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- Intel plans 65-nanometer plant in China
- Irish facilityCould this manufacturing facility affect Intel's Irish operations? Are these chips currently being manufactured at the Leixlip facility in Ireland?
- Tags: hardware, Intel Corp., msheehan@...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-12
- Manufacturing Company Upgrades to a Centralized, Scalable and Reliable Core Network With Multilayer Switch Solution From Hitachi
- The manufacturing facility of Japanese "Company A" required a major network infrastructure upgrade the actual name of the company is not disclosed due to confidentiality agreements typical of these types of projects in Japan. The manufacturing facility of Japanese "Company A" wanted to upgrade legacy distributed FDDI network to a...
- Tags: Network, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Manufacturing, Networking, Hardware
- Case studies 2006-03-21
- Work in Progress Monitoring Using RFID
- The ability of any enterprise to effectively monitor its manufacturing facility and "Work in progress" has been an elusive or costly endeavor. However, with the introduction of RFID technologies and its application to the manufacturing process such initiatives are now well within reach. RFID by its very nature has the...
- Tags: Monitoring, Manufacturing, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Improving Manufacturing Operations Efficiency Using RFID
- Sun is a pioneer in RFID technology, and in December 2003 completed a successful pilot implementation at its Newark, California manufacturing facility. The key challenge was to find whether RFID technology can be used on the factory floor. The solution was the six-week pilot, which showed: High Accuracy, no unintentional...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., RFID, Manufacturing, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- Case studies
- Nusco Dramatically Slices Processing Times, Leading to 30 Percent Boost in Manufacturing Capacity
- Running two shifts a day is a challenge for any manufacturing facility. But it's all the more challenging when administrative detail gets in the way of handling incoming orders from customers and outgoing orders to vendors for raw materials. That's what Nusco Supply and Manufacturing faced few years ago. Nusco...
- Tags: Order, IBM Corp., Manufacturing
- Case studies
- Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Accelerate VMware Image Replication and Applications for Pharmaceutical Firm
- Cubist Pharmaceuticals is a rapidly growing biopharmaceutical firm that focuses on the development of anti-infective drugs. Cubist Pharmaceuticals faced a number of limitations to deploying IT services efficiently via its distributed WAN environment. The company had embraced a consolidated infrastructure model and wanted to deliver applications globally while at the...
- Tags: Riverbed Technology Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, VMware Inc., Replication
- Case studies 2007-09-20
- NetApp Improves Business Processes Running Oracle E-Business Suite
- Since its founding in 1992, Network Appliance has been a pioneer in data management solutions. Until 2000, NetApp had relied on a single manufacturing facility to support a relatively small product line. Explosive growth, product line maturation, manufacturing process outsourcing, and the increasing complexity of partner and channel programs required...
- Tags: Business Process, Network Appliance Inc., Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, NetApp, Storage, Data Management, Manufacturing, Hardware
- Case studies
- Cefla Group Accelerates Business Processes by Up to 87% With Integrated Enterprise Resource Planning
- Cefla Group, a leading Italian manufacturing group, specializes in four sectors: store fittings and fixtures; finishing systems for wood-based, plastic, and non-ferrous materials; dental equipment; and manufacturing facility engineering and interior design. The company wanted to implement lean thinking principles and information systems that enhance decision making across corporate functions,...
- Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., Lean Manufacturing, Decision-making, ERP, Tools & Techniques, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Manufacturing, Management, It Operations
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- Optimizing Asset Management Cuts Equipment Breakdowns by 40% and Extends Asset Life by 30% for Al Ghurair
- Al Ghurair Group wanted to improve the management of the businesses, enhance flexibility, and become a leaner, more agile organization to improve the bottom line. The company also had the goal of maximizing the value of the manufacturing and real estate assets by integrating their management on a single system....
- Tags: Asset, Oracle Corp., Asset Management, Real Estate, Enterprise Software, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Software
- Case studies
- Determining a Better Metric for RFID Performance in Environments With Varying Noise Levels
- Often users wish to maximize the range of a passive RFID system. At the furthest extent of their range the signal between tag and reader will be at the weakest level which the reader can detect. It is desirable to know how close a system is to operating at this...
