Fortum Relies On MySQL To Monitor Power Plant In Real Time
White Papers The Hogdalen power plant near Stockholm, Sweden is one of Europe's most modern facilities for waste incineration. As management prepared to add new waste fuel boiler to the plant in late 2004, they found that the current system for monitoring the...
[November 14, 2005, 23:00]
GrafTech Extends Supply Chain, Maximizes Plant Uptime And Resources
White Papers The company needed an easy-to-implement, cost-effective supply chain management (SCM) solution that would allow it to introduce new processes to manage plant capacity and product scheduling on a company-wide basis.
[March 9, 2005, 23:00]
A Year Ago: IBM Invests $20m In MR Head Plant
News IBM is planning to increase production of its MR head hard disk drive technology with a purpose built plant in China. The company has announced plans to pump $20m into the development of a new plant while it has also announced an OEM deal with Maxtor.
[February 19, 1999, 6:33]
Streamlined Plant Management Complies With Safety Regulations
White Papers The "Work Clearance Management" process enhances SAP's industry solution for the utilities industry, while supporting the execution of plant maintenance activities in power plants. Based in Walldorf, Germany, SAP AG is the world's largest ERP...
[May 24, 2005, 0:00]
Just-in-Time And A Maximum Of Flexibility Peguform Uses MySAP Automotive To Optimize New Plant Operations
White Papers KG, a leading manufacturer of interior and exterior automobile equipment, was able to meet prototype production requirements in its new plant in Meerane, Germany. Creating prototypes is one of the most challenging processes in the automotive industry.
[September 28, 2007, 0:00]
Nokia To Open Plant In India
News Nokia said on Wednesday that it plans to invest in a new plant in India as part of an effort to meet growing demand for mobile devices in the country. The Finnish handset maker, which holds the number one position in the global market, said that it...
[December 2, 2004, 7:45]
AMD Puts Dresden Plant In Spotlight
News AMD's Fab 30 plant in Dresden has shipped its ten-millionth Athlon processor, and is set to lead the company's drive to a new manufacturing process early next year. The world's second-largest processor manufacturer said on Tuesday that it had...
[August 1, 2001, 17:04]
Intel To Open Chip Plant In China
News The vast majority of the budget in building and operating a plant revolves around the equipment for "drawing" circuits on wafers or sputtering metallic vapours onto silicon. As reported earlier, the plant will be located in an industrial rust-belt...
[March 26, 2007, 9:00]
IBM Fishkill Semiconductor Plant An Example Of Agile, Realtime Operation
White Papers When IBM (www.ibm.com) designed its state-of-the-art chip fabrication plant in Fishkill, New York, the technology giant was determined to avoid the same production line processes that impeded productivity and impact customer service at its...
[June 25, 2004, 0:00]
Stephen King Puts The Plant On Ice
News Stephen King is pulling the plug, for now, on The Plant. She added, however, that King had decided to put The Plant aside before he had the final figures for his fourth installment. Although The Plant was a significant experiment within the...
[November 29, 2000, 10:43]
City Of Detroit Improves Water Plant Management With Integration
White Papers TIBCO's business integration and business optimization solutions help the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department improve data access to support 19 staffed locations and supply key DWSD employees with current information regarding plant operations...
[November 10, 2004, 23:00]
Delivering Success In Plant Operations Management
White Papers This white paper describes some of the challenges that manufacturing managers face and how some companies are achieving success in Plant Operations Management.
[November 10, 2003, 23:00]
Sun Micro Plant Blooms In Scotland
News Sun Microsystems has spent $57m (£36m) upgrading its manufacturing plant in Scotland, a facility which among other things produces high-end Sun Fire 15000 servers for the EMEA region. Its Linlithgow facility has been expanded 175 percent to a 220...
[February 27, 2003, 11:40]
The World's Most Advanced Engine Plant Uses Printronix Printers With Online Data Validation
White Papers Plant Hams Hall, also known as the "world's most advanced car engine production plant," produces approximately 600 engines a day. Engines produced at Plant Hams Hall are labeled with a Code 39 bar code that holds each engine's serial number.
[September 24, 2004, 0:00]
3Com To Shut Dublin Plant
News Typically, outsourcing helps companies lower their costs by reducing the overhead of maintaining a manufacturing plant and staffing it with workers. The Dublin plant is expected to close by the end of February 2004, the company said.
[September 11, 2003, 9:00]
600 Jobs Lost At NEC's Scottish Chip Plant
News The chip maker confirmed fears that its restructuring efforts would include job losses from the plant, based in Livingston. However, Scotland has already seen recent job cuts in the tech sector, with Motorola's Bathgate manufacturing plant closing...
[July 31, 2001, 11:56]
A Year Ago: Funlove Virus Wreaks Havoc At Dell Plant
News The Funlove virus has ransacked Dell's manufacturing plant in Limerick, Ireland, a disaster that could cost the computing company millions of pounds in damages. Not much fun for Dell: £14m in damages, 12,000 computers recalled
[November 19, 2000, 6:05]
MTC Helps General Mills' Plant Prove Feasibility Of Robust Wireless Solution
White Papers How could they synchronize plant information with their back-end database systems in real time? General Mills' plan was to leverage a mobile auditing system using handheld devices to improve operational efficiencies, but wireless connectivity can...
[October 26, 2003, 23:00]
HP Closes California Plant
News Aiming to consolidate some server manufacturing in Houston, Texas, Hewlett-Packard plans to close a California plant that makes servers and storage products. About 500 employees work at the Roseville, California, plant, which makes HP 9000 servers...
[January 31, 2003, 8:07]
Cyrix 6x86MX .25 Micron First For Nat Semi Plant
News Cyrix is upping the stakes in the increasingly competitive semiconductor market after announcing that it will start volume production of its 6x86MX processor on .25 micron processing technology this summer at the National Semiconductor plant in...
[January 13, 1998, 15:47]

