Manufacturing Business Technology - March 1, 2006

Inside the gleaming glass headquarters of Callaway Golf in Carlsbad, Calif., product developers are hard at work coming up with the next great golf club. However, much of what Callaway does to launch clubs such as its Big Bertha Fusion FT-3 driver spans multiple locations, some of them external to the company, says Steve Ehlers, Callaway's VP of product design and development.

• Applications and Services
• In brief
• 21st century logistics
• Case-In-Point
• Instron links quality and service issues via Agile PLM
• Jewelry supplier sparkles at inventory management
• ERP Strategy
• Is single-vendor versus best-of-breed a dead issue?
• Manufacturing Execution Systems
• Siemens enlists partners to bolster MES sales
• Midrange ERP
• Buying Datastream's EAM gives Infor a solution for midmarket enterprises

• Business Performance
• Global execution
• Ask AberdeenGroup
• How are leading manufacturers addressing quality issues?
• CRM/E-commerce Intersect
• Midsize manufacturers reengage with online sales; benefit from customer context
• Case-In-Point
• ERP and BizTalk integration leads to high-level customer service for Q•Media
• Fabric maker learns forecasting, operational metrics
• Engineering Best Practices
• Process control and PLM in the limelight at daratechPLANT2006 conference
• Offshoring Strategies
• Partnering seen as key to any China operations launch

• Columnists
• Back Talk
• SOA and all that jazz
• Up Front
• The revolutionary impact of plant-floor computerization

• Integration and Infrastructure
• Spend wisely
• In brief
• Autonomic Computing
• Vendors say all companies can have systems that manage themselves
• Compliance Solutions
• New Web site serves up RFID tags to small businesses, on demand
• Control-Layer Security
• ISA working on standards for securing plant-floor networks
• Database Update
• Application developers like the new SQL Server; users yet to weigh in
• Internet Infrastructure
• VoIP goes beyond economical phone calls to enable supply chain communication
• Pharma Security
• Pfizer deploys multiple-level RFID tagging to combat drug counterfeits
• Service-Oriented Architecture
• Large vendors throwing weight behind SOA standards

• Special Report
• The Bigger Picture: Human Capital Management
• How we work now

• Views From the Front
• In brief
• Recent reports from "the zone"
• Apps Protection
• Industry group tackles metrics for ROI on security solutions
• Corporate
• Unsettling signs for U.S. manufacturers
• Cyber Security
• Advocacy group faults federal government for lack of fraud prevention
• Enterprise Apps Access
• First Microsoft/SAP joint product released to early users
• Information Technology
• Cisco promoting "intelligent" IT networks
• Innovation as Strategy
• Report shows threshold of skilled worker lags advance of technology
• National Manufacturing Week
• Reed Exhibitions targets design-to-manufacturing process at annual Chicago area show
• Operations
• Field-service/back-office link calls for mobile solutions
• Workforce Mobility
• Remote revolution puts strain on strapped IT resources