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Increase Profits and Productivity while delivering products to market faster than your competition When: May 21, 2008 2:00PM –Do you want to beat your competition to market? Join us and learn how Oracle's Agile PLM can help you reduce time to market, cycle time, improve product quality and regulatory compliance. [sponsored by Oracle Corp.]

How Manufacturers Can Leverage the Power of Pricing to Increase Profits When: May 14, 2008 2:00PM –How do you find ways to improve profits in these difficult market conditions? Learn practical fixes that you can quickly leverage to improve your profits. Also get insights into the role that technology can play in improving margins. [sponsored by Vendavo]

Flying by Wire: Airbus’ Digitally Managed Supply Chain ON DEMAND NOW –Fly By Wire: Inside Airbus' Digitally Managed Supply Chain [sponsored by OATSystems Inc.]

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1. Increase Profits and Productivity while delivering products to market faster than your competition
   Do you want to beat your competition to market? Join us and learn how Oracle's Agile PLM can help you reduce time to market, cycle time, improve product quality and regulatory compliance. [sponsored by Oracle Corp.]
2. Flying by Wire: Airbus’ Digitally Managed Supply Chain
   Fly By Wire: Inside Airbus' Digitally Managed Supply Chain [sponsored by OATSystems Inc.]
3. Where Progressive Manufacturing Becomes Revenue
   Learn how a company's processes and systems can work together for efficient delivery of the right product, at the right price, to the right destination, at the right time...to maximize revenue and avoid unnecessary costs. View NOW and receive a complimentary "Essential Integration for the Mid-Size Enterprise" whitepaper. [sponsored by EXTOL International Inc.]
4. How Manufacturers Can Leverage the Power of Pricing to Increase Profits
   How do you find ways to improve profits in these difficult market conditions? Learn practical fixes that you can quickly leverage to improve your profits. Also get insights into the role that technology can play in improving margins. [sponsored by Vendavo]
5. 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. [sponsored by Intercim Inc.]
6. Rapid and Affordable ERP Solutions for Midsize Manufacturers from IBM and SAP
   Many mid-size businesses don't realize that a full-scale enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution can be implemented in as little as 16 weeks. Learn how Audio-Technica, an industry leader in audio equipment, is implementing the IBM Express Fab and Assembly Solution, a qualified SAP Business All-in-One Solution, to seamlessly integrate manufacturing business processes to support growth and reduce cost. [sponsored by IBM Corp.]
7. Driving an Integrated Sales and Operations Planning Process: The Constar International Story
   Join us for a candid case study and panel-style Q&A that will help you understand how to build the agile, accurate S&OP process you really want. [sponsored by Cognos, an IBM company]
8. Ask the Experts: Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Trends and Strategies with AMR Research
   With the latest AMR Research spending report and other recent research as the backdrop, Alison Smith, Senior Research Analyst and Jeff Hojlo, Research Analyst will explore the latest trends and strategies driving manufacturers to focus on their manufacturing operations for improvements. [sponsored by Visiprise Inc.]
9. Flexing Your Workforce: Maintaining Labor Effectiveness During Volatile Demand
   In this informative program, learn how manufacturers are improving resource utilization and balancing business demands with the desires of the workforce. [sponsored by Kronos Inc.]
10. PM Summit Video Broadcast 2007 - Live from Las Vegas
    The 3rd Annual Progressive Manufacturing Summit will dive deep into critical issues such as Operational Excellence, Lean Manufacturing & Six Sigma, The Mobile Enterprise, Connecting to the Customer, Harvesting Business Intelligence and much more. This broadcast will begin on June 13th at 8:30am PT / 12:30pm EDT. [sponsored by Managing Automation]

