Purchasing materials over the Internet is now a very real option for manufacturing companies, attracting significant business benefits to those that embrace the technology.

Two years after a difficult enterprise system go-live, luxury motor yacht maker Sunseeker is spending £100,000 on a rethink. Brian Tinham explains.

When classic sports car maker Caterham Cars needed to upgrade its manufacturing and business IT, the firm took the bumpy road – but the result has been a championship performance. Brian Tinham reports

Using EdgeCAM Solid Machinist, motor sport transmission specialist Xtrac has got 100% reliable data interchange integrity between its Unigraphics CAD system and NC machine programming – and cut machining times by one ...

Texol, the NCR metalworking MBO formed two years ago, is meeting aggressive plans for growth, and improving efficiency, costs and customer service following implementation of an NT-based modular enterprise system. As ...

Slick integration between Edinburgh Crystal’s Web site and its manufacturing enterprise system has provided a successful backbone for company’s e-commerce – and 1,000% increase in sales, writes Brian Tinham

West Midlands based extruded brass products manufacturer Boliden MKM moved over to a packaged enterprise system, customised some of it, but still kept it supportable – and saved 75% on its IT, Brian Tinham finds out how

Gains in time and cost reduction to develop new products of the order of 90 % are being claimed by Engage, a GKN company which this summer launched an initiative to its provide knowledge-based engineering to clients ...

Managing staff planning and resourcing is just the beginning with time and attendance systems. Dom Pancucci checks out the benefits of putting T&A right at the heart of business and plant IT

Web-based value adding services promise a goldmine for companies following an e-business strategy. Jon Mainwaring looks at the impact of these on more traditional enterprise software