Manufacturing Business Technology - May 1, 2007
Cover Story
Tough decision at Freudenberg-NOK leads to enterprise system that fits the bill
It was, says George Molchan, CIO at Plymouth, Mich.-based automotive manufacturer Freudenberg-NOK General Partnership, “a pretty tough sell.” Evidently not given to overstatement, Molchan is referring to management's reluctant acquiescence to his plan to scrap an enterprise system recently implemented at the company's Corteco aftermarket division, and replace it with a system from ...
- Applications and Services
- Integrating design and manufacturing systems breeds continuous improvement
- Case-In-Point
- Leiner handles healthy growthwith Pilgrim Software compliance suite
- Data Connectivity
- Sterling Commerce opens the door to EDI, customer satisfaction at Therma-Tru
- Distribution Management
- Execution platform bridges gap between enterprise system, warehouse control devices
- Information Management
- Data migration tool eases transfer path from Excel to SAP
- Intellectual Property
- Secure 3D data sharing deliversclear market advantage for Peerless Group
- Midmarket ERP
- Industrial goods maker takes ERP SaaS plunge
- Product Collaboration
- Right Hemisphere moves 3D design dataoutside the engineering department
- Product Innovation
- Active mock-up and direct-face editing among new features in UGS NX CAD release
- Supply Chain Roundup
- Survey offers insight to outsourced DC operations
- Global e-pedigree standard ratified
- Financial-based partnerships, extended warehousing strategies lead to supply chain optimization
- Business Performance
- Overall equipment effectiveness: an old metric offers new ways of boosting performance
- Integrated Planning
- S&OP and Lean are mutuallybeneficial partners in best-practices game
- Midmarket ERP
- Power lift: Tectura grabs “Hercules” size funding of $22M
- In brief
- Tectura and Microsoft Dynamics enable hot progress in a cold business
- Rapid Response Manufacturing
- New R&D arm specs out “one-stop infrastructure” for 30-day design & production cycle
- Streamlined Development
- Open PLM solution ties manufacturing, quality, customer information back to product record, audit trail
- Columnists
- Integration and Infrastructure
- Global technology suppliers take their seats on the enterprise service bus
- TAGSYS guarantees RFID Six Sigma reads in pharma
- RFID market segment growth expected to vary
- Anticipating the hockey stick
- IBM projects underscore possible RFID depth, reach
- Intermec RFID-enabled warehouse functionality on a "quiet rise"
- Solutions combo puts new spin on RFID data
- Case-In-Point
- Columbia Sportswear maintains its message while on the move using Microsoft Exchange Server
- Emergency Management
- Notification system software enables preplanned responses to events
- Systems Management
- Oracle seeks higher-level view with top-down approach to Enterprise Manager
- Special Report
- Views From the Front
- Communication Devices
- Industrial-strength video and audio supports troubleshooting by faraway experts
- Corporate
- Compensation value is underestimated
- Counterfeit Goods
- Fake goods hamper manufacturing market health; call for criminalization imminent
- Information Technology
- Software AG edges closer to $1.3B vendor
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Making those expected synergies work rests squarely on supply chain managers
- Operations
- Infor extends HCM with Workbrain buy
- Performance Management
- Enterprise manufacturing intelligence data used to uncover performance of top food companies
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- SOA-enablement strategy differentiates Infor from pack leaders Oracle, SAP
- Supplier Search
- Autodesk partnership with GlobalSpec extends component search to design teams
- Vertical Solutions
- IBM launches automotive Jam consulting service to drive new forms of collaboration
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