manufacturing
RSS manufacturingIngersoll Rand Increases Business Agility With Microsoft Online Services
White Paper The company conducts manufacturing and assembly operations in 29 plants in the United States; 31 plants in Europe; 14 plants in Asia; 6 plants in Latin America and 1 plant in Canada. Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited is a... [16 Nov 2009]
IT Perspective on Industrial Wireless Security
White Paper With increased economic pressures, continuing advancement of cost-effective wireless technology, and standardization on the horizon, it's clear it is at the tipping point for wireless to have a real impact in the industrial... [13 Nov 2009]
The ROI of Data Loss Prevention
White Paper IP is the heart of today's technology, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and even financial firms, and their most coveted sustainable advantage. One data loss incident can result in continuous cost. After making affected... [13 Nov 2009]
The All-Wireless Workplace Is Now Open for Business: Using 802.11n as Your Primary Network LAN Deployments
White Paper Wi-Fi infrastructure for manufacturing and retail organizations, hotels, universities and schools is already a $1 billion market, with annual growth in double digits. Wi-Fi technology has been steadily improving for some... [12 Nov 2009]
Evolving Standards for Managed File Transfer: Do Recent Secure File Transfer Standards Measure Up?
White Paper Combinations of these standards have been used in solutions often deployed by financial institutions, healthcare companies, government organizations and large enterprises in manufacturing, retail, high-tech, and other... [12 Nov 2009]
UHF Gen 2: Deep and Wide, Near and Far
White Paper A brief survey of UHF near-field RFID deployments in retail, textiles, and pharmaceuticals illustrates the many solutions that are already producing tremendous results from the manufacturing floor to the point of sale. [12 Nov 2009]
OPC Security White Paper #2: OPC Exposed
White Paper Off late, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), process control and industrial manufacturing systems have increasingly relied on commercial Information Technologies (IT) such as Ethernet, Transmission Control... [11 Nov 2009]
A Robust Industrial Ethernet Infrastructure Consisting of Environmentally Hardened Network Cabling, Connectivity, and Active Components Is Essential to Long-Term Performance and Reliability
White Paper This convergence of open, standards-based Ethernet communications provides all the advantages of secure, seamless interoperability among manufacturing enterprise networks - from corporate offices to the shop floor - and... [11 Nov 2009]
Whose IT budget has been hit the hardest?
News Financial services is not making the steepest cuts, however: that honour goes to the agriculture mining and construction industry with a 9.2 per cent year-on-year fall, followed by the discrete manufacturing industry... [04 Nov 2009]
What Is Formal Project Management and Who Needs It?
White Paper Over the past 15 years, project management as a profession has migrated from construction and manufacturing into virtually all other business sectors, including the IT sector. The Project Management Institute (PMI) and... [03 Nov 2009]
Crossing the Valley of Death
White Paper Today, the 'Valley of Death' is the name given to the gap between the great plains of research funding and the orange groves of manufacturing. Manufacturers, on the other hand, would prefer to see a... [26 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo CEO Paul Otellini showed off Intel's first wafer of silicon chips made with a new 22-nanometre manufacturing process. Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a selection of... [02 Oct 2009]
Managing Business-Critical Print Devices in Manufacturing and Distribution Operations: How a Seamless Output Management Strategy Delivers Ultimate Value to Business-Critical Processes
White Paper This white paper focuses on why manufacturing and distribution operations need to re-assess how they view the management of their output devices and how they can realize the benefits of a fully managed output fleet. [02 Oct 2009]
Harvest Foods Reduces Purchasing Costs by 30% With Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
White Paper Harvest Foods wanted to integrate multiple disparate modules for financial systems across the company's two manufacturing facilities and reduce generation times for standard financial reports, such as trial balance. [02 Oct 2009]
Window Maker Optimizes Infrastructure to Increase Agility and Efficiency, Lower Costs
White Paper As its product lines expanded, manufacturing plants multiplied, and competition stiffened, Pella found it difficult to promptly meet customer needs. Pella Corporation has been a respected window and door maker for more... [02 Oct 2009]
