Predictive maintenance and integrated CMMS is helping American Standard, formerly Armitage shanks, to improve production and customer service, writes Dom Pancucci

PDM has been reinvented as a ‘cradle to grave’ solution for product and component tracking. Annie Gregory finds out what’s changing and how it’s likely to affect manufacturing businesses

Investing a little time and money in simulation and modelling can save manufacturers millions of pounds – and show the way to better decisions. Andrew Ward explains

Mastering ‘mass customisation’ isn’t trivial, but it is worth it. Giroflex, a leading British office seating manufacturer, made this one of its key criteria when implementing a new enterprise system. And the success is ...

The Internet levels the competitive playing field, argue some IT vendors: small suppliers once out of the EDI running can join the fray. But there¡¦s much more to competing through faster supply chains than just wiring ...