Managing Automation - June 2008 - (Page 63) Solarsoft Title: ERP IN LEAN MANUFACTURING Download: managingautomation.com/solarsoft Summary: I have been a convert to Lean Manufacturing (Toyota Production System) for the past 20 years — since my days as a Plant/ General Manager 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. Whatever the business sector — automotive, heavy industrial, aviation, beverage, or garment industries — the results of implementing lean have been the same: • Increased productivity • Increased quality • Increased gross margin • Reduced inventories • Reduced space requirements • Reduced lead times So why is it that I am continually running into companies that are either hesitant or downright negative towards implementing lean? I have spent the last year trying to get my arms around this issue and I have come up with the following conclusion. Read more on managingautomation.com. Stratus Title: CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY FOR SAP PERFECT PLANT ENVIRONMENTS Download: managingautomation.com/stratus5 Summary: SAP AG has taken an innovative business approach to delivering manufacturing integration and intelligence to the shop floor through a program called the Perfect Plant. The Perfect Plant program brings together best-of-breed solution partners — creating a technology ecosystem that delivers the functionality, integration, data synchronization, and certified platforms that enable companies to optimize their performance. In this paper Stratus Technologies, an SAP Global Technology Partner with a singular focus on ensuring end-to-end availability, describes best practices for the IT infrastructure required to deploy SAP Perfect Plant solutions. June 2008 63 http://managingautomation.com/solarsoft http://managingautomation.com http://managingautomation.com/stratus5
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Managing Automation - June 2008 Managing Automation - June 2008 Contents Take 1 SAP Cites Functionality, Cost Structure in Modified On-Demand Product Rollout Dassault Exec Predicts More PLM Consolidation The Blackberry Goes Native with SAP CRM QAD Brings MDM In-House with FullTilt Buy Power Experts Look to End Voltage Sags The Progressive Manufacturers Notes Cover Story: Playing the Globalization Game to Win Special Report Integration Transformation Industries Product Scan Advertiser Index Next Managing Automation - June 2008 Managing Automation - June 2008 - Managing Automation - June 2008 (Page Cover1) Managing Automation - June 2008 - Managing Automation - June 2008 (Page Cover2) Managing Automation - June 2008 - Contents (Page 3) Managing Automation - June 2008 - Contents (Page 4) Managing Automation - June 2008 - Contents (Page 5) Managing Automation - June 2008 - Take 1 (Page 6) Managing Automation - June 2008 - Take 1 (Page 7) Managing Automation - June 2008 - SAP Cites Functionality, Cost Structure in Modified On-Demand Product Rollout (Page 8) Managing Automation - June 2008 - Dassault Exec Predicts More PLM Consolidation (Page 9) Managing Automation - June 2008 - The Blackberry Goes Native with SAP CRM (Page 10) Managing Automation - June 2008 - The Blackberry Goes Native with SAP CRM (Page 11) Managing Automation - June 2008 - QAD Brings MDM In-House with FullTilt Buy (Page 12) Managing Automation - June 2008 - QAD Brings MDM In-House with FullTilt Buy (Page 13) Managing Automation - June 2008 - QAD Brings MDM In-House with FullTilt Buy (Page 14) Managing Automation - June 2008 - Power Experts Look to End Voltage Sags (Page 15) Managing Automation - June 2008 - The Progressive Manufacturers (Page 16) Managing Automation - June 2008 - The Progressive Manufacturers (Page 17) Managing Automation - June 2008 - Notes (Page 18) Managing Automation - June 2008 - Notes (Page 19) Managing Automation - June 2008 - Cover Story: Playing the Globalization Game to Win (Page 20) Managing Automation - 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