- Tags: Environment, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2006-06-13
- NOD32, Crossing the Globe With Data Protection
- Eastek International is an international ISO 9001 certified contract manufacturing facility offering complete solutions for printed circuit board assembly, using the latest technology in manufacture and testing. Eastek International was looking for a product with a smaller footprint, one that required fewer hands on updating/installing, with limited user interaction and...
- Tags: Data Protection, Circuit Board, Eset, Eastek International
- Case studies
- New Dell Plant Ships One-Millionth Unit in Record Time With Operational Efficiency Model
- Headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, Dell Inc. has about 75,000 employees on six continents, delivering products and services to customers in more than 180 countries. Company revenue for the last four quarters was $57.4 billion. Dell wanted its newest and largest manufacturing facility to increase efficiency by 15 percent and...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Manufacturing
- Case studies
- Delivering Fulfillment Excellence: A Global Survey on Fulfillment Trends and Performance
- Fulfillment is a term defined simply as "completion of a sales order" or as elaborately as a process that supplies a product directly from a manufacturing facility to a distributor or end user. The fulfillment cycle may include receiving customer orders, configuring the products to order, shipping and invoicing products...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Fulfillment, Performance, Accenture Ltd., Survey, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-01-29
- Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications Consolidates Critical Infrastructure on NetApp SAN Storage
- Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications Co. Ltd. SSMC is Siemens's biggest manufacturing facility outside Germany and the largest Siemens operating company in China. The telecom market in China in the past years has grown substantially, driven by China's tremendous economic growth and rapid modernization. As a result, SSMC has had to...
- Tags: China, Siemens AG, Mobile Communication, NetApp, Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- Homeopathic Company Safeguards System, Heals Network Security From the Inside Out
- Heel USA is a multimillion-dollar company that was founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1979 by Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg, MD, who originally founded Heel in Baden-Baden, Germany in 1936. With a new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility to accommodate, Heel needed a solid network solution that could safeguard its confidential data and information,...
- Tags: Network, Network Security, Dell Server, Networking, Servers, Security, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-06-06
- Book Manufacturer's Job Management Solution Improves Workflow by 33 Percent
- Webcom Limited is a leading book manufacturer in Canada specializing in custom book production. Its heterogeneous IT infrastructure and aging AS/400 solution did not support the company's state-of-the-art integrated manufacturing facility. Discontinuous information flow impeded staffers' abilities to collaborate throughout the steps of a book's production, forcing them into inefficient...
- Tags: Job, Microsoft Corp., Workflow, Recruitment & Selection, Process Improvement, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Quality, Business Operations
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- Gear up for baby boomers' exodus from tech
- The collective knowledgeThis is going to be a problem everywhere. I have been at my present job for over 25 years, I'm one of few people left who can remember moving into our current building. The problem I'm having is convincing my employer that the knowledge I have goes when...
- Tags: worker, knowledge, collective knowledge, boomers exodus, dldigital, career
- Discussion threads 2006-07-28
- Preparation Checklist: Download our project template for migrating to Exchange 2000
- Use this sample Microsoft Project template for migrating from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000.As we’ve mentioned in previous articles, migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2000 in an enterprise environment requires extensive planning, testing, and organizational consideration. This article provides a Microsoft Project template for a sample company migrating from Exchange 5.5...
- Tags: E-mail servers, Microsoft Project, Rick Vanover, STI, Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server
- Technical articles 2001-05-24
- Seven reasons to turn down business
- When I first started consulting independently, I was a software prostitute: any opening, name your position, I'd do any job that came my way if the price was right. Now that I'm older and prettier and have several steady clients I can afford to say "no...
- Tags: Programming, Development Tools, Intellectual Property, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Research & Development, Business Operations, Chip Camden
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Would you accept an IT job as "Jack Of All trades" or run from it?
- I seem to see a very disturbing trend among many of the positions being posted on job search engines as well as those being emailed to me by recruiters. Companies want a network admin, a DBA, a developer, a Cisco engineer, and a security specialist all combined in one....
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Why Me Worry??, server, job, small company, salary, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-06-05
