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USG Corporation Extends Customer Satisfaction Leadership With Integrated Supply Chain Management

EUSG Corporation wanted to extend customer satisfaction leadership by improving on-time delivery performance and become the easiest company with which to do business in the industry by reducing the time customers need to devote to processing transactions. The challenge was to provide customers with timely, accurate, easy-to-access information about product...

Tags: Supply Chain, Manufacturing Facility, Oracle Corp., Customer Satisfaction, SCM, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Product Marketing, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

Case studies 2008-09-01

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Brickbats over bricks

Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a "brick." The answer from CalStar: "ASTM is not the gatekeeper for new products - national and local building codes are....

Tags: Brick, Standards, CalStar, ASTM, Ash Brick, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Xbox 360: Played x5 more than Wii, x5 more likely to fail that PS3

360 is sorta like owning an old sports carYou love the thing, but hate that it breaks down all the time. The reason people are so loyal to the 360 is that the software and game library are fantastic. The controllers work great and are durable without any gimmicks. When...

Tags: Game players, reason people, Sony PlayStation 3, console, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox, failure rate, Microsoft Xbox 360

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Can velocity revolutionize the data center business?

Digital Realty Trust is trying to do to the data center business what Dell did to computer manufacturing and Wal-Mart continues to do to the retail market â€" make delivery efficiency the killer app. It claims it can build out a complete enterprise-class, energy-efficient data center in as little as...

Tags: Data Center, DRT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-08-05

To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket Foundry

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., Boeing Co., S-IC, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-10

Boston-Power aims to ramp up green battery production

Green computer battery maker Boston-Power must be doing all right for itself. The company is build a 455,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Auburn, Mass., to produce its lithium-ion battery technology, which is offered as replacement options for notebooks for Hewlett-Packard. The site is expected to create 600 new jobs. ...

Tags: Lithium-ion, Battery, Lithium-ion Battery, Boston-Power, Engineering, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Energy for (almost) free

If something is being thrown away, and can be turned into something valuable, that should count for an uptick in productivity, and a good business if the actual turning process isn't too costly. The folks at ElectraTherm claim a process that turns waste efficiently into useful energy. Specifically...

Tags: Exhaust, ElectraTherm, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Fake iPhone nano appears in China

Fake iPhone nano appears in ChinaThis is what we have to look forward toKnock-offs from China (can't call them cheap anymore; seems that the quality is up)how can it be a fake of a non-existent product?Okay, I don't quibble with calling its interface and design a "rip-off" of Apple's iPhone,...

Tags: Manufacturing, iPhone Nano, Apple iPhone, Fake iPhone nano, CECT

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

Epicor Software Case Study: Symetrics Industries, LLC

As a full-rate production facility providing reliable, high-quality electronic manufacturing services and solutions, Symetrics Industries is an AS9100/ISO 9001- 2000 registered company that designs, manufacturers and tests aerospace and defense (A&D) systems for both the U.S. government and other governments around the world. To improve its competitive position, support future...

Tags: Epicor Software Corp., Manufacturing, Aerospace & Defense

Case studies 2009-04-06

Fujitsu America CEO makes mid-market enterprise bet

Fujitsu America will kick off April 1 as an integrated IT systems player with a game plan to target mid-market enterprise customers and large corporations in industries such as retail, financial services, government, manufacturing and health care. Last September, Fujitsu announced plans that it would create Fujitsu North America...

Tags: Information Technology, Fujitsu Ltd., Strategy, It Services, Manufacturing, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Sources to Dow Jones: Apple plans to launch touchscreen netbook

Sources to Dow Jones: Apple plans to launch touchscreen netbookWho says it will be 500 dollars?The last thing Apple would want is that someone purchase a Windows netbook as there is no Apple alternative for them to consider.At least an 800 dollar netbook would give the consumer the size they...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Keyboards, Apple Inc., netbook, Dow Jones & Company Inc., touch screen

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

News to know: Intel, IBM; Apple; SOA

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan:  IBM job cuts underway Intel restructures manufacturing ops; 5,000 to 6,000 workers hit Sam Diaz: Wall...

Tags: Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), GPS, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Recruitment & Selection, Handhelds, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Sales, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-22

Intel restructures manufacturing ops; 5,000 to 6,000 workers hit

Intel said Wednesday that it is revamping its manufacturing operations, cutting capacity and potentially laying off about 5,000 to 6,000 workers. In a statement, Intel said it was restructuring to adjust to weak demand. The chip giant quickly added that the capacity cuts wouldn't affect its plans...

Tags: Worker, Intel Corp., Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-21

Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand

No matter their political affiliation, most people who have an opinion about what President-elect Barack Obama should do first after he’s sworn into office point to the country’s economic identity crisis as his first order of business. And given how much the latest jobs report rattled the...

Tags: Job, Clean Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-08

AMD finally announces "asset-smart" plan; new Foundry Company created

AMD and a technology investment company backed by the government of Abu Dhabi have established a new semiconductor company that will manufacture AMD's advanced processors. The new company--currently known as "The Foundry Company"--will take over all of AMD's existing manufacturing facilities, including the two leading-edge fabs in Dresden, Germany, and...

Tags: Asset, Foundry Networks Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Government, Hardware, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-10-07

The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments

I realize Advanced Micro Devices has some news in the offing this week that likely will supersede the urgency of this blog's content, but I wanted to recount some high points from a conversation I had about two weeks ago with Larry Vertal, the company's senior strategist when it comes...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Larry Vertal, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Manufacturing, Competitiveness and Technological Leadership in the Semiconductor Industry

Advanced Micro Devices AMD, the world's second largest producer of microprocessors, has announced its intent to build a new $4 billion-plus leading edge semiconductor foundry manufacturing facility in Saratoga County, New York as part of a joint venture with the Advanced Technologies Investment Corporation ATIC of Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. When...

Tags: Leadership, Manufacturing, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Semiconductors, Hardware

White papers 2008-10-06

Tesla plans San Jose manufacturing site for electric car

San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed has convinced green car maker Tesla Motors to build a proposed $250 million facility in north San Jose, adding approximately 1,000 clean-tech jobs to his community by 2010. The deal will be disclosed today during a press conference in California. The first...

Tags: Car, San Jose, Clean Technology, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, Clean-tech Job, Mayor Reed, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-17

End of an era: Dell may dump its factories

End of an era: Dell may dump its factoriesRubbed up the wrong way?"The rub: It's unclear whether contract equipment manufacturers would want to buy Dell's manufacturing hubs. Do contract manufacturers really want to take on Dell's capacity?"Don't CEM's want to take on everyone's capacity ... I mean isn't their model...

Tags: Manufacturing, Notebooks, Dell Computer Corp., End-Of-An-Era

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

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