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Data Security Considerations in Modern Automation Networks

The automation manufacturing business has reached its turning point and manufacturers are forced to create new business areas. Their expertise about field devices will be the source for future growth of automation industry. This includes monitoring, maintenance, data analysis and process tuning which all require good remoting capabilities in order...

Tags: Network, Mobile Communication, Data Security, Automation, Automation Manufacturing Business, Modems, Manufacturing, Cellular Phones, Networking, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2008-01-01

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Automation 2.0

Yesterday the AMR team met with Rockwell Automation's senior leadership group including CEO Keith Nosbusch to spend an entire day digging into the trends and challenges in today's manufacturing automation market.  Nosbusch is a graduate of University of Wisconsin's electrical and computer engineering program, and a 35 year veteran of...

Tags: Automation, Nosbusch, Manufacturing, Kevin O'Marah

Blog posts 2009-05-16

Consumer Goods Manufacturer Improves Productivity with ERP Upgrade

Ohio based CMC Group consists of four subsidiaries that provide printing and packaging solutions for a range of industries. In 2001, CMC Group implemented Microsoft Dynamics® AX for comprehensive business management and manufacturing capabilities. Looking to capitalize on enhancements in the latest version of the software, CMC Group worked...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, ERP, Microsoft Corp., Manufacturing, Strategy, Management

Case studies 2009-03-05

Spin, Baby, Spin â€" Oracle’s case for spending in a tough economy

How recessions should alter vendor behavior Oracle had a recent show here in Chicago. Attendees were given a very nice breakfast, a keynote from an Oracle executive and an opportunity to kick the tires on scads of Oracle products. The keynote address was...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Information Technology, Business Leader, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Epicor Software Case Study: Barry-Wehmiller Design Group

Barry-Wehmiller Design Group The Design Group is world leader in manufacturing automation and consulting services, providing industrial automation and engineering services to a wide variety of industries. As the company grew, business and technology needs matured and the company realized the manufacturing solution that was utilized across the Barry-Wehmiller companies...

Tags: Epicor Software Corp., Manufacturing

Case studies 2008-11-24

ByDesign, the younger person's ERP

Many of the small and mid-sized businesses to whom SAP would like to sell its Business ByDesign SaaS offering are family-owned, especially in sectors like manufacturing, distribution and retail. SAP seems to feel that ByDesign will appeal to the forward-looking younger generation of those families â€" the future heirs of...

Tags: Peter Zencke, Product, SAP AG, ERP, WIMA, Roi/Tco, Sales Strategy, Outsourcing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Sales, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-21

Freightliner Controls Inventory "Choke Points" With Motorola RFID

Freightliner-Western Star Trucks is the leading heavy-duty truck manufacturer in North America. Like many modern manufacturers, Freightliner faces constant pressure to improve the efficiency and accuracy of its resource handling in order to better control manufacturing costs. The Freightliner management team, headed by Plant Automation Project Manager Louis Fleischer, was...

Tags: Motorola Inc., Freightliner-Western Star Trucks, RFID, Manufacturing, Wireless, Security, Biometrics

Case studies 2008-04-01

Siemens Energy & Automation Deploys FirePass to Secure and Simplify Network Connections for End Users, IT Staff, Vendors, and Partners

With more than 12,000 employees worldwide, 31 manufacturing and distribution facilities, 8 R&D facilities, and more than 100 area sales offices throughout the U.S., Siemens Energy & Automation Inc. is one of Siemens' operating companies in the U.S. In order to provide authorized, secure network access to a range of...

Tags: F5 Networks Inc., Network, Siemens AG, Information Technology, Network Connection, Automation, FirePass Device, Research & Development, Sales Strategy, Network Security, Business Operations, Sales, Networking

Case studies 2008-02-11

Ten more ways SOA made a difference in 2007

From planes to trains to phones to hotels, SOA played a key role in advancing many businesses in 2007. I culled several more working examples of where SOA made a difference over the past year from my SOA in Action Website over at ebizQ, which tracks SOA success stories. More...

