Manufacturing Business Technology - August 1, 2005
Cover Story
Work as one
When it comes down to which information technology (IT) projects get a green light, and which ones get delayed, Rob Porterfield is used to dealing with some tradeoffs. Porterfield—VP of manufacturing with National Instruments—adds that some of the tradeoffs involve putting projects for other departments or cross-functional core initiatives ahead of manufacturing-speci...
- Applications and Services
- An implementation and upgrade checklist
- Case-In-Point
- Moline Bearing opts for open-source ERP—on a Mac
- Collaborative Supply Chains
- New shipping realities sharpen focus on transportation management
- Plant-Floor Systems
- MES market blows through $1-billion barrier
- Product and Process Ideation
- Low-cost innovation management tool is suited for the masses
- Business Performance
- Regulatory compliance is a good business practice
- Ask AberdeenGroup
- Where do companies apply S&OP?
- Best Practices
- Industry models for enterprise, supply chain quicken start-ups, if no wheels are reinvented
- Case-In-Point
- Smarter product development process depends on demand insight, sound infrastructure
- Product Development
- Vendors combine to help manufacturers identify products customers actually need
- Columnists
- Integration and Infrastructure
- Yours, mine, and ours
- Data Centers
- Automatic failover, back-up sites, outsourcing among the strategies for ensuring data availability
- IT Portfolio Management
- Corporate culture issues cited as No. 1 impediment to effective project, portfolio management
- Intelligent Devices
- Cisco unveils application-aware smart network
- Plant IT Infrasctructures
- Rockwell strengthens links with IBM WebSphere
- Security/Wireless
- The networking of two
- In Brief
- Case-In-Point
- Metalworker finds "easy" way to data collection benefits
- Customs Clearance
- WCO adopts framework to secure and speed global trade
- RFID Alternatives
- Auto-ID system reads hundreds of bar codes simultaneously
- Sarbanes-Oxley
- Financial compliance measures cause some companies to look again at lax systems access
- Views From The Front
- In brief
- MES delivered as subscription gives smaller guys options
- Application Management
- Outsourced services provider says "Oracle economy" improving
- Assessments in Auto-ID
- EPCGlobal members, U.S. educators calculating the ROI of RFID
- Corporate
- Two-tier approach to enterprise connectivity debuts
- Designed to Prosper
- Coherent message, sufficient mass contribute to PLM vendor UGS' market grip
- Information Technology
- The promise of a better Internet
- Interoperability and Standards
- MESA and WBF to release collaborative services
- Lean Manufacturing
- Industry groups say lean practitioner program will be most rigorous effort of its kind
- Leveraging Linux
- Dell invests in Red Hat
- Lunar Logistics
- Supply chain management and material transport study goes interplanetary
- Operations
- ARC kicks support for interoperability standards up a notch
- Outsourcing
- Get what you pay for: service-level agreements work
- Pricing Initiatives
- Yankee Group cites PMPO a best-kept secret in the enterprise
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