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Cover Story
A Rare Breed
by
Jeff Moad
Despite the difficulties of integrating plant floor systems with enterprise business systems, Celestica, Dairy Crest, and Portucel Viana are making significant headway.
Features
Where Are Control Architectures Heading? Main Street
by
Stephanie Neil
Standards-based control architectures are pushing open the factory doors and driving manufacturing data out into the mainstream of enterprise activity.
Back to Reality
by
Chris Chiappinelli
Manufacturers forging ahead with sales and operations planning would do well to remember that a realistic view of the business goes a long way.
Getting Standards Under One Roof
by
Stephanie Neil
Standards organizations are cooperating under initiatives, such as OpenO&M, that allow for sharing information. Such efforts promise to ease application integration for manufacturers..
Under the OpenO&M Umbrella
The Quest for the Perfect Order
by
Marty Weil
Saddled with a mishmash of systems, many manufacturers see perfect order performance as an impossible dream. New order management and integration tools, however, can help bring improvements..
Commentary
Take 1
In Search of Perfection
by
David R. Brousell
Is it possible to achieve the "perfect plant" in which shop-floor-to-top-floor integration lives? It is, if an SAP-backed group has anything to say about it.
Notes
Performance Anxiety?
by
Joshua Greenbaum
Before you pay good money for the latest in performance management software, think rationally about how you might use the information you'd gain.
Next
The Digital Devolution
by
Robert Malone
Modern technology has given us nearly instantaneous access to information, but we don't seem to have figured out how to act on it quickly.
Product Scan
March 2008 Product Scan
by
MA Editorial Staff
Managing Automation
's Product Scan is a round-up of some of the latest tools available to help you run your manufacturing business, from the shop floor to the top floor and beyond.
Monthly Web Exclusive
Directory Listings Update - March 2008
by
Diane Himes
A monthly Web Exclusive feature highlighting recent additions and updates to
Managing Automation
's online product directory.
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