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Through the Supply Chainnovator awards program, Gartner recognizes supply chain innovation and impact delivered by supply chain organizations, in manufacturing. This year's winners were Cisco and Jabil.

NC State's Golden LEAF BTEC center will introduce LZ Lifescience’s manufacturing execution system (MES) technology into its biotech laboratory, replacing paper-based systems to improve performance and demonstrate efficiencies.

As a Savigent Authorized Partner, Factora will provide manufacturers with top-to-bottom Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) consultation, planning, design and implementation using Savigent’s suite of products.

The collaboration brings together Werum IT Solution’s MES PAS-X software, which is designed to increase efficiency and meet regulatory requirements during pharmaceutical manufacturing, with Zenith Technologies’ ability to integrate systems and provide automation technical support.

Zenith Technologies’ chief will lead the company’s strategic direction and operations, with the goal of furthering growth as demand for the integration of manufacturing software systems in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries increases.

All current Factorytalk MES employees will transfer into Werum IT Solutions Ltd. in Bangkok, Thailand. This ensures continuation and future growth of the operational Werum business in the Asia Pacific region.

ADLINK’s SETO-1000 platform runs Numascale software to implement big data analytics.

By Jan Baan, Founder, Vanenburg Software The Pace-Layered Application Strategy Model from Gartner distinguishes three layers, which are helping organizations improve their applications by categorizing, selecting, managing and educating themselves on those applications.

By Alex Herbert, Kepware Technologies Since implementing the IoT Gateway for KEPServerEX, Faurecia was able to decrease its transparency project from a complicated six-month scope to a functioning solution in just a couple of days.

Zenith will supply biopharmaceutical process control systems, manufacturing execution system (MES) solutions and other supporting technologies to GE Healthcare Life Sciences

By Armin Singer, MPDV A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is not only suitable to support Industry 4.0 but a necessary requirement. This white paper describes MPDV's Hydra MES.

By Terumi Okano, Aspen Tech Successful chemical manufacturers are now implementing advanced integrated software solutions to help them maintain production margins, improve product quality and continue to meet regulatory compliance.

PLM software manages information for REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals), a regulation of the European Union (EU).

BHP Billiton will install FactoryTalk Historian at the company’s iron ore operations in Australia

Forming Technology (FTI) is a provider of manufacturing software solutions designed to reduce the development time and material costs of sheet metal components.

The market increasingly demands individualized products. Product life cycles are getting shorter and average lot sizes are getting smaller. Considering this, cost efficient production in a globalized and resource limited environment requires a highly flexible (IT-) infrastructure that also works well in cross-enterprise networks. It requires a reshaped automation data pyramid.

Siemens’ software solutions are replacing the legacy system of German automotive supplier Bosch in its Electrical Drives division.

By Manjish Naik, Meridium Use high accuracy metrics or sufficiently-good data to analyze asset performance as far as it will allow, while you keep improving processes and the quality of the rest of your data to make it sufficiently good.

Implico is integrating OpenTAS software with SAP and field equipment at six tank farms and a refinery.

Powerstorm ESS develops and manufactures smart energy storage solutions for electric grid, backup power and lead-acid replacement applications.