Leveraging A Build-to-Order Approach: Regional Solutions Factories
White Papers In this webcast, HP Supply Chain Manager Doug Kahn spearheaded efforts to create build-to-order factories in Roseville, California, and now in Singapore. Hear how his team validated and adopted proven processes where they made sense, and developed...
[July 19, 2003, 0:00]
IT Vendors Exposed Over 'sweatshop' Factories
News Workers employed in factories in the developing world making computer components for companies such as IBM, Dell and Hewlett-Packard are suffering atrocious conditions for extremely low pay, according to a report published on Tuesday.
[January 27, 2004, 16:50]
Diagnosis Of Complex Failures In Robotic Assembly Systems Using Virtual Factories
White Papers In this paper, Accenture discusses the result of an approach, which uses Virtual Factories to reduce the time spent on diagnosis. Robotic assembly systems are widely used in industry to improve the production task.
[May 11, 2004, 0:00]
Inkjet Printers Are Chip Factories Of The Future
News Inkjet printers could be the chip factories of the future, squirting out circuits made from layers of organic semiconducting ink. Experiments at the University of Arizona, Tucson, have demonstrated moving images made out of organic LEDs and power...
[April 11, 2002, 17:33]
IT Vendors Exposed Over 'sweatshop' Factories
Talkback perhaps apple can use this as a sales pitch for imacs
[January 29, 2004, 23:43]
IT Vendors Exposed Over 'sweatshop' Factories
Talkback Large US corporations abusing the developing world? Sounds familiar, there should be an "ethical index" for IT/tech companies so we know who plays fair and who doesnt
[January 28, 2004, 10:47]
Intel Factors For The Future With New Factories
News The first will be a $1.3 billion, 800,00 square feet wafer fabrication plant to be called Fab 16, slated to go live by 1999 with 800 staff. Initially, the plant will use a 0.25-micron process to produce Intel's most advanced chips.
[November 14, 1996, 14:52]
Chasing Silver Bullets: Realities Of Software Factories And Component Based Development
White Papers Developers are continually separating fact from hype, learning to integrate new tools within existing frameworks, and when proven effective leverage new processes along the way. The goal of this paper is to elucidate what component based...
[December 22, 2005, 23:00]
Putting Information To Work With Perl
White Papers IX Development Laboratories Inc.a Santa Rosa, California company, specializes in Web sites it calls Information Factories, or sites that involve a high degree of interaction with users. To facilitate its Information Factories, IX has developed an...
[September 13, 2007, 0:00]
Cisco Ditches Scottish Factory Merger
News Cisco has denied claims that its decision not to merge two Glasgow factories into one operation will cost thousands of high-tech jobs, at a time when Scotland's IT sector is still recovering from last year's bloodbath of redundancies.
[January 28, 2002, 17:42]
Intel Draws Chips With Extreme UV
News Intel has reached another milestone on the path to developing a new chip manufacturing technology that will keep its factories humming well into the future. Right now, Intel's factories are using lithography tools that use 193-nanometer light...
[August 2, 2004, 8:30]
Case Study: Pirelli
White Papers Pirelli's Tyre Sector has 22 factories and 20,000 employees in Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Turkey, The United States and Venezuela. Pirelli's IT infrastructure supports all of their offices and factories...
[December 12, 2005, 23:00]
Fears For Motorola's Scottish Chip Plants
News There are concerns that two Scotland factories could close if Motorola decides to sell off or close its semiconductors division. Motorola employees are understood to be concerned that the factories are under threat following comments reportedly...
[August 23, 2001, 17:21]
Microsoft Warns Of 'acute' UK Skills Shortage
Talkback The jobs and factories began in the UK, then jobs and factories moved to cheaper locations. When factories became smarter the decision where to locate factories was based less on costs. The software industry is going through the same cycle as...
[July 10, 2006, 14:05]
Palm Eyes Tiny Printer To Complement PDA
News Handheld maker Palm has taken a stake in a company that hopes to make millions of low-cost digital cameras and portable printers in its factories in China. It already has factories in Zhuhai and Shanghai, China, and is building a new, larger...
[January 30, 2001, 9:23]
Finger Points At Labour As Ericsson Denies Factory Buyer Story
News The Labour party was accused on Wednesday of playing dirty tricks after Ericsson denied that it was close to finding a buyer for two mobile manufacturing factories in Britain. Wednesday's Financial Times claimed that Ericsson was in "advanced talks...
[May 25, 2001, 16:02]
CodeGear Cultivates Developer Intelligence
News Application Factories is the new brand name for the tool that fits into the JBuilder 2008 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java. The methodology and associated collection of tools behind "Application Factories" aims to encourage the...
[April 1, 2008, 17:29]
AMD And Fujitsu Combine Flash Operations
News Currently, the two companies cooperate on chip development and manufacturing but split the output from the factories and sell their allotment of chips independently. The Santa Clara, California-based giant is setting up factories that will be...
[April 1, 2003, 7:54]
Intel's Got Fab Plans To Cut Costs
News Fabs, the factories where chips are made, now cost more than $2bn to build and fill with machinery. By making its communication chips in the same factories, Intel can spread its costs across more thinly.
[September 16, 2002, 9:32]
TI To Outsource Chip Production
News One of the few guys who can still go it alone is Intel, but most guys have decided the best way to go is to share the burden," of building factories, said Kevin Krewell, an editor at the Microprocessor Report newsletter.
[May 20, 2002, 11:10]

