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FEATURES

Material Management
Benefits of Factory Software Interoperability
Manufacturers deploy various manufacturing systems that provide necessary controls, enable data collection, support cost-saving initiatives, provide a means for compliance, and help decrease time to market. Yet most remain as islands of information, and provide the value intrinsic within their own confined systems. Can overall equipment effectiveness be optimized by enhancing links between material flow, quality and surface mount technology programming, and monitoring data?  
by Jay Gorajia

 

FIRST PERSON

  • Caveat Lector
    Use proper protection.
    Mike Buetow

  • Database
    Not a standard opinion.
    Pete Waddell

MONEY MATTERS

  • ROI
    Certifiable.
    Peter Bigelow

  • Focus on Business
    Why one size doesn’t fit all.
    Susan Mucha

 

TECH TALK

  • Signal Doctor
    Ten electrical design lessons.
    Dr. Eric Bogatin

  • Designer's Notebook
    DfM, properly applied.
    Max Clark

  • Getting Lean
    When metrics fail.
    Tony Bellito

  • Technical Abstracts
    In case you missed it.

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