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INDUSTRY NEWS FULL COVERAGE MA NEWSLETTER TO SUBSCRIBE GO TO OF EVENTS AND ANALYSIS WWW.MANAGINGAUTOMATION.COM managingautomation.com Alliances, Executive Appointments, Mergers & Acquisitions, Products news For the maonline in perspective BY STEPHANIE NEIL Record APPOINTMENTS Camstar to Introduce Software That Combines Quality, MES, and Intelligence The Electric Drives and Controls group of Bosch Rexroth Corp. named Ted Thayer PLC and HMI product manager. Forte, a supply chain consulting and systems integration firm, promoted Andrew Breckenridge to president. Honeywell Process Solutions EMEA appointed Norman Gilsdorf to vice president and general manager. Intermec, Inc. named Dennis Faerber senior vice president of global supply chain operations. Sensorlogic tapped Greg Jones as vice president of marketing and business development. C CONTRACTS Coca-Cola Bottling Co. upgraded its JDA Software Group Inc. supply chain management software to version 7.4 to improve forecast accuracy, customer service levels, order fill rates, and ontime deliveries. Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology deployed Kinaxis Inc.’s RapidResponse across its global supply chain. Procter & Gamble Co. is installing O4 Corp.’s mobile software worldwide with an eye toward increasing its retail sales force productivity. Continued on page 11 amstar Systems Inc. is attempting to with siloed solutions, already. Their processes redefine what a manufacturing execuare end-to-end and cross functional boundaries tion system is and, in the process, they need a solution that reflects their reality,” reinvent itself as a company dedicated said Karim Lokas, Camstar’s vice president of to enterprise quality execution. marketing and product strategy. Quality is an important part of manufacturCamstar will unveil its next-generation MES ing, but it is often not executed properly. To product — which was 14 months in the making— date, quality measures have been bolted on this month at its global customer conference in and many times occur after proFlorida. The product, called Camduction happens. According to star’s Platform for Manufacturing, AMR Research, this results in Quality and Intelligence, inteexcessive rework and scrap, grates MES and quality, and adds high product inventories, low intelligence and business process plant utilization, and protracted management. The applications are and unpredictable cycle times. based on a unified data model and Now, due to product recalls, services-oriented architecture Food and Drug Administration (SOA) Web services. mandates, and high customer Pulling these applications tostandards, quality management gether so that MES and quality has become a priority for manucan be managed in a holistic busiKarim Lokas facturers. ness process-centric way is an Camstar said it has been listening to customer industry first, observers said. The announcecries for a better way to manage the production ment will likely result in similar offerings from process, which needs to be tightly linked with Camstar competitors, analysts predicted. corrective and preventive action (CAPA) capabil“MES has always been a good, broad conities. “The reason why we are launching this is becept, but by including quality and intelligence, it cause the marketplace said they’ve had enough really provides a more controlled and informed Manufacturers Tap MES for Plant-Enterprise Integration Manufacturers are placing greater emphasis on closing the gap between plant floor and enterprise systems. Of 150 companies surveyed in 2007 in North America and Western Europe, 61% said they planned to link the disparate environments or were already investing in doing so, Datamonitor reported. Toward that end, the research firm predicted, manufacturers will spend $2.5 billion on traditional MES software and services by 2012, up from $950 million in 2006. “We’re seeing significant expenditure on both traditional manufacturing execution systems (MES), as well as newer manufacturing intelligence solutions. In doing so, companies hope to improve their scheduling, supply chain interactions, and performance monitoring capabilities,” Datamonitor said. The firm noted that the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and chemical markets are the biggest spenders now, but discrete industries will increase their share in 2009. As for the vendor pool, acquisitions will continue apace, with vendors focused on industries subject to increasing regulation being the most attractive takeover targets. NUMBERS Batch Manufacturing Will Lead Spending for MES through 2012 3,000 Process 2,500 ($ U.S. Millions) 2,000 1,500 1,000 500 0 Source: Datamonitor Batch Discrete BY THE 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 ma 8 2008 April http://www.managingautomation.com http://www.managingautomation.com

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Managing Automation - April 2008 Contents Take 1 Camstar to Introduce Software that Combines Quality, MES, and Intelligence SAP Revamps Maintenance, Raises Fees 29% New TAGSYS Chief Sees Opportunity in Broader Approach Siemens Turns to Security Weaver for Compliance Supply Chain Company Takes Next Step in U.S. Notes Cover Story: The Long Climb Special Report - Undertanding Enterprise Performance Management Caught Between Supply and Demand Taking Off the Blindfold No Room for Error Product Scan Advertiser Index Next

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