Tags: Airline, British Telecommunications, SOA, EasyFIDS, Marriott, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-12-27

Toshiba TEC Halves the Lead Times on Its Orders Through Flow Automation

Known in Europe for its laptop microcomputers and as a manufacturer of sophisticated electronic components, the Japanese group Toshiba also enjoys an enviable position in office systems through its subsidiary, the Toshiba TEC group, which specializes in multifunction printing systems (scanners, photocopiers, printers, etc.) and point-of-sale equipment (tills, balances, etc.)....

Tags: Oracle Corp., Logistics, Toshiba Corp., Printing, Automation, Toshiba TEC, Supply Chain, Document Management, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Case studies 2007-12-01

Are your consultants worth it?

Are your consultants worth it?Not a bad ideaOne might imagine some kind of contract where the consultant is paid as a proportion of the additional revenue his or her work brings to the customer. Of course you would have to have some agreed way of assessing this at the start...

Tags: Strategy, In-House

Discussion threads 2007-10-18

Open source, Microsoft models both wrong, Simonyi said

Open source, Microsoft models both wrong, Simonyi saidApple's and OrangesOpen source vs proprietary is less about how it is developed than it is about how it's distributed. Improvements in the process of development and testing can improve the quality of software regardless of how it's distributed, which means that...

Tags: Software development, Tools & Techniques, Development tools, Apple Inc., software, Simonyi, FLOSS, open source, application development, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-09-26

CAD/CIM and the SAB software selection

This is a guest column by frequent contributor Erik Engbrecht. It's part of the SAB software discussion and represents exactly what I'd hoped to spawn with this whole imaginary company business: an interesting dialogue. That said, here's Erik: Innovative information technology can be a critical means for...

Tags: Software, Core Competency, Information Technology, Competitive Advantage, Product, Manufacturing, SAB, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-09-06

Technology strategies and applications

Over the course of the next few weeks I'd like to sketch out three sets of business requirements and then ask which technologies, and correspondingly what kind of IT organization, would be best for each.This week I'd like to start that process with an imaginary research engineering company - the...

Tags: Productivity, Development, Database Management, Applications

Blog posts 2007-08-02

Sell magic

Sell magicWrong again, MurphWe're buying AMD64 machines for two reasons:1) They run the software that we need for our business2) At over $100K/cpu license, the [b]last[/b] thin we need is massively parallel at lower per/cpu performance.Power6 would be better for (2) but runs up against (1). SPARC (which until...

Tags: Processors, DSP, Cell, CPU, software, processor, Sun Sparc, game

Discussion threads 2007-07-18

Oracle 11i Applications Implementation for a Card Clothing Manufacturer

The client needed an integrated business information system for Manufacturing, Distribution, Finance, and Enterprise Asset Management and also needed to enforce best practices-driven processes and achieve process standardization. BSIL was chosen as the implementation partner on account of its demonstrated dominance in the areas of business process engineering, its expertise...

Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., Implementation, Oracle11i, ERP, BLUE STAR INFOTECH, Operational Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2007-07-17

America's tech moment of truth

America's tech moment of truthDubai; California Gold RushCalifornia knows how to deal with the tech moment of truth because it dealt with it during the Gold Rush. After gold was discovered, miners from all over the world came to California and struck claims. It was then as it is today...

Tags: USA Inc., tech moment

Discussion threads 2007-06-22

SAP CEO: We are not arrogant, we are the market leader

SAP CEO Henning Kagermanns Sapphire keynote see ZDNet coverage of the event didnt reveal any surprises. SAP is riding high after a good quarter and feeling confident in its ability to deliver on its ambitious strategy to establish enterprise SOA across its product line and enter the on demand application...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, SAP, Salesforce.com, SaaS, Oracle, NetSuite, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-25

QuickBooks Enterprise: The forgotten mid-market ERP player

What happens when the mom and pop businesses grow up to become mid-market companies? Conventional wisdom dictates that they graduate to an enterprise resource planning ERP application like Microsoft Dynamics GP, Sage MAS90 or an on-demand service from NetSuite. Increasingly,...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, ERP, Intuit QuickBooks, QuickBooks Enterprise, Intuit Inc.

Blog posts 2007-03-16

Bringing those dollars home

If I were an American, Id have a "Doni for Presi" bumper sticker, but since Im not Ill settle for quoting what Slate described as one of his poems: The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know....

Tags: Enterprise Policy, General

Blog posts 2007-02-15