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Summary
Summary
The rate of change in manufacturing today is faster than ever. Retailers and consumers demand flexibility and responsiveness, regulatory oversight is on the rise, and increasing consolidations require companies to demonstrate cost and efficiency improvements.
Information Technology for Manufacturing describes how IT can help manufacturers effectively respond to all of these changes. By reviewing common strategic errors and pitfalls as well as success stories, the book outlines how manufacturing companies can use IT to their advantage in two fundamental ways: to cut costs and to add valuable new capabilities. Citing examples from their work in the field, the authors recount how savvy companies use IT to improve manufacturing processes, and subsequently save millions of dollars, become more competitive, and avoid fines from regulatory agencies.
The book takes a comprehensive look at five major areas where IT systems can play a pivotal role in improving any company's manufacturing processes. Going beyond theory, the authors show how to ensure that IT investments bring a real payback to manufacturing companies.
Table of Contents
1 Manufacturing Changes in Recent Decades | p. 1 |
Textiles | p. 3 |
Steel | p. 4 |
Automotive | p. 6 |
Pulp and Paper | p. 8 |
Food and Beverage | p. 9 |
The Big Picture | p. 12 |
The Future Role of IT | p. 22 |
2 Manufacturing IT from the Beginning | p. 23 |
The Development of Corporate IT | p. 23 |
The First Engineering Applications of Computer Technology | p. 24 |
"Lights Out Manufacturing" | p. 27 |
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing | p. 28 |
The Gulf between Engineering and IT | p. 32 |
The Emergence of Personal Computers and Networks | p. 34 |
The Aftermath of the Turf Wars | p. 36 |
The Rise of ERP | p. 36 |
The Invisible Computers | p. 39 |
What Engineering Achieved | p. 39 |
Y2K | p. 40 |
The Dot-Com Boom and Bust | p. 42 |
Conclusion | p. 43 |
3 The State of Manufacturing IT Today | p. 45 |
The Cavalry to the Rescue | p. 46 |
ERP in the Plant | p. 48 |
The Reasons behind ERP's Shortcomings | p. 54 |
The Legacy of the Gulf between Corporate IT and Plant Engineering | p. 56 |
AMR Research Report, February 2000 | p. 57 |
Unfulfilled Promises | p. 59 |
"Bring on the Data Entry Clerks" | p. 62 |
The Need for--and Lack of--IT Support | p. 67 |
Filling in the Gaps | p. 67 |
Was ERP Worth the Price? | p. 69 |
Technology Mania | p. 70 |
Buying on Faith | p. 70 |
IT Budgets--Past and Present | p. 72 |
The New Order--Hard Justification | p. 73 |
Conclusion | p. 74 |
4 Ways to Cut Costs and Add Capabilities | p. 75 |
The Value of Focusing on the Supply Chain | p. 75 |
Manufacturing's Place in the Supply Chain | p. 77 |
Manufacturing's Role Gets Overlooked | p. 79 |
How Manufacturing Systems Can Achieve Real Payback | p. 80 |
Reducing Waste and Loss | p. 80 |
How to Attack the Waste Streams | p. 81 |
Informed Decision Making | p. 88 |
Reducing Waste through Supplier Integration | p. 94 |
Reducing Waste through Management of Quality | p. 96 |
Providing New Capabilities | p. 97 |
Supporting Regulatory Compliance | p. 102 |
Conclusion | p. 104 |
5 The Portfolio | p. 105 |
The Integration Chasm | p. 105 |
Building a Bridge between ERP and the Plant | p. 105 |
The Portfolio | p. 106 |
Conclusion | p. 156 |
6 Achieving Payback with the Portfolio | p. 157 |
Snapshots of Success | p. 157 |
Examples of Real Payback | p. 159 |
Conclusion | p. 191 |
7 How to Make IT Solutions a Reality | p. 193 |
Why the Process Is Difficult | p. 193 |
The Project Lifecycle | p. 195 |
Conclusion | p. 199 |
8 Strategy | p. 201 |
Why Requirements Matter | p. 201 |
General Guidelines for Creating a List of Requirements | p. 202 |
Benefits of Requirements | p. 203 |
The Requirements Document | p. 204 |
Using Requirements to Sketch Out Broad Solutions | p. 205 |
Various Approaches to IT Architecture | p. 208 |
Involving the End Users and the Stakeholders | p. 214 |
Conclusion | p. 216 |
9 Framework | p. 217 |
Design | p. 217 |
Guidelines for Technology Evaluation and Selection | p. 222 |
The Value of Standards and Models | p. 223 |
Standards | p. 224 |
Models | p. 229 |
Justifying the Capital Expense for IT Projects | p. 230 |
The Three Main Ways to Justify Projects | p. 231 |
The Importance of Business Strategies | p. 233 |
Conclusion | p. 234 |
10 Implementation and Support | p. 235 |
Implementation | p. 235 |
Support | p. 249 |
Conclusion | p. 252 |
11 Pitfalls | p. 253 |
The 10 Most Common Pitfalls | p. 253 |
An Even Longer List of Pitfalls | p. 260 |
Dodging Pitfalls | p. 260 |
A List of Why Projects Succeed | p. 263 |
Climbing Out of Pitfalls in Five Steps | p. 263 |
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Manufacturers | p. 264 |
Conclusion | p. 266 |
12 Conclusion | p. 269 |
Appendix A Standards | p. 271 |
DECnet | p. 271 |
IBM SAA | p. 272 |
OSF (Open Software Foundation) | p. 272 |
MAP/TOP | p. 273 |
X-Windows | p. 274 |
PowerBuilder | p. 275 |
Appendix B Models | p. 277 |
Nine Important Models | p. 277 |
Appendix C Glossary of Acronyms | p. 291 |
Index | p. 297 |