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Achieving Operational Excellence within Mill Products Manufacturing Environments
Mill Products companies face strong business and manufacturing challenges to remain globally competitive and adaptable to changing market conditions while continuing to drive costs out of the business. These challenges come from many sources, including globalization, industry consolidation, customer-centric production strategies and inventory optimization strategies associated with the supply chain. [sponsored by Apriso Corp.]
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The Need for SOA to Achieve Flexibility and Agility within Plant Operations
The way in which manufacturers worldwide operate is evolving from reacting to demand - to anticipating and collaborating with trading partners. Manufacturers continue to face pressures to adapt their operations for rapid changes between different phases of the product life cycle as these life cycles shrink dramatically. [sponsored by Apriso Corp.]
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Augmenting the Value of ERP with an Operations Execution System
In order to remain globally competitive, implement continuous improvement initiatives and adhere to complex traceability requirements for regulatory compliance, manufacturers recognize that a nominal investment in an Operations Execution system can pay handsome rewards and incremental ROI on heavy investments already applied to ERP deployments. [sponsored by Apriso Corp.]
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• Continuous Availability for SAP Perfect Plant Environments

• Overcoming Barriers in Supply Chain Performance

• Control the Shop Floor and Integrate Production with your Enterprise

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1. The Lean Workforce: Applying Lean principles to improve workforce management
   Using Lean principles, manufacturers have made significant improvements to their operations, from improved productivity, increased resource utilization, to a more accurate understanding of product costs. [sponsored by Kronos Inc.]
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2. Blast Past Bottlenecks with Constraint Based Scheduling
   Lumpy demand due to seasonality or business cycle. Limited capacity in part of a plant. Skilled labor shortages. These and a number of other problems can be solved with constraint-based scheduling, also referred to as finite scheduling. Learn the basics of constraint-based scheduling including optimal, predictive and interactive scheduling. [sponsored by IFS]
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3. Lean Enterprise Development in Engineer to Order Companies
   Learn how IFS Business Modeler and IFS Applications bring the lean disciplines normally associated with repetitive manufacturing to engineer to order companies. When information crosses departmental lines fluidly, take time and kaizen apply to ETO office activities like specifying, estimating and engineering and then extend on to the shop floor. [sponsored by IFS]
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4. Overall Labor Effectiveness (OLE): Achieving a Highly Effective Workforce
   This white paper will provide a description of Overall Labor Effectiveness (OLE) and discuss how to use it as a tool to improve the overall effectiveness of the labor force. [sponsored by Kronos Inc.]
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5. Extending the Lean Enterprise – An Aberdeen Report
   Aberdeen Group is seeing a host of new approaches to implementing and sustaining Lean that are industry and often enterprise specific. Is your company using these approaches? [sponsored by Infor]
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6. The importance of execution: 5 reason why you need Lean MES now
   Can you maintain high level performance required in today’s highly demanding environment without MES? [sponsored by Infor]
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7. 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." [sponsored by Solarsoft Business Systems]
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8. Control the Shop Floor and Integrate Production with your Enterprise
   With the SAP® Manufacturing Execution application by Visiprise, you can now control and execute shop-floor production and facilitate information flow throughout the enterprise. [sponsored by SAP America]
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9. Continuous Availability for SAP Perfect Plant Environments
   Stratus describes best practices for the IT infrastructure required to deploy SAP Perfect Plant solutions. [sponsored by Stratus Technologies]
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10. How principles of lean manufacturing transfer benefits to Operations
    In the last several years, the manufacturing sector has moved from vertically organized structures to horizontal organizations; that is, a single company no longer controls its product from, let’s say, the mine to the store shelf. Instead, today’s companies control only pieces of the supply chain, and the companies and divisions controlling those various components may be located just about anywhere in the world. [sponsored by Epicor Software Corp.]
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Geiger ready mix
This case study discusses how Geiger Ready mix uses the Kronos Workforce Central suite solution. [sponsored by ]
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Weir Valves & Controls Speeds up its Operations with Lawson M3
By implementing Lawson M3, Weir Valves & Controls has acquired a unified ERP. [sponsored by Lawson Software]
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Cherasia Limited - Customer Profile
Is information accuracy and access major issues in your company? Learn how Cherasia Limited solved their issues. [sponsored by Infor]
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• Colonial Mills, Inc - Customer Profile

• Orchid International eliminates shipping errors and significantly strengthens inventory accuracy, enterprise-wide control and supplier management with Solarsoft iVP.

