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Atlas Products is a UK-based provider of Software as a Service (SaaS)-based business-to-business (B2B) EDI integration, secure data transfer, and e-invoicing solutions.

By Greg Goodwin, LNS Research The writing is on the wall: Paper is being slowly but surely phased out of our daily lives, and as goes the consumer so eventually will the enterprise.

Gartner summarized the relative strengths and weaknesses of 19 suppliers. IBM, Google and Microsoft fared poorly.

Metso will supply a DNA automation system, information management system and a fully integrated Machine Monitoring solution to predict mechanical faults in critical machinery.

Free eBook combats cloud computing fiction with fact, and encourages quality and IT professionals to consider cloud-based tools as a solution for enabling supply chain-wide quality, efficiency and productivity.

The television show “World’s Greatest!...” selected Wintriss Controls Group to be a part of the television series to be aired on June 30th and July 7th, 2014.

By Joachim Sahlqvist, IFS ISO 14224 constitutes a “reliability language” that can be used to improve communication in oil & gas rig or facility operations and maintenance. This white paper shows how enterprise asset management (EAM) software that is prepackaged to support ISO 14224 can speed up compliance with the standard and ensure successful generation of valuable KPIs.

While the global PLM market slowed in the second half of 2013, China had another strong year, with nearly 13% growth to US$845 million.

SETPOINT CMS software will use OSIsoft’s PI System technology for its underlying real-time data infrastructure.

By Pat Garrehy, Rootstock In our litigious society, the day is quickly coming when any manufacturer better be able to trace the history of anything they make. Where the law requires you to maintain accurate records for each unique Lot and/or Serial Number purchase and sale, you need Lot Serial Control.

InStep’s PRiSM software uses advance pattern recognition to provide a quantitative comparison between current and historical asset operational behavior for the early identification of equipment health and performance problems.

The software grants are for students in manufacturing programs at community colleges and universities in Virginia.

ITTIA's research says DB SQL significantly outperforms SQLite in write throughput, boasting high insert and update performance both on flash media and hard disk.

Epicor-sponsored research reveals that manufacturers with the right software tools to track and manage performance metrics come out on top -- outperforming competitors by up to 10% in areas such as manufacturing cost reduction, net profit margin increases, and on-time delivery.

By Bill Lydon, Editor A pharmaceutical company describes how they invested in multivariate tools and were able to gain better process understanding and improve batch outcomes. In effect, they were able to transform data to actionable information.

The two will provide protection of newly developed application code through the entire SAP development lifecycle and automated modernization and code optimization for ABAP customers.

By Nigel Rozier, Raima From batch processing to sophisticated real-time processes, effective data management is the key to boosting efficiency, increasing productivity and reducing costs in industrial applications. This article explores the role of data management solutions embedded within industrial automation systems.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Manufacturing Intelligence (MI) systems allow the aggregation and subsequent visualization and analysis of data to drive business decisions. Pharmaceutical companies share their companies' perspectives on MI solutions and their implementation plans.

By Mike Roberts, LNS Research In this article, we’ll present key preliminary findings from a joint survey between LNS Research and MESA International focused on identifying the top metrics and best practices that are driving the most results for manufacturing business leaders today.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The automation benchmarking survey of leading pharmaceutical companies reveals how these manufacturers are dealing with some of the latest industry trends. Topics of the survey include big data utilization, return on investment, major innovations, organizational structures, in-house vs.contract staff, automation management and challenges. How does your company compare?