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The Wonderware Strategic Integration Group (WSIG) has been awarded a $1.5-million contract by Aventis Pasteur, the vaccine business of Aventis, as part of the $77.5-million expansion of Aventis' Swiftwater, Pa.-based formulation and filling plant. Supplied and configured user interfaces will automate batch processing with data-entry screens, a real-time database and visualization layer, and batch production execution and reporting systems.

Adonix has contracts with East Coast Olive Oil, Utica, N.Y.; and The Broaster Company, Beloit, Wis., to implement the Adonix X3 enterprise suite, a Web-enabled system for the midmarket, which integrates automated data collection, e-business, and workflow management with a business application that extends to manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, CRM, and accounting.

Air conditioning manufacturer Trane will use Cincom's CONTROL:2003 enterprise system in Trane's Taicang, China-based manufacturing facility, which makes large commercial chillers for worldwide distribution. CONTROL is a portfolio of Web-driven solutions that address the complete business cycle, through aftermarket support.

Click Commerce says it has enabled Samsung Electronics America's Irvine, Calif.-based Digital Information Technology Division to achieve 30-percent annual growth rate in commercial sales using a Click Commerce-based portal offering key catalog information and tools regarding promotions, campaigns, and special pricing to more than 13,000 indirect resellers, distributors, and field sales reps. Samsung also has decreased overhead and marketing spending by 25 percent.

Semiconductor solutions supplier Zarlink is using Cognos' Enterprise BI Series to give its global employees a single view of the organization's corporate performance via graphical scorecards. The Cognos system is used in conjunction with Zarlink's SAP systems. "With Cognos scorecarding, we create tailor-made information and push it out to stakeholders with a minimum of IT intervention," says Bill O'Connor, CIO of Zarlink.

CMS Manufacturing Systems will set up ERP at Thetford/Norcold, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based manufacturer of refrigeration and sanitation products for the recreational vehicle and marine markets that is using the Toyota Production System. Under the agreement, CMS will create a new electronic version of the paper kanban cards currently in use at the company, and make the e-kanban capability a standard capability with its core CMS/400 ERP offering.

Doormark Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., has selected Friedman's Frontier enterprise solution to gain efficiencies in order entry and order status with the added capacity of a multiple user environment. Orders can be processed through the integrated configurator to CNC routers on the production floor. Additionally, Doormark will broaden its online ordering system and roll out Frontier's PowerBids application to optimize the order fulfillment cycle.

Watlow, a St. Louis-based maker of thermal components, will use AssurX's CATSWeb quality tracking software at seven plants in 2004. CATSWeb is a zero-client application that can be accessed from any computer, running any operating system. Says Watlow's Quality Process Leader, Drew A. Dubray, "We needed to consolidate all information into a centralized, Web-based system that would provide better visibility."

Daktronics, Brookings, S.D., has migrated to Glovia's extended ERP solution, glovia.com. Daktronics, which makes electronic scoreboards and display systems, can plan and execute aggressive engineer- and make-to-order customer response times and schedule projects and track costs through full integration of engineering items, inventory, customer orders, and accounting—from original order through service.

HMS Software has received orders totaling $1.8 million for software and services from General Dynamics Land Systems, Falls Church, Va., for process planning and shop-floor information management. HMS-CAPP for computer-aided process planning, HMS-Shop Floor Management and HMS-Manufacturing Change Management will replace legacy systems in Ohio, Michigan, Florida, and Alabama.

Miller-St. Nazianz, an agricultural equipment manufacturer based in St. Nazianz, Wis., will use IFS' product data management (PDM) integrated with the IFS Applications enterprise suite deployed in 2002. Says T. J. Hendrikse, leader for the PDM implementation at Miller-St. Nazianz, "The software will allow us to better control the bill of material [BOM] and better track changes to it. Engineering will have its own 'engineering BOM' so they can change things around and see the effects of costing before they actually make the change in the manufacturing BOM."