend more on corporate policies than technology

• Operations
• Let the process rule
• Case-In-Point
• Paper-based scheduling perishable with uncommon labor exceptions
• In-house manufacturing raises margins; exposes "missing IT"
• E-Sourcing
• Vendors sort out e-sourcing/supplier management issues
• Enterprise Value
• Forecasting, data collection valued as ERP add-ons
• Factory Planning
• Start-up sees spreadsheet-to-APS gap in consumer goods
• RFID Readiness
• Insiders urge pragmatic approach
• Supply Chain Execution
• WMS, data collection markets get boost from below
• Supply Chain World 2004
• Scuttlebut from the show floor
• Technology Basics
• Analyst sees RFID as complementary to bar coding

• Views From the Front
• Business Intelligence
• SAS hoping manufacturers will buy preconfigured, vertical solutions
• Corporate
• Web self-service and search technologies combine
• IFS World Conference 2004
• NEC partnership one pillar in IFS plans
• Industry Organizations
• MESA bets new category will attract more end users to its ranks
• Information Technology
• When Novell makes a big Linux announcement, does Microsoft hear it?
• Microsoft Convergence
• ISV model for midmarket apps unfolds
• Open Source Software
• The profit motive behind free software
• Operations
• PTC gains electronics design with CAD vendor buy