• Morey’s Piers Improves Maintenance & Inspection Performance

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1. Complete Integration: Plexus Online helps Honda supplier TOMASCO mulciber, Inc. integrate systems
   Plagued by EDI problems, inventory issues and short shipments, TOMASCO, a Japanese joint venture company for the Honda supplier system, finally decided it was time for a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. [sponsored by Plexus Systems]
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2. Morey’s Piers Improves Maintenance & Inspection Performance
   Morey’s Piers implemented TabWare EFX from AssetPoint in the spring of 2007 to replace an older CMMS they had in place for 10 years that did not have sufficient functionality to support their current and planned operations. [sponsored by AssetPoint - An Integrys Company]
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3. Plexus Online Allows Precision Global Systems To Expand While Minimizing Costs and Personnel In All Three Divisions
   When OEMs have trouble with a production run and want to recover the assembly or the costly components, they turn to a unique state-of-the-art company called Precision Global Systems (PGS) in Troy, MI. [sponsored by Plexus Systems]
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4. Nonconformance Management
   To comply with GMP's, and to decrease the cost of poor quality, nonconforming materials and processes must be readily visible, enforceable, easy to analyze, and fully traceable to their origins. [sponsored by Camstar Systems Inc.]
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5. BAE Systems: Delivering quality and data accuracy through integration
   Visiprise Customer BAE Systems Reaches Significant Goal Achievements for its JSF F35 Lightning II Project. [sponsored by Visiprise Inc.]
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6. Cherasia Limited - Customer Profile
   Is information accuracy and access major issues in your company? Learn how Cherasia Limited solved their issues. [sponsored by Infor]
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7. Sterling Commerce helps Seagate Technology reduce order errors, decrease costs and capitalize on new revenue opportunities
   This case study examines how Seagate Technology was able to reduce order errors, decrease costs and capitalize on new revenue opportunities using eBusiness solutions. [sponsored by Sterling Commerce ]
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8. Sterling Commerce helps manage orders and purchases across all product lines around the world
   This case study examines how, using eBusiness solutions as their internal and external order management system, Applied Biosystems has improved the management of their orders and purchases across all of their product lines and around the world. [sponsored by Sterling Commerce ]
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9. iVP: Solarsoft Business Systems' ERP solution for Supply Chain Intensive Manufacturing
   In today's supply chains, it's not just cliche, it's cold, hard fact. For suppliers, the expectations are high and the price for failing to meet them even higher. [sponsored by Solarsoft Business Systems]
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10. Champion Plastics Attracts a New Customer Segment After Using Plexus Online to Modernize its EDI
    When Champion Plastics, Inc. landed a coveted Harley Davidson account, owners Mike and Matt McDermott knew they couldn't afford any missteps, especially with their EDI. [sponsored by Plexus Systems]
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Featured videos from the 2006 Progressive Manufacturing Summit

• Fly By Wire: Inside Airbus'' Digitally Managed Supply Chain
  Fly By Wire: Inside Airbus' Digitally Managed Supply Chain
• 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.
• Where Progressive Manufacturing Becomes Revenue
  Learn how a company's processes and systems can work together for efficient delivery of the right product, at the right price, to the right destination, at the right time...to maximize revenue and avoid unnecessary costs. View NOW and receive a complimentary "Essential Integration for the Mid-Size Enterprise" whitepaper.
• Exact Software Event Manager
  Listen to how businesses solve the critical need of identifying their key information through the use of event manager software.
• Vanguard GPS and ESNA EBA
  Maximize your business analysis and reporting capabilities and get the most out of your ERP system with Business Analytics.

