Manufacturing Business Technology

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Articles in May 2007 issue of Manufacturing Business Technology

• Autodesk partnership with GlobalSpec extends component search to design teams.
• Rise in global enterprise deployments seen as response to far-flung supply networks.(Company overview)
• Data migration tool eases transfer path from Excel to SAP.
• IBM projects underscore possible RFID depth, reach.
• SOA-enablement strategy differentiates Infor from pack leaders Oracle, SAP.
• Tough decision at Freudenberg-NOK leads to enterprise system that fits the bill.
• Right Hemisphere moves 3D design dataoutside the engineering department.
• Intermec RFID-enabled warehouse functionality on a "quiet rise".
• Making those expected synergies work rests squarely on supply chain managers.
• ERP and SOA at The Coca Cola Company.
• New R&D arm specs out 'one-stop infrastructure' for 30-day design & production cycle.
• Industrial goods maker takes ERP SaaS plunge.
• RFID market segment growth expected to vary.
• Industrial-strength video and audio supports troubleshooting by faraway experts.
• Anticipating the hockey stick.
• S&OP and Lean are mutuallybeneficial partners in best-practices game.
• Execution platform bridges gap between enterprise system, warehouse control devices.
• Survey offers insight to outsourced DC operations.
• Fake goods hamper manufacturing market health; call for criminalization imminent.
• TAGSYS guarantees RFID Six Sigma reads in pharma.
• Open PLM solution ties manufacturing, quality, customer information back to product record, audit trail.
• Secure 3D data sharing deliversclear market advantage for Peerless Group.
• Global e-pedigree standard ratified.
• IBM launches automotive Jam consulting service to drive new forms of collaboration.
• Oracle seeks higher-level view with top-down approach to Enterprise Manager.
• In brief.
• Sterling Commerce opens the door to EDI, customer satisfaction at Therma-Tru.
• Financial-based partnerships, extended warehousing strategies lead to supply chain optimization.
• Enterprise manufacturing intelligence data used to uncover performance of top food companies.
• Notification system software enables preplanned responses to events.
• Power lift: Tectura grabs 'Hercules' size funding of $22M.
• Leiner handles healthy growthwith Pilgrim Software compliance suite.
• Software AG edges closer to $1.3B vendor.
• Columbia Sportswear maintains its message while on the move using Microsoft Exchange Server.
• Tectura and Microsoft Dynamics enable hot progress in a cold business.
• Active mock-up and direct-face editing among new features in UGS NX CAD release.
• Infor extends HCM with Workbrain buy.
• Global technology suppliers take their seats on the enterprise service bus.
• Overall equipment effectiveness: an old metric offers new ways of boosting performance.
• Integrating design and manufacturing systems breeds continuous improvement.
• Compensation value is underestimated.
• Global ERP advances set stage for manufacturing operations orchestration.
• A winning global strategy: relax, but don't sit still.
• Solutions combo puts new spin on RFID data.