Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - (Page 24) S PECIAL REPORT The MESA trade group hopes that its guidebooks on five corporate initiatives, due to be available at its autumn meeting in Prague, will finally vault MES technology into the pantheon of business software. 24 September 2008 Photo: Peter Zurek i BY MARK HALPER n a few years’ time, manufacturing executives might have to start commemorating Sept. 17 as annual “IT union day.” That was the day in 2007 when industry group MESA declared once and for all that factory floor data would finally become a vital asset for corporate decision makers. MESA’s new pièce de résistance in its longtime push to feed shop floor information into enterprise systems would be a collection of five guidebooks that walk executives through an aspirational set of five key objectives that business leaders would reach by infusing shop floor data into ERP and other corporate systems. No manufacturing CEO could deny the strategic importance of these objectives, which call for optimizing asset performance management, lean manufacturing, quality and regulatory compliance, product lifecycle management, and the real-time enterprise. “If you look at the five strategic initiatives, they come from the very top of the enterprise,” says Jan Snoeij, chairman of MESA’s European arm and principal consultant at Logica’s MES Centre of Excellence in Armhem, Holland. “Software and sys-
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 Contents Editor's Letter Opinion By David Humphrey Starters Road Trip Part 1: Innovation or Efficiency? Part 2: The Innovation Gap Opinion By Lisa Bodell Special Report: Great Aspirations Supply Chain: The New Money Machine Product Design: Fruehauf Gets into High Gear with 3D CAD Business Intelligence: Food Distributor Turns Up the Heat on Manufacturers Software: Manufacturers Face SaaS Hurdles Dialogue Opinion By Pierfrancesco Manenti Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 (Page Cover1) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 (Page Cover2) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Contents (Page 3) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Editor's Letter (Page 4) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Editor's Letter (Page 5) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Opinion By David Humphrey (Page 6) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Opinion By David Humphrey (Page 7) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Starters (Page 8) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Starters (Page 9) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Road Trip (Page 10) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Road Trip (Page 11) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Part 1: Innovation or Efficiency? (Page 12) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Part 1: Innovation or Efficiency? (Page 13) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Part 1: Innovation or Efficiency? (Page 14) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Part 1: Innovation or Efficiency? (Page 15) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Part 1: Innovation or Efficiency? (Page 16) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Part 2: The Innovation Gap (Page 17) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Part 2: The Innovation Gap (Page 18) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Part 2: The Innovation Gap (Page 19) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Opinion By Lisa Bodell (Page 20) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Opinion By Lisa Bodell (Page 21) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Opinion By Lisa Bodell (Page 22) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Opinion By Lisa Bodell (Page 23) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Special Report: Great Aspirations (Page 24) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Special Report: Great Aspirations (Page 25) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Special Report: Great Aspirations (Page 26) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Special Report: Great Aspirations (Page 27) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Supply Chain: The New Money Machine (Page 28) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Supply Chain: The New Money Machine (Page 29) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Supply Chain: The New Money Machine (Page 30) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Supply Chain: The New Money Machine (Page 31) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Product Design: Fruehauf Gets into High Gear with 3D CAD (Page 32) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Product Design: Fruehauf Gets into High Gear with 3D CAD (Page 33) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Business Intelligence: Food Distributor Turns Up the Heat on Manufacturers (Page 34) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Business Intelligence: Food Distributor Turns Up the Heat on Manufacturers (Page 35) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Software: Manufacturers Face SaaS Hurdles (Page 36) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Software: Manufacturers Face SaaS Hurdles (Page 37) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Software: Manufacturers Face SaaS Hurdles (Page 38) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Software: Manufacturers Face SaaS Hurdles (Page 39) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Dialogue (Page 40) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Dialogue (Page 41) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Opinion By Pierfrancesco Manenti (Page 42) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Opinion By Pierfrancesco Manenti (Page Cover3) Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - Opinion By Pierfrancesco Manenti (Page Cover4)
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