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1. Fly By Wire: Inside Airbus'' Digitally Managed Supply Chain
   Fly By Wire: Inside Airbus' Digitally Managed Supply Chain [sponsored by OATSystems Inc.]
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2. Exact Software Event Manager
   Listen to how businesses solve the critical need of identifying their key information through the use of event manager software. [sponsored by Exact Software]
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3. Exact Software Beyond ERP
   Take your organization to the next level by extending access to all company information to the entire organization, making information available at any time instantly from coast to coast to around the world. [sponsored by Exact Software]
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4. Vanguard GPS and ESNA EBA
   Maximize your business analysis and reporting capabilities and get the most out of your ERP system with Business Analytics. [sponsored by Exact Software]
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5. 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. [sponsored by Intercim Inc.]
   Summary | Download now |
6. Where Progressive Manufacturing Becomes Revenue
   Learn how a company's processes and systems can work together for efficient delivery of the right product, at the right price, to the right destination, at the right time...to maximize revenue and avoid unnecessary costs. View NOW and receive a complimentary "Essential Integration for the Mid-Size Enterprise" whitepaper. [sponsored by EXTOL International Inc.]
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7. Integrated Manufacturing Operations Podcast
   A conversation with Visiprise about the role that integrated manufacturing operations plays in manufacturing. [sponsored by Visiprise Inc.]
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8. Flexing Your Workforce: Maintaining Labor Effectiveness During Volatile Demand
   In this informative program, learn how manufacturers are improving resource utilization and balancing business demands with the desires of the workforce. [sponsored by Kronos Inc.]
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9. Webcast Audio Clip Sample: Wireless Manufacturing 101
   The panel discusses wireless strategy, so that the approach is not piecemeal but is truly strategic. Audio Length: 4 minutes 5 seconds
   You can also access the on-demand webcast to review a list of all audio clips available. [sponsored by Sprint Nextel]
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10. Taking the Product Information Management PIM Path on the MDM Journey
    Download this podcast now to learn how to treat product management mandates as strategic opportunities; How to think Master Data Management (MDM); deploy PIM; Tactical PIM is the cost of doing business; broader MDM is the cost of doing business more profitably and competitively; How to build a technology foundation geared for long-term goals; and the A, B, C's of making it happen. [sponsored by FullTilt Solutions]
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11. How to Get Ready for Product Information Standards in the Automotive Aftermarket - Podcast
    Download this Podcast to learn "What is PIES?" and be able to identify its business value in the Automotive Aftermarket industry. You will be able to identify if your company is ready to support PIES and ACES standards requirements and what current technology and best practices can help you achieve a competitive advantage. Length: 52 Minutes [sponsored by ]
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12. Webcast Audio Clip Sample: Customizing Deployments
    The nature of enterprise wireless networks is such that cookie-cutter approaches are ill-advised. This means customized approaches for every deployment, a strategy that not every vendor is comfortable with. Audio Length: 1 minute 23 seconds
    You can also access the on-demand webcast to review a list of all audio clips available. [sponsored by Sprint Nextel]
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13. Webcast Audio Clip Sample: Just Good Enough No Longer Will Suffice
    Some IT execs have gotten used to deploying minimized wireless, where line-of-business managers are given just enough to get by. That's not going to work any more. Audio Length: 1 minute 35 seconds
    You can also access the on-demand webcast to review a list of all audio clips available. [sponsored by Sprint Nextel]
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Featured Research Reports

• E2open Delivers the Goods in Value Chain Collaboration
  Mar 18 2008 11:50AM–E2open has helped high-tech leaders achieve some amazing results. How did it manage this fast, innovative, and customer-driven environment and still make money? [sponsored by E2open ]
• Lean Scheduling and Execution Industry Benchmark Report
  Sep 13 2007 4:55PM–What are the operational performance benefits that 'Best in Class' manufacturers are currently enjoying due to the adoption of Lean scheduling and execution principles? Find out the metrics and the results behind this Benchmark Report by Aberdeen. [sponsored by Infor]
• Aberdeen Report - The 2007 ERP in Manufacturing
  Sep 11 2007 3:00PM–How Top Manufacturers get the most out of their ERP/MRP solutions ? Get the report now ! [sponsored by Infor]
• Aberdeen Report - Lean Scheduling and Execution
  Sep 11 2007 2:50PM–What are the operational performance benefits that 'Best in Class' manufacturers are currently enjoying due to the adoption of Lean scheduling and execution principles? Find out the metrics and the results behind this Benchmark Report by Aberdeen. [sponsored by Infor]
• Aberdeen Report - Integrated Transportation Management
  Sep 11 2007 11:30AM–Integrated Transportation Management: How Best in Class companies reduce spend and improve on delivery time [sponsored by Infor]
• Collaborative Asset Maintenance Strategies - Aberdeen Benchmark Report
  Sep 10 2007 4:10PM–Read this Benchmark Report to get the key strategies for effective Maintenance Operations and get ready to implement specific recommendations for asset maintenance improvement. [sponsored by Infor]
• MES to Regain Control in Outsourced Operations
  [sponsored by Camstar Systems Inc.]
• Reducing Risk with State-of-the-Art MES
  [sponsored by Camstar Systems Inc.]
• Lean Benchmark Report: Closing the Reality Gap - Plexus
  Jan 5 2007 9:00AM–Although C-level executives are enthusiastic about the benefits that can be derived by "Leaning out" operations, this study uncovered a large performance gap between those companies that are simply using Lean techniques on the shop floor versus those that have built a culture based on Lean thinking. [sponsored by Plexus Systems]
• Speaking Perfect PIM - Product Information Management
  Nov 1 2006 9:10AM–Here's an executive guide to the terms, technologies and concepts that lead to perfect product information. [sponsored by ]

