Manufacturing Industry
Next on the horizon: the bill of process.(Product Life-Cycle Management)
Manufacturing Business Technology, March, 2005 by Michel, Roberto
Some call it digital manufacturing; others call it manufacturing process management (MPM). Whatever the label, it's a software niche getting more attention given UGS's January deal to buy MPM vendor Tecnomatix Technologies. UGS--known for its product life-cycle management (PLM) software--sees MPM as an important leg of a PLM strategy.
But what exactly is MPM, who uses it, and what can it do for an enterprise? Marc Halpern, a research director with Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner, defines MPM as "planning and enabling the timely manufacture of products at the lowest cost and quality needed to achieve profit and business growth." MPM software covers two functions: 1) to manage data for complex processes, including assembly steps and tasks like welding or...
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