Click here to view the archive of past department articles Feature Articles December 2001 Turning Challenges into Opportunities Just how important can IT management be when times get tough? Kenemetal shows the way... Accelerating Innovation Hewlett-Packard's Operations group shows that implementing quick shifts in IT innovation is possible, even on a massive enterprise level. June, 1999 New Age Wizards Facilitate Global Commerce A flexible new breed of real estate developers meets the needs of businesses that trade internationally. May, 1999 Mid-sized Firms Face Rough Road with ERP Adoption According to one study, nearly half of the large companies which adopted enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems over the past five years experienced significant delays and cost overruns. Mid-sized companies are expected to fare even worse. Industry Report: High-Tech Manufacturers Reduce Inventory by 48 Percent in the Last 20 Years Between 1977 and 1997, the typical U.S. high-tech manufacturer nearly doubled its inventory performance - from 2.4 to 4.8 turns per year. December, 1998 Activity-Based Costing: A Decision-Making Tool Activity-based costing can help a manufacturer determine where costs are being incurred, what is initiating the costs and where to apply efforts to curb inflationary costs. June, 1998 Web Software Enables Virtual Extensions to Customer Plants Avex Electronics' new package, Total Interactive Manufacturing Environment (TIME), creates an electronic environment that is a virtual extension of its customers' factories. April, 1998 Get Ready to Welcome in the Era of the Virtual Customer The manufacturing sector is on the cusp of a new era, the "era of the virtual customer," where customers will surface any time, any place, and can disappear just as quickly. March, 1998 Lockheed Martin Implements New Data Exchnage Standard LMTAS has implemented STEP, an international data exchange standard that provides a universal format to share product data between companies, their suppliers and their customers. March, 1998 ERP Systems Promise a Quantum Leap Over MRPII Systems Manufacturers looking to improve supply chain management their order-to-delivery processes are turning to the new wave of ERP systems to replace their MRPII systems. January, 1998 Deneb Employs Agents for Virtual Manufacturing Project Deneb proposes to improve on existing factory scheduling systems by validating a new task scheduling and execution system in which intelligent software agents represent factory resources, systems and jobs. January, 1998 IBM's Server Group Takes the LEAD IBM's Server Group (Somers, N.Y.) won the 1997 LEAD (Leadership and Excellence in the Application and Development of enterprise-wide integrated manufacturing) industry award at the AUTOFACT '97 conference, held recently in Detroit. The Manufacturing Report © Copyright 1997-2001 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. E-mail Editorial Dept: tmr-editorial@lionhrtpub.com Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 2555 Cumberland Parkway, Suite 299, Atlanta, GA 30339 USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com