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Unilever to expand use of SAP in the US

Unilever has extended an SAP enterprise resource planning rollout to North America, including integration with its supply chain management system. The consumer goods company, which makes brands including PG Tips tea, Persil washing powder and ...

Special feature: Itelligence’s rapid, effective response

Expert insight from Itelligence, the global SAP partner, shows where intelligent manufacturing firms are placing their priorities for IT investment. High-tech and electronics manufacturing industries are constantly under pressure to improve product quality and expand ...
Bernard Charles DS President and CEO at ECF 2011

IT in manufacturing: Where is PLM headed?

Following his attendance at two major PLM user conferences in late 2011 Tim brown traces the development directions being taken by PTC and Dassault Systèmes and summarises recent announcements from competing vendors for a broad ...
Today, most engineers design with CAD, many of them using some kind of Product Data Management tool to assist release management and engineering change control

IT in manufacturing: PLM – an introduction

To give readers a grounding for the following extended article on Product Lifecycle Management software offerings, Mike Evans, research director at industry technology analyst firm Cambashi, gives an overview of the PLM software landscape, the ...
The Cave virtual reality environment cost £2m to install and is powered 16 high performance PCs as well as two additional machines for processing CAD for the 3D projectors and for recording output data.

Manufacturing technologies: The V factory

Jane Gray learns about the technology investment that keeps on giving at Jaguar Land Rover – its virtual reality ‘cave’ – and about its innovative application to the very fabric of the company’s factories as ...
Ronald Teijen, Commerce Solutions Regional Leader, Smarter Commerce, IBM

Ronald Teijken of IBM on manufacturing technologies

Ronald Teijken regional leader, Smarter Commerce at IBM, responds to the article Service culture is not enough, published in TM, Jan 2012, with some thoughts on the role to be played by social media technologies ...

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