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• KPIs Made Easy.(key performance indicators) 

  Frank O. Smith, Control Engineering Behind the data walls and executive dashboards, metrics increasingly link to real-time, plant-floor data....

  Control Engineering, 01/01/07 by Smith, Frank O. · More from publication

• IT-Savvy Engineers Retool Careers.(information technology) 

  Frank O. Smith, Control Engineering Contributing Editor Danger or an opportunity? The people who have undergone career alterations say it...

  Control Engineering, 11/01/06 by Smith, Frank O. · More from publication

• Worlds in Collision -- or Cooperation? 

  Frank O. Smith for Control Engineering IT and plant floor people are from different worlds, so no matter who's driving integration projects,...

  Control Engineering, 08/01/06 by Smith, Frank O. · More from publication

• Onboard the 'Unified Architecture' train.(Editorial) 

  Frank O. Smith The OPC Foundation and four of its member companies officially announced the new Unified Architecture (OPC-UA) for data and...

  Control Engineering, 08/01/06 by Smith, Frank O. · More from publication

• Enterprise integration, Part 2: building bridges to the enterprise; Leveraging plant automation data at the enterprise level is now vitally strategic. Although it's a long way from being easy, it can be, and is being done. 

  A convergence of business pressures is creating a perfect storm of circumstances set to alter the role and function of control engineering in the...

  Control Engineering, 05/01/06 by Smith, Frank O. · More from publication

• Build on a foundation: there's no IT solution for regulatory compliance, but just try doing without it.(Special Report: Regulatory Compliance) 

  Regulatory compliance adds a layer of complexity to business management, and the more global the business, the greater the burden. "There's...

  Manufacturing Business Technology, 01/01/06 by Smith, Frank O. · More from publication

• RFID, realistically speaking: Pacific Cycle, home of Schwinn, saw the Wal-Mart mandate as opportunity, not obligation; enterprise infrastructure delivers supply chain benefits. 

  Pacific Cycle, the largest bicycle supplier in North America, looked upon Wal-Mart's mandate to its top 100 suppliers to RFID-tag inbound cases...

  Manufacturing Business Technology, 10/01/05 by Smith, Frank O. · More from publication

• MES: from device to decision; Manufacturing execution systems were all the rage in the late 1990s before falling out of favor during the ERP backlash at the turn of the millennium. Now that plant floor data access is increasingly viewed as the key to bett 

  Manufacturing management increasingly is looking upon the plant floor as a source of untapped wealth. Value there lies in the rich vein of data...

  Control Engineering, 09/01/05 by Smith, Frank O. · More from publication

• RFID is the balm: motivated by mandates and a compelling business case, the pharmaceutical supply chain embraces RFID.(Security/Wireless) 

  The lion's share of RFID discussion is focused on the consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector, but it could be said the pharmaceutical industry has...

  Manufacturing Business Technology, 05/01/05 by Smith, Frank O. · More from publication

• Demand-driven model keeps best-of-breed vendors in the black.(Finite Capacity Scheduling) 

  For years it was forbidden by MRP II orthodoxy. Then it became a headliner, given the power of Windows and memory-loaded PCs, only to become...

  Manufacturing Business Technology, 03/01/05 by Smith, Frank O. · More from publication