Performance Management

Your goal is clear-produce high-quality goods while optimizing resources at every step of production. And in today's uncertain economy, cost-control efforts may never have been more important. Unscheduled downtime because of equipment failure can have a serious impact on your organization's bottom line. Download this white paper from IBM, and learn the basics of predictive maintenance, the benefits it provides manufacturing operations and the underlying technologies that make it possible. Predictive analytics helps you in a number of ways: identify when equipment is likely to fail or need maintenance and take action to maximize uptime and reduce future warranty claims costs; optimize allocated labor resources and spare part inventories, helping eliminate undue maintenance, prevent downtime and reduce inventory costs; and determine why certain production runs fail more often than others, identify the cause and analyze whether those runs warrant a recall.

The capabilities that enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems enable in wholesale and distribution have a wide umbrella of influence throughout an organization. Using ERP data to make better business decisions while cutting your costs is only one

Download this white paper to understand how these changes create a need for new processes and systems to achieve compliance and drive the need for new and broader skills within financial and real estate personnel.

In this white paper are the 12 criteria that will allow you to identify and select the ERP system replacement solution that will meet these expectations.

This paper discusses some important considerations for A&D manufacturers in the context of enterprise information systems and how they can help in addressing five important areas of concern-compliance, control, communications, competitiveness, and cutting cost, waste and complexity.

The IBM white paper, "A Best-in-Class Roadmap For Performance Improvement," includes the results of an Aberdeen survey of over 200 retail companies. In it, you'll see the critical Business Intelligence strategies and capabilities that best-in-class retailers are employing to increase performance.

Pressures to reduce costs continue to outweigh all other business drivers impacting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in 2009. ERP has become more than a necessary infrastructure; it is also a strategic weapon in streamlining and accelerating business processes - while providing visibility to those processes throughout the enterprise.

IBM Maximo for Transportation helps you take a strategic role in how you manage the performance of your transportation assets. In this demo you'll see how routine tasks like maintenance, inspections and warranty recovery can be automatically scheduled.

In today’s competitive embedded markets, manufacturers need to find ways to differentiate without adversely impacting development time and cost. This is particularly true in relation to embedded devices that are designed for use by consumers. As such products become more sophisticated, user interaction via traditional switches, dials, and basic displays becomes less desirable for a number of reasons.

This whitepaper outlines the methodology, sources of value, and the results which clearly show that Pipeline Pilot customers see significant time and cost savings across industries.

Benefits of Procurement Audits for Private Equity Firms & Portfolio Companies

With the significant improvements in scanning technology today and the increased importance of all aspects of security, it is a good time to take another look at and update the factors that are important in selecting a scanni

This paper describes how the software as a service (SaaS) model delivers financial, implementation, and operational benefits to job shops and small manufacturers.

Integrated and closed-loop warranty management strategy to significantly reduce the total warranty spend and reserves, improve product quality, and increase end-customer satisfaction

Phase II of barcode data collection implementation brings shipping process improvement and reduces worker stress.

For complex manufacturing environments, OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) falls short when it comes to delivering improvements in productivity. That's because OEE tools were originally developed to measure the performance of stand-alone equipment or the total output of a particular line. Today's enterprises need more. This paper describes an evolution in thinking: focusing on product flow through the process.