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Manufacturing Executives Improve Speed of Decision Making, Saving $400,000 Annually
White Papers With global manufacturing operations, company managers were constantly out of the office and needed anywhere/anytime access to their e-mail messages, contacts, and calendar in order to make global business decisions faster.
[December 6, 2005, 0:01]
Manufacturing problems still haunting AMD
News AMD has had a lot of problems with manufacturing, with the number of good chips per wafer falling below expectations. Manufacturing is the most challenging aspect of the chip business -- something Intel is expert at.
[March 10, 1999, 9:20]
Plantwide Information: Manufacturing Execution Systems for SMB
White Papers Fortunately, new plantwide systems - commonly called Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) - are increasingly available, even to smaller companies. Manufacturers can no longer afford to have their plant floor be a black hole for information, run on...
[December 9, 2006, 0:00]
Manufacturing IT Infrastructure - Ready or Not for MES?
White Papers When the first Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) hit the market more than a decade ago, they were a good idea whose time had not come. While they promised great efficiency and quality improvements, MES systems were too immature and expensive to...
[February 29, 2008, 0:02]
Manufacturing Cost Simulations for Low Cost RFID Systems
White Papers Auto-ID talks about the cost analysis in this paper and simulate manufacturing and assembly processes to examine the feasibility of the 5¢ tag. Auto-ID has developed a model for costing RFID tags, which is similar to the approach used in the...
[June 19, 2004, 20:00]
Manufacturing Company Upgrades to a Centralized, Scalable and Reliable Core Network With Multilayer Switch Solution From Hitachi
White Papers The manufacturing facility of Japanese "Company A" required a major network infrastructure upgrade (the actual name of the company is not disclosed due to confidentiality agreements typical of these types of projects in Japan).
[June 9, 2009, 1:20]
How Cisco Enables Electronic Interactions With Sales, Manufacturing, and Service Partners
White Papers The group began to create automated data links and processes between the Cisco Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and the counterpart systems of partners, contract manufacturing and logistics providers, and third-party service companies.
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
Manufacturing Intelligence
White Papers The perfect factory is one that uses real-time manufacturing intelligence to achieve the best performance with minimal unscheduled downtime. By implementing new technology strategies that yield real-time manufacturing intelligence, manufacturers...
[August 30, 2006, 0:00]
Development of a Prototype PML Server for an Auto-ID Enabled Robotic Manufacturing Environment
White Papers This paper reports the ongoing development of a prototype PML Server at the Cambridge (UK) lab of the Auto-ID Centre, in order to store information about objects, batch orders and manufacturing recipes and to make this information available to an...
[June 19, 2004, 20:00]
Applying RFID Technology in High Volume Manufacturing
White Papers To explore the impact of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology in manufacturing, Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group deployed an RFID pilot within Intel's largest semiconductor assembly and test facility.
[February 15, 2006, 0:01]
RFID Applications in Manufacturing
White Papers The main obstacle to the spread of RFID in manufacturing is the success of barcodes, the previous generation of auto-ID technology. There is more to RFID than just tags that exchange data with readers wirelessly in response to electromagnetic stimuli.
[February 10, 2006, 0:01]
SAP Solutions Help French Pharmaceuticals Company Comply With Stringent Manufacturing Regulations
White Papers Fournier Pharma used to operate a patchwork of third-party systems for quality assurance, stock control, and manufacturing execution. Some of these systems did not have the necessary Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and U.S.
[March 6, 2009, 0:25]
Intel unveils new chip manufacturing technology
News The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker will use "strained silicon" -- or silicon where the atoms in the chip's silicon base are spaced further apart than normal -- in its chips made on the 90-nanometre manufacturing process, according to Mark...
[August 13, 2002, 7:39]
Thwarting Counterfeiting in the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Industry: Protect Your Brand and Increase Operational Efficiency Using Radio Frequency Identification
White Papers IBM solutions for Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) can help to incorporate dynamic tracking information into the supply chain to acquire a clear, accurate view of products as they travel from the manufacturing plant to the consumers' hands.
[December 9, 2006, 0:00]
Using the Theory of Constraints to Increase Sales: Applying Manufacturing Theory to Marketing/Sales
White Papers The Theory of Constraints (ToC) and its management application, Constraint Analysis (CA), have been successfully applied to product manufacturing systems to increase throughput for more than twenty years.
[April 27, 2005, 3:00]
Alpha Grainger Manufacturing, Inc. Replaces Aging Legacy Backup Hardware With LiveBackup
White Papers Alpha Grainger Manufacturing, Inc.is a Franklin, MA-based, ISO 9002-certified producer of precision screw machine products. The problem Alpha Grainger Mfg. Inc.faced was the need to replace a backup appliance that had come to its end-of-life and...
[February 3, 2005, 23:00]
Cisco Intelligent Networked Manufacturing
White Papers This solution overview discusses key issues facing manufacturing businesses as they strive to improve competitive advantage: Manufacturers need to reduce lead times, improve turnaround times, and deliver better service, but proprietary...
[June 16, 2005, 0:00]
PeopleSoft Case Study: Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America
White Papers To achieve its ambitious market growth goals, Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America (TMMNA) needed to control costs while optimizing employee productivity. Toyota Motor Corporation is the world's third largest carmaker.
[March 4, 2005, 23:00]
Improved Manufacturing Visibility Increases Productivity at Smiths
White Papers Smiths Manufacturing, a Durban-based group, specialises in the manufacturing and assembly of automotive plastic, air-conditioning, and engine-cooling components. Smiths replaced its legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications with a...
[March 4, 2005, 23:00]
AMD splits off its chip-manufacturing business
News AMD is to split off its manufacturing operations through a finance deal with a firm from the United Arab Emirates, which will leave AMD with total control of only its design wing. The chipmaker confirmed on Tuesday that it has signed an agreement...
[October 7, 2008, 16:43]
