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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.