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Responsiveness vs efficiency.(The Greatest Innovation Since the Assembly Line: Powerful Strategies for Business Agility)(Brief article)(Book review)

The Greatest Innovation Since the Assembly Line: Powerful Strategies For Business Agility Michael Hugos Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2007, 226 pages,...
Industry Week, 06/01/07 by Teresko, John · More from publication -
Integrating IT with manufacturing: ODVA members Cisco and Rockwell Automation collaborate to simplify manufacturing connectivity.

REMEMBER WHEN the factory floor and enterprise IT were two separate, unconnected worlds? Unfortunately, integrating these two disparate...
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PLM market grows to meet integration challenges.(product lifecycle management)

Last year's record investment in product lifecycle management (PLM) is this year's systems integration challenge. The evidence: In 2006...
Industry Week, 06/01/07 by Teresko, John · More from publication -
Competing with boundless energy efficiency: although every company is feeling the effects of rising energy costs, some manufacturers have gained competitive advantage by making energy efficiency part of their business strategy. It's a sustainability strat

REGARDLESS OF INDUSTRY sector, companies are being impacted by energy's growing cost significance. While those rising prices signal the need for...
Industry Week, 05/01/07 by Teresko, John · More from publication -
Seeing more with machine vision: the performance and sophistication gap between low-cost vision sensors and high-end vision systems is closing.(factory automation)

Expect more from machine vision, whether in providing the eyes for robot systems or as high performance ID readers. In robotic applications...
Industry Week, 05/01/07 by Teresko, John · More from publication -
Machine vision's compelling drivers.(Juan Rosales report)(Brief article)

Declining prices and increasing returns on investment are accelerating machine vision's growth, reports Juan Rosales, research analyst with Frost...
Industry Week, 05/01/07 by Teresko, John · More from publication -
The promise of machine emotion.(The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Human Mind)(Brief article)(Book review)

The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Human Mind Simon & Schuster, 2006, 387 pages, $26.00 ...
Industry Week, 05/01/07 by Teresko, John · More from publication -
The plug-and-play future has begun.(FACTORY AUTOMATION)(Association for Manufacturing Technology standards)(Freedom E-Log from Maintenance Technologies)(Brief article)

INDUSTRY'S SEARCH FOR MACHINE TOOL interoperability solutions predates the launch of AMT's standards initiative. One example is a machine...
Industry Week, 04/01/07 by Teresko, John · More from publication -
Standardizing machine communication: an initiative targeting machine tool interoperability promises to revolutionize manufacturing.(FACTORY AUTOMATION)(Association for Manufacturing Technology)

WHAT IF MACHINE TOOLS came with a standard way of exchanging information? It's coming, with the promise of dramatic efficiencies, data access and...
Industry Week, 04/01/07 by Teresko, John · More from publication -
A peak under the hood at CAMX.(FACTORY AUTOMATION)(Computer Aided Manufacturing using XML)(IPC-2501 standards from Institute for Printed Circuits)(extensible markup language)

The electronics industry offers a sneak preview of what interoperability standards can offer machine tool users. Known as Computer Aided...
Industry Week, 04/01/07 by Teresko, John · More from publication


