Manufacturing Business Technology

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Articles in February, 2007 issue of Manufacturing Business Technology

• Trends drive risk-management awareness.
• Intuit alliance with Google offers small businesses online opportunities.
• SAP introduces the non-upgrade.
• Meeting compliance mandates requires a good look at the shop floor.
• In brief.
• RFID pilot takes pharma data out into the supply chain.
• Infor introduces cross-platform Web service.
• Managing for uncertainty is key to open the best laid plans.
• Mandates, supply chain security, anticounterfeiting to drive item-level tagging in 2007.
• Trade platform cuts the paper-based tasks of financial processes down to size.
• EquaTerra partnership with Microsoft brings visibility, governance to business process outsourcing endeavors.
• Complexity, variability place tough demands on integrated global sourcing.
• Automation vendors team up with US-CERT.
• Sun retools back-up and recovery process.
• Testing can save millions in tracking assets.
• Exports show marked improvement in 2006, but growth expected to slow.
• Study finally shows takeoff in wireless data applications market.
• Survey: Manufacturers need help with workforce management.
• Portal offers performance metrics.
• Reality trumps perfection.
• Encryption key to endpoint data protection.
• Power equipment maker benefits from plant-floor wireless network.
• Closing in on world-class.
• The overgeneralization is over.(Company overview)
• Top talent gains greater control of its destiny; more career opportunities.
• Supply chain talent battle brews in China as manufacturers push out new "people programs".
• QUALCOMM buys nPhase.
• VoIP enhances product development.
• Companies chase success in after-sales services.
• In brief.
• Unlock your design intent.
• Optimizing process performance is all in the math.
• Manufacturers face choices in initiating multiplant planning.
• It doesn't mean a thing if it isn't integrated.
• East coast swing 2007.
• Cognizant serves up mainframe-to-Windows migration to foods supplier Schwan.
• Singapore development board credits prosperous island nation transformation to manufacturing.
• Engineers search for better response times to requests for information.
• What you need to know about the top 2007 IT challenges.
• A shared vision.
• Toward mobile problem-solving.
• "The system is down" seen as greatest threat to supply chain.
• Delivery time remains big question for shipping; lack of dockside visibility deplored.