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Articles in September, 2004 issue of MSI

• Device management app gives users remote control.(Solutions spotlight: this month: handhelds)
• Flexibility may trump security fears.(PLM Application Hosting)
• Brooks sees lean, TPM as MES opportunities.(Not Just Semiconductor)
• Owen Corning has selected the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite from Ascential Software Corp. as part of a multimillion dollar data-warehousing project aimed at capturing needed information for suppliers of building materials and composites systems.(
• Process discipline is the recommended cure for inferior data.(Bad Data)
• ARC Advisory Group.
• Washington responds.(Views from the front)
• New family of USB devices require plug-and-play setup.(Solutions spotlight: this month: handhelds)
• World Wide Web inventor wins millennium prize.
• The "other" use of RFID: AM General uses the technology to support lean, quality efforts on plant floor.(Information techonology: innovation & insights)
  by Hill, Sidney, Jr.
• Components purchasing meets risk management.(Procurement Strategies)
• ABB executive appointed to U.S.-International Business Councils.
• Analytics help Briggs & Stratton anticipate customer needs.(Get At The Big Picture)
• Feds look to greater use of enterprise systems.(Operations)
• Mobility suite extends control of devices, wireless networks.(Solutions spotlight: this month: handhelds)
• Three IT outsourcing models, none complete.(Look Before Learning)
• To drive sustainable quality improvement, lean embraces Six Sigma.(The Six Sigma-Lean Connection)
  by Michel, Roberto
• Scorecards, dashboards are two different things: business intelligence--once purely the province of power users--has gone mainstream.(Operations: opportunities & constraints)
  by Wheatley, Malcolm
• Customer collaboration without fear.(Living The Paradox)
• The many faces of corporate governance.(Who Do You Trust)
• Electronic newsletter focuses on where lean and IT come together.(MSI Online)
• Tablet, touch-panel computer enhance visualization, control.(Solutions spotlight: this month: handhelds)
• UGS wins contracts from automotive suppliers.
• Vendors address line design, visual instructions for lean.(Beyond Lean)
• San Francisco-based Actuate Corp. says its enterprise reporting application platform now fully supports the Linux operating system.(Business intelligence bits)
• Chrysler Group most improved automaker.(Automotive Report)
• Companies expand in more ways than one.(Hot bytes)
• Oracle acquires Collaxa, jumping on bandwagon.(Service-Oriented Architecture)
• Pocket PC application provides visibility, control to delivery.(Solutions spotlight: this month: handhelds)
• Are the right people maintaining your Web site?(Content Management)
• PeopleSoft injects JCIT-based lean into EnterpriseOne.(Decompose And Reconstruct)
• SAS.(Business intelligence bits)
• The fascinating Far East.(The Politics Of Productivity)
• From the industry analysts' desktops.
• Senators get competitiveness primer from software execs.(Prevailing On Washington)
• Going where large mobile printers dare not go.(Solutions spotlight: this month: handhelds)
• Mobile maintenance gets boost from new architectures.(Only A Click Away)
• Supply chain excellence means superior financial performance.(In perspective)
  by Caruso, Dave
• But we love Google!(Content-Specific Search Engines)
• Concerns voiced over China textile threat.(Globalization Hurts)
• What's behind that 'single face'? Hewlett-Packard integrates to balance flexibility and efficiency in customer interaction.
  by Michel, Roberto
• Outsourcing isn't just for Fortune 1000.(Corporate)
• Report from Semicon West: Moore still holds.(Back talk)
  by Heaton, Jim
• Industrial ID products for part-level tracking.(Solutions spotlight: this month: handhelds)
• BI tool converts into business process engine.(Business Intelligence)
• ERP vendors tout simpler, hybrid approaches.(Is Partially Lean Ok?)
• Looking for growth in all the wrong places.(In perspective)
  by Keller, Erik
• Manufacturing executives have IT confidence.(Productivity Rules)
• Up and running.(Implementations)
• Visit the MSI Technology Broadcast archives.(MSI Online)
• Data collection computer based on Windows CE.(Solutions spotlight: this month: handhelds)
• We're not going to pay a lot for this muffler.(In perspective)
  by Baer, Tony
• Flexible pricing produces quick solution for CNT, possible lesson for software vendors.(Case-In-Point)
• Lean layers leveraged: an infrastructure for IT-based lean develops, spans everything from Kanban to Six Sigma.(Lean/MES special section)
  by Michel, Roberto
• MEP restructuring proposed.(View From Washington)
• Logistics costs rise with heightened security.(Here To There)
• SAP aims at early stage product definition with composite app.(Creativity And Integration)
• The politics of productivity redux: technology-driven productivity gain is, in itself, a political issue for governments and corporations.(Up front)
  by Parker, Kevin
• Tablet-style system gives comprehensive plant view.(Solutions spotlight: this month: handhelds)
• Workforce growth tied to specific skills.(It By The Numbers)
• Remade MESA holds annual conference.(Noted Pundit Takes Center Stage)
• Toshiba America Medical Systems (TAMS) has selected the Cognos EBI Series to support a wide variety of corporate marketing initiatives.(Business intelligence bits)
• Standardizing on toolsets can reduce hard-dollar information costs.(The Price Of Intelligence)
• AMR Research.
• Correction.(Views from the front)(Correction Notice)
• Integration improves wireless M2M applications.(Solutions spotlight: this month: handhelds)
• Group completes direct memory API.
• Rexam, world's largest beverage can maker, does ROI analysis before deploying RFID.(A Proactive Approach To RFID)
• Integration, not functionality, of maintenance system matters most.(Case-In-Point)
  by Fulcher, Jim
• AGCO experiences JDE acquisition firsthand.(Merger Fallout)
• The aftermath of mergers & acquisitions: a few very big--and many rather small--enterprise vendors are still standing; which have the formula for continued success?(The corporate project in manufacturing & supply chain)
  by Keller, Erik
• New industry group hopes to reduce failed projects.(Information Technology)