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November 21, 2009

Preventive Care = Lower Cost or Better Value?

Effective Preventive Care Crucial : NPR Lean thinkers, especially in manufacturing, know about TPM, aka Total Productive Maintenance. It becomes intuitive to a lean thinker that taking care of machines and equipment saves money in the long run. TPM leads to higher uptime and lower costs. Think of your car… if you take care of it properly, it should cost less to maintain in the long term (un ... More

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"Get Lean and Prosper" features news, commentary, case studies, and instructions on Lean manufacturing methodologies and Lean transformation.

November 20, 2009

Georgia Tech takes on multidisciplinary hurdles in Green IT

A new initiative from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is taking on the multidisciplinary challenges involved in creating and running energy efficient data centers. The effort–dubbed Green IT–considers power consumption across the entire “energy stack,” ranging from the power consumed by multi-core platforms, to the board and rack levels, to the entire ... More

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Expert insight on the latest GREEN trends, products and news from the professionals within the manufacturing industry.

November 18, 2009

Research Rap: Going Social with Product Development

A quick peek into some research on … how manufacturers are taking advantage of social computing and “Web 2.0″ technologies to raise the bar on product development performance in my new report Tech-Clarity Insight: Going Social with Product Development: Improving Product Development Performance with Social Computing. The paper discusses the intersection of social computing ... More

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An ongoing conversation about manufacturers' plans, challenges, successes, and failures in improving product profitability with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).

November 17, 2009

Food Safety – Where We Stand

Sometimes, in any business, people lose sight of the goal.  But there is always a time when we’re reminded of why we do what we do.  For me, recent in the world of food safety have reminded me why technology is so vital, because its goal is ultimately to solve business problems.  The other week, Margaret Hamburg, commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) came fo ... More

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"The Power of the Plant Floor� is an ongoing blog about various challenges and opportunities for food and CPG manufacturers are facing on the plant floor and how they can overcome real-life issues and better improve plant floor operations and productivity to benefit the overall business using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).

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