Manufacturing Business Technology 03/01/2005 Table of Contents

Manufacturing Business Technology - March 01, 2005

Cover Story

Reality meets radio-frequency identification
Like most every executive involved in logistics management, Brian Beattie knows the theoretical advantages of radio-frequency identification, or RFID. But unlike many of his peers, Beattie's company is live with a program that leverages RFID tagging to track assets and shipments in supply chains.

Applications and Services

Plant-floor security, by the numbers

Case-In-Point

Johnson Controls levels schedules in a lean manufacturing environment

Finite Capacity Scheduling

Demand-driven model keeps best-of-breed vendors in the black

Product Life-Cycle Management

Next on the horizon: the bill of process

To-Order Manufacturing

Instrument maker follows the rules to ease complex configurations

Business Performance

Stop saying, "That's what I should've done"
Ask AberdeenGroup
Business performance in brief

Case-In-Point

Contract manufacturer turns to PLM supplier for data cleansing solution

Enterprise Performance Management

Intentia aligns with Cognos to bring BI to the midmarket

Platform Integration

Crystal Reports now a full part of the Business Objects family

Support For Innovation

Think outside the box using tools in a box

Columnists

Back Talk

Why there's no need to fear China

Up Front

A bridge from personal productivity to the enterprise

Integration and Infrastructure

An open question
Integration and Infrastructure in brief

Collaborative Supply-Chains

Technology, data, relationships underpin successful partner/customer strategies

Document Management

Adobe almost embraces Linux

Enterprise Networks

Acquisition gives Cisco upper hand in both wired and wireless networking

Grid Computing

Sun wants users to see grid technology as a business tool

Security/Wireless

Bar codes: not dead yet
In brief

Partners for Progress

Zebra, SAP, and Wavelink simplify secure wireless system management

Plant-Floor Wireless

ZigBee standard could be automation future force

RFID Rollout

METRO Group DC achieves 99-percent tag-read rate using Intermec solutions

RFID Tools

A&D giant leverages DoD experience in a developer's kit

Security Hardware

IBM first in line for trusted I/O device

Views From the Front

In brief

Big Three Auto

U.S.A-TEAM looks first at the plant floor in collaboration with NIST

Connecting With Lean

QAD seeks gain from Oracle's technology focus

Corporate

Companies understand the value—and cost—of good employees

Global Dominance

China and India push to compete with divergent approaches

Information Technology

Be it Linux or UNIX, IBM says, "Just buy our servers"

Manufacturing and Politics

NAM wrestling with members' divergent views on global trade

Market Consolidation

Infor buys MAPICS; SAP acquires TomorrowNow

Mergers and Acquisitions

Will the falling dollar make American software vendors targets?

Operations

China up; Japan up; OEMs down

Plant-Floor Integration

ABB upgrades 800xA framework using IBM WebSphere

Software and CPU Capacity

Hardware advances have potential to raise software license costs

Trade Management

Financial firm ventures into logistics with Vastera acquisition

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