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White Papers

• Metrics for Major Initiatives
  Practices and Metrics for Lean, Total Quality, and Real Time Enterprise Programs.
• Enabling Operational Excellence with Performance Management
  This white paper explains how Medical Device organizations can leverage and extend their SAP applications into Manufacturing.
• Enterprise-Wide Data Collection for Superior Supply Chain Management
  How advanced bar code and related technologies can create sustainable advantages by providing the information required for modern business practices.
• ERP in Lean Manufacturing
  "I have been a convert to Lean Manufacturing (Toyota Production System) for the past 20 years – since my days as a Plant / General Manger of an automotive parts manufacturing company within the Authorized Ford Remanufacturing Program. Yet today as a Lean Manufacturing Consultant with over 12 years experience implementing lean in a wide range of companies from job shop to discrete manufacturing to process flow operations I am still amazed at the dramatic improvements that can be realized."
• Meeting the Challenge of Three Global Manufacturing Imperatives
  In today’s global economy, it is critical that manufacturers address all global issues immediately or they are unlikely to survive over the long term. The solutions must integrate existing manufacturing and enterprise business systems because these are the primary sources of the data that will ultimately drive the solutions.

Podcasts

• Manufacturing 2.0: Multi-Industry Case Studies: Improving Quality While Speeding Time to Market
  Manufacturing 2.0 has become a reality. Why implement this more collaborative model for your business? Join us to learn from case studies across multiple manufacturing industries and learn how you can reap the benefits.
• SAP - Critical Manufacturing Execution Strategies Podcast
  Learn about SAP(R) Manufacturing Execution by Visiprise, a robust application for manufacturing execution systems (MES) that can enhance shop floor visibility and operational control.

Webcasts

• Create a Knowledge-Driven Plant with Wireless Solutions
  September 10, 2008 at 2:00 PM EDT
  Explore how wireless solutions can turn more data into knowledge to improve business performance. This enabling technology helps manufacturers collect previously unavailable data, push decision-making into the field and accumulate knowledge across the entire enterprise. Register now.
• Untethered Terrain: Creating Competitive Advantage with a Flexible Mobile Infrastructure
  September 17, 2008 at 2:00 PM EDT
  Manufacturers are seeing the emergence of what some call “the third network”, which is the wireless infrastructure, a flexible architecture that includes any combination of cellular, RFID, and WiFi wireless protocols which provide follow-me connectivity. Find out how the technology has evolved to enable a new way of working—accessing any type of information anytime, anywhere, using any device. Register now