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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Protecting Profits With Sustainable Design
Sustainability need not come at great cost to a manufacturer. Sustainable designs often cut costs and provide margin stability. Consider Pepsi’s example. Whoever said simple is beautiful was an early pioneer of sustainability. Global food and beverage manufacturer PepsiCo has made simplicity part of its sustainability efforts, and the result is no less than [...]
Posted in Product Innovation, Sustainability Tagged bottles, Daiichi, Fukushima, Japan, manufacturer, manufacturing, petroleum, plastic, simplicity, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable design Leave a comment
Are Manufacturing Leaders Engaged With Lean?
Lean manufacturing and operational excellence are said to be successful only with strong executive support. A straw poll finds that support missing; here’s your chance to help change that. A few weeks ago, I blogged about the rise of robots in the manufacturing world, and my burgeoning belief that our push for operational excellence [...]
HP and Cloud Computing: A Polygamous Marriage
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer made the bold statement in 2010 that his company was “all in” on cloud computing. At a strategy powwow this week, HP’s new CEO Léo Apotheker seemed to offer a more nuanced message: We’re all in on public cloud computing, but also private clouds, and also those traditional data centers that [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing Tagged Amazon, cloud, cloud computing, CloudSystem, computing resources, data center, HP, HP servers, hybrid cloud, Léo Apotheker, Oracle, private cloud, public cloud, SAP Leave a comment
Enterprise Integration Key to ERP Consolidation
If Infor gets the nod to acquire Lawson, it will be faced with the tricky task of integrating yet another family of applications into its already diverse product portfolio. When you are a little fish in the big ERP pond there is always a chance you will get gobbled up. Right now, Lawson Software is [...]
Balancing Green Supply Chains and Cost
Manufacturers are betwixt and between the notion of green supply chains. Some have appointed executives to ensure that sustainability and cost are balanced throughout the value chain. The pursuit of manufacturing sustainability—and, conversely, the fear of having to comply with a formalized sustainability regime—has prompted manufacturers and their supply chain partners down some interesting [...]
Managing for Change
Adding business process management to manufacturing operations management is the current technology trend, but now some say we need a BPM change framework. Do we?
SCADA, DCS, Operations Management at Risk From Sun Flares