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- Smiths Manufacturing Lowers Administrative and Warehouse Costs While Managing Rapid Growth
- Fueled by high demand for its quality products, Smiths' revenue increased by 150% between 2000 and 2005, with 80% in headcount growth. Smiths had the foresight to begin replacing its unscalable legacy systems before its growth spurt. In 1999, motivated to increase production profits, the company selected Oracle's JD Edwards...
- Tags: Growth, Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Smiths Manufacturing, Human Capital, Financial Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Hardware Upgrade, Sales Strategy, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Sales
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- Smiths Manufacturing Pty (Ltd) Expands Production Capabilities by Integrating Manufacturing Processes
- Smiths Manufacturing Pty Ltd is a leading manufacturer of air conditioning and engine cooling components for the automotive industry. The company wanted to align and centralize disparate legacy enterprise resource planning applications. The challenge was to integrate production facilities to gain full business process visibility and enhance manufacturing capabilities without...
- Tags: Manufacturing
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- Smiths Aerospace Finds Flexible Help With New SAP Out-Tasking Contract
- Smiths Aerospace is a leading transatlantic company. From landing gear and propellers to electrical systems and engine components, it supplies innovative solutions to all leading builders and operators of military and civil aircraft. Smiths Aerospace needed to successfully implement and manage a new SAP business software installation without specialist in-house...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., SAP AG, Smiths Aerospace, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Engineering Company Builds on Trend Micro Enterprise Protection Strategy
- Smiths Group is a global engineering business with core specializations in aerospace, detection, medical, and specialty engineering. When the group merged with TI Group in 2000, the group infrastructure and IT security manager faced the task of standardizing IT across the consolidated company. The company deployed Trend Micro NeatSuite which...
- Tags: Trend Micro Inc., Smiths Group, Strategy, Engineering, Security, Management
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- Orchestration of Service-Oriented Manufacturing Processes
- This paper outlines the perspectives opened by the application of the service-orientation paradigm for realizing high-level communications between next-generation, increasingly intelligent embedded devices - it indicates how this approach can benefit the manufacturing industry - and outlines the issues and approaches for cohesively coordinating manufacturing services at various levels of...
- Tags: Manufacturing
- White papers 2005-04-25
- Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain: How Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transfer Benefits to Operations
- The blurring of the line between manufacturing and supply chain logistics provides the opportunity to move efficient manufacturing management concepts to supply chain management. One manufacturing concept stands out as most successful: the concept of lean. This paper from Ventana Research describes lean manufacturing and how it can be applied...
- Tags: Strategy, Benefit, Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-04-20
- Symbol Hands-Free Scanners Selected by TSW Manufacturing Ltd
- TSW Manufacturing Ltd. is a manufacturing company producing alloy wheels for both the aftermarket and as original equipment to the motor manufacturers. Before the introduction of the wireless wearable system solution from Symbol Technologies TSW Manufacturing used fixed position computers for data entry. With the Symbol system, they are able...
- Tags: Symbol Technologies Inc., TSW Manufacturing Ltd., Manufacturing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
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- Lean Manufacturing - Click-Through Demo (msi)
- This is a portable, interactive demo that closely simulates the UI and functionality of an actual solution. Installs to your Start menu and includes a presenter script. Scenario Summary: A lean manufacturing process design solution can help organizations reduce lean manufacturing implementation costs, improve collaboration surrounding lean manufacturing implementation, and...
- Tags: Lean Manufacturing, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, It Operations
- Software downloads 2007-10-05
- Manufacturing Intelligence
- The perfect factory is one that uses real-time manufacturing intelligence to achieve the best performance with minimal unscheduled downtime. As market leaders, these model plants are highly efficient, productive, and profitable. By implementing new technology strategies that yield real-time manufacturing intelligence, manufacturers can achieve high levels of optimization and overall...
- Tags: Factory, Manufacturing Intelligence, Manufacturing
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- Adaptive Manufacturing: Enabling the Lean Six Sigma Enterprise
- This SAP white paper reviews the history of lean manufacturing best practices and explains why a more pragmatic approach to lean manufacturing is now in order. Find out how market forces such as demand variability and supplier fragmentation are affecting manufacturers and what they must do to extend lean- and...
