Manufacturing Business Technology - June 1, 2005

Getting closer to customers often starts with being able to quickly configure custom products for them. But what if you aren't configuring from a preset mix of common components? What if your solutions must fit the unique process engineering and facility layout specifications of each customer site? In the past, such engineered solutions required lengthy bid-generation processes ...

• Applications and Services
• All the right views
• Apps in brief
• Case-In-Point
• Decision support smoothes semiconductor test division's outsourced model
• Digital Manufacturing
• UGS and Tecnomatix: a marriage of depth and breadth—with reach
• Scan-Based Trading
• Electronic commerce comes to the checkout counter
• Supervisory Control
• SCADA users seeking tighter integration with business processes
• Supply Chain Networks
• Collaborative hub gets a tune-up with cross-industry enhancements

• Business Performance
• Think lean for the long term
• Ask Aberdeen Group
• How can a midsize manufacturer streamline its order-to-delivery process?
• Data Management
• The right BI tool can lower ERP license fees
• Electronic Data Interchange
• Honda sets a higher standard for EDI compliance
• Global Trade Management
• Plenty of rebate dollars going unclaimed from free trade agreements

• Columnists
• Back Talk
• As a business strategy, innovation trumps globalization
• Up Front
• Purity of heart is to will one thing

• Integration and Infrastructure
• IT gets some smarts
• Business Process Modeling
• The "informal" link between IDS Scheer's ARIS and Microsoft BizTalk
• Case-In-Point
• IBM iSeries and partner software give Mississippi Sportswear a competitive edge
• Collaborative Coalition
• Microsoft and PLM vendors team up on collaborative blueprints
• E-Commerce Standards
• Don't let confusion over competing standards derail your e-business strategy
• Enterprise Computing
• Don't retire those mainframes yet
• Master Data Management
• IBM integrates Trigo's PIM with WebSphere
• Operating Systems
• Linux variants are no sweat
• Storage Management
• Security planning should include storage systems

• Security/Wireless
• Wireless in brief
• Start expecting the unexpected
• E-Mail Authentication
• Can we really "can" spam?
• Internet Telephony
• Alliance members address security for companies using VoIP
• Masters of Disaster
• Making the best of a bad situation is business-as-usual for 3PL
• Tamper-Evident Technology
• GE develops secure shipping container solution
• The Audit Trail
• New use for RFID: settling product delivery disputes

• Views From the Front
• Leadership awards surface in software development
• CEOs say users steer software products in unexpected directions
• Corporate
• PLM is a plot perpetrated by the marketing department
• Expansion Plans
• Deloitte/NAM study reveals domestic and international intentions of U.S. manufacturing companies
• Gartner Summit
• Repositories viewed as security link for Web services
• Information Technology
• Cracking the code on IBM's latest acquisition
• Localized Outsourcing
• Rural states suggest looking close to home rather than offshoring
• Networking Advances
• Intuit releases solution for "health-conscious" IT network managers, engineers
• Operations
• Intermec simplifies RFID licensing for OEMs
• Regulatory Compliance
• New alliance attempts cross-industry framework for electronic information compliance
• Shingo Prize
• Lean thinkers lauded in U.S. manufacturing industry
• Software 2005 Conference
• Observations on offshore software development: it's boom time... for some
• Tech Budgets
• Manufacturers fall near bottom of IT spending ranks
• U.S. Outlook
• Sundown on Golden State manufacturing: jobs at risk?