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Winning at margins - Better Business Performance
A fresh perspective on how turning your supply chain into a source of competitive differentiation and improved revenue performance. [sponsored by ]
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The Effective Supply Chain
An overview of techniques and best practices for the manufacturing supply chain to meet quality mandates, cost reductions, and delivery improvements. [sponsored by Plexus Systems]
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Real-Time Data Improves Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Manufacturers improve production and profitability with Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) measurements and analysis. [sponsored by Plexus Systems]
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• Enterprise-Wide Data Collection for Superior Supply Chain Management

• Meeting the Challenge of Three Global Manufacturing Imperatives

• Sustained Growth through Operational Excellence

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1. The Effective Supply Chain
   An overview of techniques and best practices for the manufacturing supply chain to meet quality mandates, cost reductions, and delivery improvements. [sponsored by Plexus Systems]
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2. Achieving Sourcing Excellence: A Three-Year Plan for Success
   Learn how to add value to your organization by attaining sourcing excellence. [sponsored by SAP America]
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3. Enterprise-Wide Data Collection for Superior Supply Chain Management
   How advanced bar code and related technologies can create sustainable advantages by providing the information required for modern business practices. [sponsored by Zebra Imaging]
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4. Real-Time Data Improves Overall Equipment Effectiveness
   Manufacturers improve production and profitability with Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) measurements and analysis. [sponsored by Plexus Systems]
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5. IT Perspective on Industrial Wireless Security
   There is little doubt that industrial wireless technology is here to stay. Deploying a wireless environment is fundamentally easy, but meeting the requirements of your existing IT security policies, while minimizing business risk, is not. [sponsored by Honeywell]
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6. Building the Industrial Wireless Infrastructure
   This white paper highlights the important design considerations that need to be addressed in building an industrial wireless infrastructure. [sponsored by Honeywell]
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7. Sustained Growth through Operational Excellence
   Discover the challenges and benefits of achieving and maintaining operational excellence. [sponsored by SAP America]
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8. The Lean Advantage for Complex Equipment Manufacturers
   Learn how to "go lean" to achieve on-time delivery, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. [sponsored by SAP America]
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9. Optimal Service Parts Management
   Learn how Cat Logistics implements demand planning and its development of best-in-class processes. [sponsored by SAP AG]
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10. To be wired or not to be…
    Wireless will happen to every major process plant operating in American in the next 3-5 years. It is only a question of when it will happen at your plant. [sponsored by Honeywell]
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Moving Forward with ERP On Demand
Okay Industries, Inc. realizes higher plant efficiencies using real time information through Plexus Online. [sponsored by Plexus Systems]
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Customer Success: Mattson Technology
Transforming operations for long term growth. [sponsored by SAP America]
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Automated and Streamlined Procurement Processes
Discover how procurement organizations can turn their complex purchasing operations into a strategic activity. [sponsored by SAP AG]
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• Business Transformation at Sauder Woodworking

• Customer Success: Pratt and Whitney Canada

• Customer Success: Eastman Chemical

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1. The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Success Story
   Find out how this lawn and garden care company grew business and operational efficiency by capturing orders in minutes instead of hours. [sponsored by Sterling Commerce ]
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2. Profit InSight: Product Mix Optimization for Manufacturing
   Learn how Rocky Mountain Steel Mills leveraged the power of Profit InSight to save $34 million and improve shareholder value [sponsored by EIS Analytics]
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3. The Journey to a Paperless Shop Floor Pays Off for General Dynamics AIS
   On June 13th, General Dynamics AIS was presented the top award for Progressive Manufacturer of the Year by Managing Automation magazine. “The Progressive Manufacturer of the Year is a distinct honor?we chose this company from across all eight categories as the one company that best exemplifies Progressive Manufacturing,” commented David Brousell, Editor-in-Chief for Managing Automation. [sponsored by iBASEt]
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4. Automated and Streamlined Procurement Processes
   Discover how procurement organizations can turn their complex purchasing operations into a strategic activity. [sponsored by SAP America]
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5. Customer Success: Dow Corning
   Optimizing operational performance to sharpen competitive advantage. [sponsored by SAP America]
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6. Customer Success: Eastman Chemical
   Transforming data into a single version of the truth. [sponsored by SAP America]
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7. Customer Success: Mattson Technology
   Transforming operations for long term growth. [sponsored by SAP America]
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8. Sterling Collaboration Network
   Increase your profit margins with B2B process automation [sponsored by Sterling Commerce ]
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9. Business Transformation at Sauder Woodworking
   Streamlining the production flow and increasing process efficiency. [sponsored by SAP America]
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10. Automated and Streamlined Procurement Processes
    Discover how procurement organizations can turn their complex purchasing operations into a strategic activity. [sponsored by SAP AG]
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Featured videos from the 2006 Progressive Manufacturing Summit

