 | Global Production Network Planning at Caterpillar Inc.: a Case Study Caterpillar Inc. is the largest maker of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines in the world. |
| How Do Supply Networks Shape Industrial Emergence? New forms of supply networks are emerging to support novel technologies coming to market and also to underpin alternative business models. |
| Reconfigured Supply Chain Networks for Competitive Advantage Are you making the most of your extended supply network? |
| Tailored Approaches to Manufacturing Footprint Strategy As global economies becoming increasingly interconnected, companies need to develop the most appropriate configuration of international manufacturing plants to maximize access to markets and strategic resources. |
| Making the Right Things in the Right Places The potential benefits from a manufacturing footprint strategy are huge. |
| Innovation in Manufacturing: The Collaborative Imperative - Building a New Foundation for Innovation Success In today’s increasingly complex global market, manufacturers face unrelenting pressure to create new products and services that will provide competitive advantage and drive growth. As a result, mastering the process of innovation has become a greater imperative than ever before. |
| Innovation in Manufacturing: The Collaboration Imperative, Webcast Podcast How a Collaboration Strategy Can Create Better Products and Services for Customers and Faster Time to Market for Manufacturers |
| Innovation in Manufacturing: The Collaboration Imperative, Webcast Transcript How a collaboration strategy can create better products and services for customers and faster time to market for manufacturers |
| Manufacturing’s Agenda for 2010, Transcript In a new, exclusive Managing Automation reader poll, manufacturers in the U.S. and Europe reveal their top business initiatives and technology priorities for 2010. They also report their attitudes with regard to the state of the economy, their own business prospects and their hiring and budget plans for the new year. |
| Manufacturing’s Agenda for 2010, Podcast In a new, exclusive Managing Automation reader poll, manufacturers in the U.S. and Europe reveal their top business initiatives and technology priorities for 2010. They also report their attitudes with regard to the state of the economy, their own business prospects and their hiring and budget plans for the new year. |