Fact: integrated maintenance management can seriously increase operational efficiency. Also fact: despite vendors’ claims of software to cover all the bases, many plants just don’t collect enough data. Dom Pancucci ...

E-business is arriving so fast that manufacturing businesses are already finding they do not have the option of sitting back and waiting for developments. Frank Booty reports.

Application service provision (ASP) is as yet unfashionable in UK manufacturing: there’s a belief that manufacturing businesses are too complex for the approach. But recent developments involving the Internet and ...

Before shortlisting IT suppliers, it’s essential to understand what your manufacturing problems, not just symptoms, are – and what you want to achieve. Brian Tinham introduces the manufacturing business systems section ...

Automating approval routes, removing process bottlenecks and keeping tight control of documents - in short, managing change properly - is expected to cut development cycle times on large projects in half. Annie Gregory ...

Nicholas Scheele, chairman of Ford Europe and also chair of the Department of Trade and Industry’s Manufacturing 2020, speaks to Brian Tinham about “the most important item [boards of directors] have got to worry about ...

While most pundits had predicted fastest uptake of application service provision (ASP) by smaller manufacturers, it’s the big boys who are seeing the benefits, says Frank Booty

The advantages of the spread of newer digital wireless technologies are making themselves felt in everything from mobile sales and operations staff, to production, writes Geoff Lock

Plant and shop floor control systems are all undergoing dramatic change. There are many reasons for this, but most significant is the reducing cost of technology. Andrew Ward explains

Low cost, intelligent controls, ‘smart’ factory devices and a raft of maintenance and commissioning tools could ‘explode’ onto the market very soon on the back of Microsoft Windows CE and NT Embedded. Brian Tinham looks ...