• Turning Operational Excellence into Competitive Advantage
  Discover how SAP solutions can help transform operations into a competitive differentiator.
• I.T. as a Strategic Advantage - Effective and Rapid Response to Competitive Forces
  Learn how industry leaders create agile supply chains that connect faster to more partners, run smoother with fewer order errors, and enable strategy and process changes as the needs of demanding customers evolve.
• Zero Zone selects IFS
  CFO John Duimstra says Zero Zone selected IFS Applications over Oracle and Great Plains for its modular nature.
• Increase Profits and Productivity while delivering products to market faster than your competition
  Do you want to beat your competition to market? Learn how Oracle's Agile PLM can help you reduce time to market, cycle time, improve product quality and regulatory compliance.
• SAP - Critical Manufacturing Execution Strategies Podcast
  Learn about SAP(R) Manufacturing Execution by Visiprise, a robust application for manufacturing execution systems (MES) that can enhance shop floor visibility and operational control.

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1. Fly By Wire: Inside Airbus'' Digitally Managed Supply Chain
   Fly By Wire: Inside Airbus' Digitally Managed Supply Chain [sponsored by OATSystems Inc.]
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2. Exact Software Event Manager
   Listen to how businesses solve the critical need of identifying their key information through the use of event manager software. [sponsored by Exact Software]
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3. Manufacturing Intelligence: Integrating KPIs and Real-time Management
   View this podcast and see how manufacturing intelligence and performance manage initiatives can enable a systematic approach to achieving manufacturing operational excellence. [sponsored by Camstar Systems Inc.]
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4. Exact Software Beyond ERP
   Take your organization to the next level by extending access to all company information to the entire organization, making information available at any time instantly from coast to coast to around the world. [sponsored by Exact Software]
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5. Vanguard GPS and ESNA EBA
   Maximize your business analysis and reporting capabilities and get the most out of your ERP system with Business Analytics. [sponsored by Exact Software]
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6. Manufacturing 2.0: Multi-Industry Case Studies: Improving Quality While Speeding Time to Market
   Manufacturing 2.0 has become a reality. Why implement this more collaborative model for your business? Join us to learn from case studies across multiple manufacturing industries and learn how you can reap the benefits. [sponsored by Intercim Inc.]
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7. I.T. as a Strategic Advantage - Effective and Rapid Response to Competitive Forces
   Learn how industry leaders create agile supply chains that connect faster to more partners, run smoother with fewer order errors, and enable strategy and process changes as the needs of demanding customers evolve. [sponsored by Sterling Commerce ]
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8. Turning Operational Excellence into Competitive Advantage
   Discover how SAP solutions can help transform operations into a competitive differentiator. [sponsored by SAP America]
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9. SAP - Critical Manufacturing Execution Strategies Podcast
   Learn about SAP(R) Manufacturing Execution by Visiprise, a robust application for manufacturing execution systems (MES) that can enhance shop floor visibility and operational control. [sponsored by SAP Manufacturing Execution by Visiprise]
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10. Increase Profits and Productivity while delivering products to market faster than your competition
    Do you want to beat your competition to market? Learn how Oracle's Agile PLM can help you reduce time to market, cycle time, improve product quality and regulatory compliance. [sponsored by Oracle Corp.]
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11. Where Progressive Manufacturing Becomes Revenue
    Learn how a company's processes and systems can work together for efficient delivery of the right product, at the right price, to the right destination, at the right time...to maximize revenue and avoid unnecessary costs. View NOW and receive a complimentary "Essential Integration for the Mid-Size Enterprise" whitepaper. [sponsored by EXTOL International Inc.]
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12. Integrated Manufacturing Operations Podcast
    A conversation with Visiprise about the role that integrated manufacturing operations plays in manufacturing. [sponsored by Visiprise Inc.]
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13. How Manufacturers Can Leverage the Power of Pricing to Increase Profits
    How do you find ways to improve profits in these difficult market conditions? Learn practical fixes that you can quickly leverage to improve your profits. Also get insights into the role that technology can play in improving margins. [sponsored by Vendavo]
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Featured Research Reports

