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Data collection throughout the plant: Bramah Engineering - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Case Study of Bramah Engineering Ltd in Sheffield who over several years developed its own comprehensive production control system. MORE INFO: Data collection throughout the plant: Bramah Engineering Case Study of Bramah Engineering Ltd in Sheffield who over several years dev... read article...
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Automatic ID in automotive manufacturing - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Defines automatic identification technologies and considers AI as a key component of the automated factory. MORE INFO: Automatic ID in automotive manufacturing Defines automatic identification technologies and considers AI as a key component of the automated factory. PUBLI... read article...
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Production control systems with barcodes - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Outlines the use of bar codes in production control within manufacturing. MORE INFO: Production control systems with barcodes Outlines the use of bar codes in production control within manufacturing. PUBLISHER: Institute of Operations Management Vol 10 - No 06 - Octob... read article...
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Lies, damned lies and statistics - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The case for automatic data collection. MORE INFO: Lies, damned lies and statistics The case for automatic data collection. PUBLISHER: Institute of Operations Management Vol 13 - No 01 - December/January 1987... read article...
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RF tag read/write and bar code scanning - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: In a move that provides the opportunity to provide both bar-codes and RF tags in manufacturing and supply chain operations... MORE INFO: RF tag read/write and bar code scanning In a move that provides the opportunity to provide both bar-codes and RF tags in manufacturing and ... read article...
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Shop floor data collection: the missing link? - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The implications of a proposed shop floor data collection system go beyond those of hardware and software and must be considered very carefully. MORE INFO: Shop floor data collection: the missing link? The implications of a proposed shop floor data collection system go beyond... read article...
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Making the most of bar codes - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Bar coding systems provide a cost effective option for obtaining the controls needed in the competitive environment of businesses MORE INFO: Making the most of bar codes Bar coding systems provide a cost effective option for obtaining the controls needed in the competitive en... read article...
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Data - the next pollutant - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Highlights areas that are not considered by users but may need to be as technology changes and users get closer to their data. Ownership, management. MORE INFO: Data - the next pollutant Highlights areas that are not considered by users but may need to be as technology change... read article...
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Implementing Bar Coding - just jumping on the band wagon? - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Baxi, a gas appliance manufacturing company, decided to investigate the possibility of implementing bar coding for data capture for their operations. MORE INFO: Implementing Bar Coding - just jumping on the band wagon? Baxi, a gas appliance manufacturing company, decided to i... read article...
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Shrinking the supply chain uncertainty circle - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Any business operating within a product delivery supply chain is faced with an Uncertainty Circle. This is a major problem area and has four segments associated with it: the supply side, the manufacturing process, the control systems and the demand side. Whereas uncertainty caus... read article...
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Mass customisation across the business - Business failure analysis and data mining: Part 4 - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: This article, the last in the series on mass customisation across the business, looks at analysing failures both during the manufacturing process and after shipment. It will first consider why there is a need for new techniques and then explore the use of datamining software to ... read article...
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Analysing production and early life fails. A case study - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Research Machines PLC is the UK's leading supplier of IT solutions into education. Their production facilities built around 100,000 PC systems in the year 1998/98... MORE INFO: Analysing production and early life fails. A case study Research Machines PLC is the UK's leading s... read article...
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Do your business systems help or hinder your company's success? Part 5 - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Part 5 of this series focuses on the typical characteristics and key requirements of selected different environments, i.e. environments with different 'modes of operation'. MORE INFO: Do your business systems help or hinder your company's success? Part 5 Part 5 of this series... read article...
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Forecasting and planning: the views of a change agent - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Examines the management processes, behaviours and disciplines that are the fundamental foundations of a successful demand planning process. MORE INFO: Forecasting and planning: the views of a change agent Examines the management processes, behaviours and disciplines that are ... read article...
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Building an agile supply chain - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The effect of the Internet on manufacturing and on the supply chain (as in most other areas of commerce) is a ‘hot topic’ for articles and conferences... MORE INFO: Building an agile supply chain The effect of the Internet on manufacturing and on the supply chain (as in most ... read article...
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Knowledge based solutions to boost accuracy - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: A new breed of software giving companies the opportunity to improve data accuracy to over 99% is being launched in the UK... Developed by Human Inference, it allows businesses with large customer relationship information systems to work in a more natural way by using advanced 'f... read article...
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www.complacency.org - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: MORE INFO: www.complacency.org Competitive advantage will belong to those companies that grasp the opportunity offered by network technology, says Interforum, the trade organisation. This is more so for automotive suppliers, an industry which already seems destined to play ... read article...
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Re-mapping the automotive supply chains - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Vehicle Manufacturers (VMs))would insist that to qualify as a supplier, EDI must be adopted as part of the supplier process... MORE INFO: Re-mapping the automotive supply chains Vehicle Manufacturers (VMs))would insist that to qualify as a supplier, EDI must be adopted as par... read article...
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XML: an alternative to EDI - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Imagine a world where you can open a document in your web browser that shows a list of suppliers, you click a button next to the name and the document expands to show you the items MORE INFO: XML: an alternative to EDI Imagine a world where you can open a document in your web... read article...
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Cost Analysis For World Class Change - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Part 2: The Costs Associated with Supplier Development and Quality: This article examines cost models proposed as means of quantifying benefits derived from supplier development... MORE INFO: Cost Analysis For World Class Change Part 2: The Costs Associated with Supplier Deve... read article...
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Solutions for Design and Product Data - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: IOM Member John Bentall has recently joined Proceed Solutions, a company offering packaged solutions for Design and Product Data Management departments in companies operating SAP ERP software, acting as the prime contractor for engineering companies wishing to share product data... read article...
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Getting started with RFID; What you need to know and a success story - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Different industries across the economy have felt the effects of globalisation, increasing oil prices, terrorist attacks, and stiff market competition. In order to become more competitive, companies have had to resort to more dynamic and strategic ways of operating their busines... read article...
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Implementing RFID in your organisation - A roadmap - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: If you are hoping that by ignoring RFID it will go away, be careful. A year ago, there was intense activity and interest in the subject. Both Tesco and Metro issued plans to their suppliers about RFID and every other conference was full of case studies. Wal-Mart mandated RFID fo... read article...
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RFID - Recipe for Inventory Destruction - or a boring technological initiative? - Data handling Article
ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: This article addresses the notion that RFID Radio Frequency Identification Devices – which will be used to track products through their manufacturing and distribution cycles - could also be used within the Supply Chain for other important aspects, for instance forecasting ... read article...
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