Manufacturing Industry
IT: manufacturers' new best friend.(industrial equipment manufacturers and information technology)(Brief article)
Industry Week, May, 2007 by Kenney, Brad
THE SMOKESTACKS AND blast furnaces that are the guts of industrial products manufacturing have stoked the popular imagination for more than a century. However, in this period of global expansion, infrastructure growth and stretched supply chains, many leaders of these "heavy metal" companies are finding new power and productivity from a much newer player on the scene-high-performance IT systems. According to a recent Accenture study of industrial products executives, more than three in four survey respondents report
that IT solutions have optimized their supply chains, and nearly half report making IT investments to enhance advanced engineering and collaborative product development. Also growing is the use of marketing analytics to boost product portfolio...
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