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Detroit wants to get electrified

Escape publicity photo from Ford Motor. Ford is getting serious about electric cars. They have just teamed up with the Electric Power Research Institute to figure how to get electric cars onto the grid. At least along to fre-charge and get back on...

Tags: Station, Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Photos: Ford F-150 goes high-tech

For its F series trucks and E series vans, the automaker is set to offer a built-in dashboard computer and an RFID system for keeping tabs on tools. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Ford Motor Co., Productivity, RFID, Manufacturing, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-02-06

Jaguar Various Screensaver (zip)

Jaguar Cars Limited is a luxury car manufacturer, originally based at Browns Lane, Coventry, England but now at Whitley, Coventry. The company has been owned by Ford since 1989 and currently forms a part of Ford's Premier Automotive Group with Volvo and Land Rover. It contains over 20 high-resolution photos,...

Tags: Screensaver, Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing

Software downloads 2007-12-27

Ford Empowers Its 24-Hour Business With a Converged Network

For almost 50 years, Ford Otosan has distinguished itself as one of Turkey's largest car manufacturers. It produces over 200,000 vans and minibuses for export and domestic sale every year. The company wanted to provide one of Turkey's leading manufacturers with high-performance, cost-effective telecommunications support for its round-the-clock production facilities....

Tags: Converged Network, Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Ford Motor Co., VOIP, Manufacturing, Ethernet, Networking, Telecommunications

Case studies 2006-05-08

Printek Case Study: Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor selected the FormsPro as the printer of choice for its Common Manufacturing Management Systems CMMS project, one of the largest computer projects Ford has ever undertaken. Ford has installed over 300 of the FormsPro 4000 Series at its 59 component manufacturing plants in North America and internationally to,...

Tags: Printek, Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals

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Stratacache Case Study: Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company is the world's second largest automotive company with headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, USA and 13,200 dealers in 130 markets worldwide. The Ford Motor Company is using Stratacache's reliable multicast software to deliver key credit, inventory, and warranty software updates to more than 6,000 North American dealerships, reducing...

Tags: Stratacache, Ford Motor Co., Tools & Techniques, Manufacturing, Management

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Improving Customer Satisfaction Through Global Content Management

Ford Motor Company is the world's second largest manufacturer of cars and trucks, with operations in more than 40 countries, 114 manufacturing plants, and more than 350,000 employees. Ford Motor Company needed to help improve product quality and customer satisfaction by ensuring that content published by widely dispersed contributors to...

Tags: Customer Satisfaction, EMC Corp., Content Management, Ford Motor Co., Documentum ECM Platform, Records Management, Managerial Accounting, Product Marketing, Manufacturing, Storage, Finance, Marketing, Hardware

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Dell Revs Up Automotive Sales at Ford

Ford Motor Company of Canada is one automotive company that is on the leading edge of DMS deployment. The i-Connect team planned to eliminate old hardware and supply each dealership with a minimum of one new desktop and server. Ford Canada sent a request for quote RFQ to hardware companies...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dealership, Sales, Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing, Desktops, Hardware

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Windows 7 ship date? The crowd has spoken...

Last month, I kicked off the Windows 7 release date prediction pool with my analysis on why I think Windows 7 will be released in time for the holiday buying season in 2009, picking July 29, 2009 as my entry. At the same time, I invited readers to add their...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?

Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...

Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Top 10 automotive search terms

Rank Search Term Volume 1. toyota 2.22% 2. honda 2.00% 3. nissan 1.33% 4. ford 1.09% 5. honda motorcycles 1.00% 6. harley davidson 0.92% 7. dodge 0.88% 8. suzuki 0.80% ...

Tags: Motorcycle, NB

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?

As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...

Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Putting Workday on SAP's radar

Now that SAP's SaaS project Business ByDesign has gone on the back burner, I've been wondering how I'm going to pass the time next week at SAPPHIRE Berlin. One thing I'll be asking the enterprise software giant is how it feels about losing out to SaaS startup Workday for a...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Radar, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-14

REST: Reducing Effort in Script-based Testing

The narrow but very important problem: Test scripts used for version 1.0 of an application will probably break when applied to version 2.0 of that application. Testers try to edit old test scripts so that they won't need to create new ones from scratch, but the process is slow, tedious...

Tags: GUI, Ed Gottsman

Blog posts 2008-05-14

BitSlice (zip)

BitSlice is a set of readymade business components encapsulating business functionality that can be used to build business applications quickly and efficiently. BitSlice Component technology allows the developer to demarcate the application into levels of distinct functionality that could be stitched together to compose the application. The BitSlice components can...

Tags: Application, Business Application, Domain, Composite Software Systems, BitSlice, BitSlice Component Technology, Software Development, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Why HP-EDS is a disaster in the making

As I've noted elsewhere HP's takeover of Compaq destroyed essentially all of HP's pre-takeover value and left the Compaq organization operating as HP. Now they've announced their intention of taking over EDS. On the good news side there won't be a culture clash in bringing these...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Investment, Finance, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Starting from scratch at Tasty Baking's new facility

Brendan O'Malley, CIO at Tasty Baking discusses the pressures with getting design and IT right for the company's move into a new manufacturing facility after 90 years in the same plant. by Administrator

Tags: Manufacturing, Strategy, Management, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Automating the factory floor

Brendan O'Malley, CIO at Tasty Baking, describes how the company is automating its manufacturing operations by using a new "voice-picking system" in which employees are directed to each location on the factory floor via headset to ensure that the correct quantities of ingredients are being placed on each pallet. by...

Tags: Factory, Manufacturing, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Tasty Baking CIO: Brendan O'Malley

Brendan O'Malley, CIO of Tasty Baking talks to CNET News.com's Dan Farber about the IT challenges in making more than 5 million cakes, cookies and other desserts every day for fresh delivery. He also discusses streamlining the company's 90 year old business operations, developing inventory management solutions and how the...

Tags: CIO, Inventory Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptops

Details of Microsoft's recently announced plan to extend the life of Windows XP for ultra low-cost PCs are trickling out. IDG News got its hands on what it says are Microsoft documents outlining the program for PC manufacturers. Until now, the big question was: What exactly defines...

Tags: Linux, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-05-13