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Download your SAPPHIRE® Orlando Perfect Plant Game Card
Enter the Perfect Plant game and learn how the Stratus fault-tolerant platform can help. Visit Stratus at Sapphire Orlando (booth #1186) to see the perfect SAP IT infrastructure. Pick up a Perfect Plant Game Card for a chance to win one of ten 30GB Zune MP3 players or download your game card now! [sponsored by Stratus Technologies]
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Lawson Manufacturing
The simpler and better solution for increased profitability across your entire supply chain. [sponsored by Lawson Software]
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Meeting Local, Regional, and Country Regulations: How Technology Can Help
Running a successful business means complying with a variety of regulations: financial and tax; industry; security; and health and safety. [sponsored by ]
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• SAP® xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (xMII) Composite Application

• Infor Syteline - Overview Datasheet

• Biometric Solutions - Bringing You the Future Today

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1. 7 Reports Every Supply Chain Executive Needs
   If you want powerful insights, you have to ask the right questions. Understand which seven critical reports you need to maximize your supply chain management strategy. [sponsored by Cognos, an IBM company]
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2. EnterpriseIQ Intelligent Enterprise Software
   IQMS's EnterpriseIQ ERP software delivers proven ROI where it matters most: profits, communication, and time. [sponsored by IQMS]
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3. IQS Quality Performance Management System eBrochure
   IQS delivers quality from a product life cycle perspective. [sponsored by IQS Inc. (Integrated Quality Systems Inc.)]
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4. Infor Syteline - Overview Datasheet
   : Infor ERP SyteLine provides the foundation to improve business efficiency, customer service, and overall manufacturing productivity for a broad range of industries including metal fabrication, industrial equipment and machinery, and high-tech and electronics. [sponsored by Infor]
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5. Lawson Manufacturing
   The simpler and better solution for increased profitability across your entire supply chain. [sponsored by Lawson Software]
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6. Download your SAPPHIRE® Orlando Perfect Plant Game Card
   Enter the Perfect Plant game and learn how the Stratus fault-tolerant platform can help. Visit Stratus at Sapphire Orlando (booth #1186) to see the perfect SAP IT infrastructure. Pick up a Perfect Plant Game Card for a chance to win one of ten 30GB Zune MP3 players or download your game card now! [sponsored by Stratus Technologies]
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7. SAP® xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (xMII) Composite Application
   SAP xApp and Stratus ftServer datasheet [sponsored by Stratus Technologies]
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8. AutoTime 6: Workforce Scheduling
   Kaba's scheduling solution automates the process of matching the demand for resources with specific qualifications, preferences and work rules and scheduling the workforce to fulfill demand, while controlling operational and labor costs. [sponsored by Kaba Workforce Solutions]
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9. Data Collection Terminals
   Kaba offers a wide range of data collection devices that allow users to select the data collection solution most appropriate for their specific enviroment. [sponsored by Kaba Workforce Solutions]
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10. Biometric Solutions - Bringing You the Future Today
    Kaba is the trendsetter in data collection and opts for biometrics as a modern alternative. [sponsored by Kaba Workforce Solutions]
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