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ALSO CALLED: High Tech Manufacturing Industry, Industrial Equipment Industry, Engineering Industry, Manufacturing Services, Furniture Industry, Industrial Automation Industry, Manufacturing Industries, Machinery Industry, and Industrial Manufacturing Industry
DEFINITION: Planned obsolescence, also called built-in obsolescence, is the conception, design and production of a product, such as hardware or software, with the intent that it should be useful, functional or popular for a limited length of time. The term was coined in the 1950s by Brooks Stevens who suggested that new and improved products are in constant demand by consumers and that corporations can best respond
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Manufacturing Industry White Papers
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Riding the Growth Wave: Leveraging Economies of Scale
sponsored by SAP AG
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This paper examines how an integrated information technology solution can help you take advantage of economies of scale to boost manufacturing utilization, enhance service levels, and improve the efficiency of your sales and administrative activities.
Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009
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There Is No Execution without Integration: MES Adoption Drives Performance
sponsored by SAP AG
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Many manufacturers today are getting caught on the wrong side of a technology adoption wave that is quickly gaining momentum. This benchmark study is a roadmap for reducing overall manufacturing costs through the utilization of manufacturing technologies.
Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009
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Focusing on High-Tech Manufacturers
sponsored by Infor CRM
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This paper explores the idea that to effectively compete today and into the next generation, high-tech manufacturers must rethink their customer relationship management (CRM) strategies. Read on to learn the three strategies high-tech manufacturers must do if they want to be profitable tomorrow and in the years to come.
Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009
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Business Network Transformation: Product and Service Leadership
sponsored by SAP America Inc
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For manufacturers today, achieving strategic goals requires not only intimately understanding technology and markets but also overcoming higher hurdles that have been exacerbated by trends toward globalization and outsourcing. Read on to learn more about how your company can achieve product and service leadership.
Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009
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Continuous Innovation for Product and Service Leadership: An Approach Driven by Business Value
sponsored by SAP America Inc
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The need to keep product and service offerings fresh is not a new concept in business today, but the new approach is involving a network of business partners and even customers in their quest to innovate. This process is called "continuous product and service innovation."
Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009
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Streamlining the Collection of Shipping, Manufacturing and Warehouse Data with Gemini for SAP®
sponsored by TAKE Supply Chain
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Read this paper to learn how Gemini for SAP®, from TAKE Supply Chain, allows manufacturing and distribution personnel to perform complex transactions and data entry. Read on to learn how streamlining the collection of shipping, manufacturing, and warehouse data can greatly reduce errors and increase visibility and profitability.
Posted: 14 Oct 2009 | Published: 14 Oct 2009
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How SYSPRO Leverages a Lean Manufacturing Model to Enhance Profitability
sponsored by SYSPRO
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This paper discusses the fundamentals for successful Lean manufacturing, including the establishment of optimal customer relationships, improved channel visibility, flexible product configuration, shortened cycle times, improved capacity utilization and integrated operational infrastructures.
Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009
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Producing to Order: Discrete Manufacturers and Customer Demand
sponsored by SAP America Inc
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Find out how discrete manufacturers are becoming truly customer-centric by pursuing or planning a variety of initiatives, including the improvement of customer service and the closer integration of customers into product design. The greatest impact is expected from plans to implement demand-driven manufacturing.
Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 07 Aug 2009
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Reading the Signals: Process Manufacturers and Customer Demand
sponsored by SAP America Inc
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Are you on a path to demand-driven manufacturing? This white paper explores how respondents to an Economist Intelligence Unit survey are pursuing demand-driven agendas - linking them with efforts to boost operational efficiency and sustain growth.
Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 07 Aug 2009
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A Premium on Efficiency: Midsize Manufacturers Confront the Obstacles to Growth
sponsored by SAP America Inc
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How do best-in-class midsize manufacturers continue to grow in a tough economy? This research report, conducted by EIU, outlines measures manufacturers implement to continue expanding even while coping with the strains of softening demand in key markets, rising input costs, and downward pressure on prices.
Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 07 Aug 2009
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6 Steps to Improving Manufacturing Performance:
sponsored by Apriso Corporation
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This executive brief presents the six "Rules of the Road" that can help you cut costs, increase cash flow and become more responsive to changing market conditions in the manufacturing industry.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009
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Growth And Complexity: The Challenges Ahead For Midsize Manufacturers
sponsored by SAP America Inc
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This is the first in a series of six reports addressing the opportunities and challenges faced by midsize manufacturers.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009
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Compliant Manufacturing Operations In Life Sciences Companies
sponsored by SAP America Inc
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With compliant manufacturing operations, you can deliver quality products to customers consistently and meet good manufacturing practices regulations at the lowest cost possible - all key to leading the competition. How can you achieve such objectives? With software and services from SAP and our partners.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009
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Early Lean Adopters Embrace Technology
sponsored by SAP America Inc
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Results from Aberdeen Group report, The Lean Supply Chain, indicates that Aerospace and Defense (A&D) manufacturers are 40% more likely to be Best in Class performers - companies that are characterized by having an integrated Lean approach and solution with technology enablers - than their peers from other industries.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009
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Requirements engineering for the automotive industry.
sponsored by IBM
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This white paper explores requirements engineering and its groundbreaking role in product development and engineering for the industrial segment. It discusses the best practices and benefits of requirements engineering, and how automotive manufacturers can overcome today's quality and cost challenges using those best practices.
Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 13 May 2009
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IT Tipping Point for Mid-sized Companies: Deciding When to Move to Tier 1 ERP
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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This white paper will focus on debunking the myth that Tier 1 systems make running the business more difficult, while demonstrating that Tier 1 systems can actually make it easier for growing mid-sized companies to do the things they need to do.
Posted: 04 May 2009 | Published: 04 May 2009
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Global Manufacturing Operations Management
sponsored by Apriso Corporation
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This paper explains how a common platform can provide the basis for not only managing manufacturing operations, but also quality and inventory across global supplier networks.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Published: 11 Sep 2008
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MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY DEFINITION (continued): … by manufacturing items that don't last very long.In the computer industry, planned obsolescence occurs in a synergistic manner between the hardware and software sectors. New applications and operating systems (OSs) demand more memory, hard disk space, storage capacity and throughput. This demand leads to the development of improved memory technology, increasingly capacious hard drives and storage media and faster microprocessors. These developments, in turn, are followed by still more sophisticated applications and OSs, driving the cycle to continue. All of this is fueled by the geek's love of … Manufacturing Industry definition sponsored by WhatIs.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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