Manufacturing Business Technology - September 1, 2006
Cover Story
A winning strategy
Before selecting Lockheed Martin to manage the largest military aircraft program in U.S. history, the Department of Defense wanted to put penalty clauses in the agreement because the Fort Worth, Texas-based contractor planned to work with other companies on the aircraft's design. "We were able to convince them that having design partners would not negatively impact the program," ...
- Applications and Services
- Wireless finds its way to the wrist
- PLM keeps manufacturer on right sideof the law
- Case-In-Point
- Production scheduling system leads steelmakerto $70-million revenue gain
- Field-Service Management
- Microsoft and Astea integrate ERPand service-management suites
- Industrial Controls
- ABB using machine-to-machine sensortechnology to corral robots
- Product Intelligence
- Search technology supports self-service on Delphi plant floor
- Production Metrics
- Manufacturing intelligence vendor tapslean components to ease production bottlenecks
- Supply Chain Roundup
- UPS continues hub expansions
- Market growth moves away from planning segment
- Container security gettingmore than standard attention
- Business Performance
- More than $10 billion saved
- Public key infrastructure technology simplifies identity management
- Case-In-Point
- Integrated business planning tightenssupply chain for wireless supplier
- Cleaning products maker sweeps up new sales using Web-based business intelligence
- Data Analysis
- Historians now boosting performance in real time
- Export Regulation
- Exostar gathers A&D players to develop compliance best practices
- Global Trade Solutions
- SAP enhances trade services suiteout of new GRC business unit
- Columnists
- Integration and Infrastructure
- In brief
- When ERP isn't enough
- Case-In-Point
- Offshore DCS development takes on local feelfor Hercules Chemical
- Composite Applications
- IBM centralizes SOA solutions in one online catalog
- Enterprise Search
- Google, Microsoft on collision course,but users could benefit
- RFID Roundup
- Value models and informed legislation lookto grow technology adoption rate
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- VP Buildings fabricates better inventorymanagement with SOA
- Wireless Architecture
- Symbol foresees a single management infrastructure
- Views From the Front
- Corporate
- Survey says employees feel obligated 24/7
- Global Economies
- Boston Consulting report identifies emerging masters of competition
- Globalization
- Survey data portrays a risk-adverse,tech-savvy SMB market
- Growth Technologies
- Harvard study maps IT investment to enterprise growth
- In Brief
- Security breaches on the rise at all organizational levels
- Mainframes have solid future, but not without pain points
- Information Technology
- Translating IT's business impactis a four-step process
- Manufacturing Execution Systems
- Oracle quietly evolves execution system to match complex manufacturing scenarios
- Midmarket ERP
- Infor acquires financial software vendors Extensity, Systems Union
- Operations
- Manufacturers exposed to RoHS risk
- Software and Services
- IBM to fold MRO Software into Tivoli
- Subsidies and Funding
- Tax credit program offers welcome optionto expanding manufacturers
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