Cover Story

Supply Chain Management

By Corey Billington

Powerful tool enables manufacturing professionals to model, analyze, revamp essential business processes

The Missing Link

By David A. Flood

How to use the Internet to engage key participants in a supply chain transaction

Esprit Report

High-Tech Info

By Peter Horner
Interview: Esprit Director George Metakides and program planner Ronald Mackay outline IT opportunities and challenges for manufacturing sector

Trends and TLAs

Pan-Regional Manufacturing

By Robert S. Collins and Roger W. Schmenner

The arrival of the single market forces manufacturers to rethink the way they operate in Europe

The Last Frontier

By Ed Cohen

Pro-Active Manufacturing (PAM) System focuses on the need to act in advance and manage the outcome

Made to Order

By Ken Cooper

Order-driven business control systems for the manufacturing enterprise yield new insights

Design & Engineering (Virtual Reality)

Nuclear Testing

By David Blanchard

Engineers employ virtual reality to improve maintenance and minimize radiation exposure at nuclear power plants

VR Shows It's For Real

By David Greenfield

Virtual reality advances down the prototype pathway, but not without resistance from CAD devotees

Full Speed Ahead

By Don Slawski and Jim Bopudreaux

Development of next-generation submarine buoyed by virtual environments and 3-D simulated models

Software & Computing

Simulation Semantics

By Jerry Banks

Wading through the rhetoric: "Easy-to-use" software can be difficult to define

50 Right on Schedule

By Javad Seyed

Finding the perfect scheduling system: Required, preferred and desirable features

Information/Control Systems

Get Smart

By Santosh Ananthraman and Mohamad Ali

Applying intelligent process optimization techniques in today's industry

Solutions

Painting by the Numbers

Dürr Behr of Germany seeks common "look and feel" for its car-painting systems marketed around the world

Expert Supervision

Expert system reduces incidents and down-time at steel-maker Cockerill Sambre through predictive maintenance

Revving Up Production

Flexible software "reconditions" manufacturing process at Mercedes-Benz

Coming in the Summer '96 issue

ERP: Help or hype?

What you need to know about the next generation of manufacturing software

PDM: The Data Game

How manufacturing professionals gain control over product lifecycle data

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