- Tags: Lean Manufacturing, SAP AG, Supplier, Manufacturing, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Six Sigma, Process Improvement, Channel Management, It Operations, Quality, Business Operations, Marketing
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Sun and Teradyne Help Contract Manufacturing Leader Stay Competitive
- Mack Technologies MACK manages its electronics manufacturing service business using Teradyne's manufacturing execution solution running on Sun Enterpriseservers. Despite many changes in MACK's business over the years, this solution has continually exhibited the flexibility to accommodate the ever-changing requirements of this dynamic industry. From reliability to functionality to helping capture...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Teradyne Inc., Manufacturing
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- How Digital Manufacturing Helps Achieve Quality, Time and Cost Targets in High Tech and Electronics Manufacturing
- Ascom Electronic Industrial Services EIS wanted to employ an integrated system that speeds up conversion of design data into manufacturing data. Identify and correct quality problems to build a comprehensive knowledge base to continuously improve the manufacturing process. Ascom Electronic Industrial Services EIS, a part of Ascom Security Solutions Division...
- Tags: Electronics, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- HOPPE Reduces Manufacturing Costs and Increases Turnover With Integrated ERP Solution
- Enjoying approximately 20% market share, HOPPE is the European market leader in developing, producing, and marketing door and window hardware systems. HOPPE wanted to increase turnover and integrate geographically distributed manufacturing plants to improve operational efficiency. The challenge was to achieve greater control over production processes to reduce manufacturing costs....
- Tags: ERP, HOPPE, Manufacturing
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- Moving Toward Digital Manufacturing
- With its headquarters in Spain and operations in more than 70 countries, SEAT is a car manufacturer that places special emphasis on design and the sporting spirit. The company's challenge was to introduce digital manufacturing tools while simultaneously working on the development of the new model. When it came to...
- Tags: Manufacturing
- Case studies 2007-02-01
- Vantage 8.0 Architecture: Next Generation Manufacturing Software
- Vantage 8.0 is the next generation manufacturing solution developed by Epicor Software Corporation. It builds on the successes of the Vista, Vantage, Avante and other associated discrete manufacturing product lines by introducing a total manufacturing solution for the midmarket. It is built to leverage the Microsoft .NET Framework and Progress...
- Tags: Epicor Software Corp., Vantage 8.0, Manufacturing
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Midea Group Streamlines Manufacturing Workflows
- The Environmental Electrical Appliances division of Midea Group is responsible for research and development, manufacturing, sales, and service for various ventilation and environmental treatment products. The division wanted to improve collaboration between manufacturing facilities while allowing them to continue operating independently. The challenge was to standardize and streamline manufacturing processes...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Business Management, Workflow, Manufacturing
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- The best manufacturing articles of last year are compiled for you right here
- The manufacturing landscape is more complex now than ever. Technology is driving change. Supply chains are crossing hemispheres. And new markets are emerging daily. Manufacturing Business Technology magazine, a leading publication, has collected a year's worth of the best articles on high performance manufacturing practices--and compiled them for you. ...
- Tags: Manufacturing
- White papers 2008-01-08
- BS1 Enterprise Accounting with Manufacturing (exe)
- Manufacturing, distribution, and accounting software: accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, inventory, purchase orders, sales orders, quotes, manufacturing, and sales analysis. Sales orders may be entered as quotes and printed for customer approval, picking slips printed, orders confirmed, bills of lading printed, and backorders tracked. Manufacturing orders default to the...
- Tags: Accounting, Manufacturing, Sales Strategy, Sales
- Software downloads 2008-02-08
- General Assembly Manufacturing
- Recognizing that a lack of process consistency is seriously hampering production efficiency, companies are enforcing standard processes and methodologies across their extended enterprise by adopting a digital manufacturing environment where knowledge and best practices can be captured and shared through a centrally managed repository. Digital manufacturing solutions based on PLM...
- Tags: Manufacturing
- White papers 2008-01-01
- HyClone Uses Integrated Manufacturing Suite for Compliance With FDA Requirements
- Founded in 1967, HyClone has revolutionized the cell culture industry, evolving into a leader in manufacturing cell culture media, sera, and BioProcess Container systems. In April 1998, HyClone began preparing for Y2K, and took the opportunity to rethink its entire information system. Each of its sites was using separate PC-based...
- Tags: FDA, Compliance, HyClone, Manufacturing
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