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January/February 2011
Cover Story
MES Gets BPM Boost
by Stephanie Neil
With pressure to increase product quality and greater dependence on suppliers and outsourcers, manufacturers need more from their MES systems. Vendors are responding by adding BPM capabilities that enable agility in deployments and allow visibility across.
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The latest in enterprise software and manufacturing technology.
Technology Incubator: Potential Lurks In-Memory
by Chris Chiappinelli
In-memory technology has changed the way the database supports a business and has given a turbocharge to business intelligence and analytics.
Special Report: Forecast...Partly Cloudy
by Stephanie Neil
Manufacturers want the scalability and elasticity of cloud computing, but they don’t want to lose control of mission-critical applications. Therefore, the next-generation data center pushes edge applications, like CRM, into the public cloud and keeps core.
Case Study: "New and Improved" Creates Greater Agility
by Chris Chiappinelli
Pellerin Milnor needed to clean up its laundry-machine manufacturing operation by making it more responsive to customer demand. A new MES implementation helped it do just that.
Manufacturing Technology Update
A review of recent product additions and updates to Managing Automation’s TechMATCH product selection tool, including MES, ERP, and automation software..
Top of Their Game
by David R. Brousell
Honeywell’s Federal Manufacturing & Technologies subsidiary wins the Baldrige Award for operational excellence and quality, but the company’s culture and history are the real winners.
Commentary
Take 1
Continuous Improvement, MA Style
by David R. Brousell
This issue introduces a number of new editorial features to help manufacturers become more effective in their selection and use of key technologies.
Methods
The Evolution of Plant Systems
by Julie Fraser
If your company is considering an MES/MOM system, here are three things you should ask yourself, plus a bonus question.
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Where Have All the Machine Tools Gone?
by Robert Malone
The American Dream depends on our ability to make things. We appear to be outsourcing our way toward the destruction of this dream.
Notes
SaaS, Security, Wikileaks, and You
by Joshua Greenbaum
The debate about software-as-a-service versus on-premises obscures an important fact: Bad people, not deployments, cause data breaches.
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