• Wyeth Focuses on Integrated Operations
  Jul 16 2008 12:07PM–Learn how a life sciences company succeeded with real time visibility into its manufacturing operations. [sponsored by SAP America]
• B2B Automation Cost Savings Analysis
  Jun 15 2008 4:51PM–An optimized order-to-cash process reduces operational costs and increases profit margins. [sponsored by Sterling Commerce ]
• Sustainability: Going Green and IT''s Role
  May 29 2008 12:25PM–In its most basic definition, sustainability means "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." [sponsored by IDC Manufacturing Insights]
• Creating a Fulfillment Execution System
  May 29 2008 12:15PM–A fulfillment execution system (FES) connects devices to workflows to decisions in the context of the operational needs of a manufacturing company. Manufacturing firms that are driving process innovation to differentiate on the basis of operational excellence will be eager adopters of a FES approach. [sponsored by IDC Manufacturing Insights]
• Aberdeen Report - The 2007 ERP in Manufacturing
  Sep 11 2007 3:00PM–How Top Manufacturers get the most out of their ERP/MRP solutions ? Get the report now ! [sponsored by Infor]
• Aberdeen Report - Lean Scheduling and Execution
  Sep 11 2007 2:50PM–What are the operational performance benefits that 'Best in Class' manufacturers are currently enjoying due to the adoption of Lean scheduling and execution principles? Find out the metrics and the results behind this Benchmark Report by Aberdeen. [sponsored by Infor]
• Aberdeen Report - Integrated Transportation Management
  Sep 11 2007 11:30AM–Integrated Transportation Management: How Best in Class companies reduce spend and improve on delivery time [sponsored by Infor]
• Collaborative Asset Maintenance Strategies - Aberdeen Benchmark Report
  Sep 10 2007 4:10PM–Read this Benchmark Report to get the key strategies for effective Maintenance Operations and get ready to implement specific recommendations for asset maintenance improvement. [sponsored by Infor]
• MES to Regain Control in Outsourced Operations
  Jan 22 2007 9:15AM–Outsourcing is a way of life in electronics, from fabless semiconductor companies working with foundries and assembly and test providers to board, box and system OEMs who work with Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) or other contractor partners. The industry structure allows each company to specialize and reduce their expensive capital asset base. However, outsourcers have also chosen, by intent or not, to take on other issues and additional risk as a result of ceding control of their operations. [sponsored by Camstar Systems Inc.]
• Reducing Risk with State-of-the-Art MES
  [sponsored by Camstar Systems Inc.]

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The Perfect Plant Center of Excellence
See first hand how the Perfect Plant initiative provides a collaborative environment where SAP and solution partners join forces to create a tightly integrated manufacturing and intelligence solution for today’s manufacturing companies. [sponsored by Stratus Technologies]
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Information Connects: Oracle Supply Chain Management
The New Framework for Supply Chain Management [sponsored by Oracle Corp.]
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Wireless Value Unleashed
OneWireless – The next frontier to enabling total plant optimization and safety [sponsored by Honeywell]
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• IBS: Automotive Solutions

• Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) solutions from Sprint

• Compact Series of Label Printers Empowers Businesses of All Sizes

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1. Control the Shop Floor and Integrate Production with your Enterprise
   With the SAP(R) Manufacturing Execution application by Visiprise, you can now control and execute shop-floor production and facilitate information flow throughout the enterprise. [sponsored by SAP Manufacturing Execution by Visiprise]
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2. The Perfect Plant Center of Excellence
   See first hand how the Perfect Plant initiative provides a collaborative environment where SAP and solution partners join forces to create a tightly integrated manufacturing and intelligence solution for today’s manufacturing companies. [sponsored by Stratus Technologies]
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3. IBS: Automotive Solutions
   IBS: Automotive Solutions help manufacturers streamline processes across the entire automotive value-added chain. [sponsored by IBS America]
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4. EnterpriseIQ Intelligent Enterprise Software
   IQMS's EnterpriseIQ ERP software delivers proven ROI where it matters most: profits, communication, and time. [sponsored by IQMS]
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5. Infor Syteline - Overview Datasheet
   : Infor ERP SyteLine provides the foundation to improve business efficiency, customer service, and overall manufacturing productivity for a broad range of industries including metal fabrication, industrial equipment and machinery, and high-tech and electronics. [sponsored by Infor]
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6. SAP® xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (xMII) Composite Application
   SAP xApp and Stratus ftServer datasheet [sponsored by Stratus Technologies]
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7. Lawson Manufacturing
   The simpler and better solution for increased profitability across your entire supply chain. [sponsored by Lawson Software]
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8. EIS : Setting the Course for your Business
   When setting the course for your business, which do you want a Magellan GPS or a sextant? [sponsored by EIS Analytics]
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9. Wireless Value Unleashed
   OneWireless – The next frontier to enabling total plant optimization and safety [sponsored by Honeywell]
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10. Maximize Uptime and Minimize Lifecycle Costs - EAM
    If your organization depends on the reliability of its plant and equipment, IFS' enterprise asset management (EAM) solution can help you improve the bottom line. By providing accurate, real-time information about your assets, the IFS solution helps you avoid equipment downtime, extend asset life, reduce service and repair costs, and maximize return on assets. [sponsored by ]
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