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07-08 PRODUCT SCAN ments. The product’s new user interface features pull-down menus and context popup menus. The software includes support for Navigator 3D mouse devices in Show Path toolpath and machining sequence verification. A new tutorial in SmartCAM V15.0 presents a SmartCAM overview, fundamentals, advanced topics, and information on automating SmartCAM with macros and custom panels, and working with code generation. www.managingautomation.com/SmartCam Contact Info Editorial product consideration: Diane Himes Senior Web Editor 212-560-1849 dhimes@thomaspublishing.com M anaging Automation’s Product Scan is a roundup of some of the latest tools available to help you run your manufacturing business, from the shop floor to the top floor and beyond. This format facilitates a connection to the TechMATCH product directories at ManagingAutomation.com, where you will find a wealth of information on the vendors relevant to your business as well as product and contact information that can jumpstart your technology selection process. You’ll notice a link to ManagingAutomation.com associated with each of the product descriptions in this section. Follow that connection for actionable information on the company and its products. For a look at how you can compare various products through MA’s TechMATCH online product comparison tool (www.managingautomation.com/ comparisontool), see the sidebar on p. 43. For example, see the MES product listings most often viewed through TechMATCH in the sidebar on p. 42. And this month’s product listings update provides a look at the latest developments in MA’s TechMATCH product directories (managingautomation.com/Directory18). ately, priced from $150 per user. www.managingautomation.com/Actuate TAGSYS RFID UHF TAG FAMILY AGSYS, a provider of RFID infrastructure, has unveiled the RFID UHF TRAK Tag Family, specialized for item-level track-andtrace applications. The tags include technology that reduces RFID “shadowing” and “detuning” phenomena that can result when one tag in close proximity to another blocks the signal from a reader antenna. Each of four UHF TRAK tags in the family — DocTRAK, RapidTRAK, SureTRAK, and RxTRAK — matches up with distinct item-level application environments. T LOMBARDI SOFTWARE INC. BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT ombardi Software Inc. has added a version of its Blueprint business process management tool that allows any drawing created in Microsoft Visio to be easily incorporated into a Blueprint Professional Edition L ACTUATE CORP. www.managingautomation.com/Tagsys SMARTCAMCNC COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION PLATFORM ctuate Corp. has redefined its rich Internet application (RIA)-ready information platform to enable users to access data more easily. The Actuate 9 Service Pack 3 features a collaborative reporting architecture so that customers, partners, and employees can personalize data views as they create new analytic perspectives. The product incorporates report types and other capabilities of the latest open source business intelligence release, BIRT 2.2. The Actuate 9 SP3 release enables BI and reporting applications to be developed quickly and deployed economically to small and large audiences, the company said. The company has added iServer Express to this release, a report server that can be deployed in less than an hour and hosts BIRT, BIRT Interactive Viewer, BusinessReport Studio, e.Spreadsheet, and Information Objects. Actuate 9 SP3 is available immedi- COMPUTER-AIDED MANUFACTURING S martCAMcnc has updated its SmartCAM application with a tutorial module that makes learning how to use the computeraided manufacturing system easier. SmartCAM V15.0 improves the ability to create and modify toolpath lead-in and lead-out moves. The company also built in user interface and viewing and visualization improve- A account. The Blueprint Spring 08 release of the business process mapping tool, available on-demand, includes usability improvements and panning and zooming functionality. Among the usability improvements is new inline diagramming, which replaces an inefficient drag-and-drop palette approach and lets users create process diagrams more quickly. The release also enables users to collapse subprocesses on a process drawing for simplified viewing. In addition, the tool supports the extraction of subprocesses from existing models for export into new, reusable processes. www.managingautomation.com/Lombardi 41 July 2008 http://www.managingautomation.com/comparisontool http://www.managingautomation.com/comparisontool http://ManagingAutomation.com http://managingautomation.com/Directory18 http://www.managingautomation.com/Actuate http://www.managingautomation.com/SmartCam http://www.managingautomation.com/Tagsys http://www.managingautomation.com/Lombardi

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Managing Automation- July 2008 Contents Take 1 HP's Acquisition of EDS May Face Integration, Global Delivery Challenges Rimini Plans to Woo SAP Support Users Rockwell Steps Up Its Activities in Software Microsoft Targets the Process of Innovation Supply Chain Standouts Honored by AMR Notes Who Are Today's Influential Thinkers? The Robot Revolution Is the Price Right? Without a Trace Harvesting the Suggestion Box Product Scan Advertiser Index Next

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