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February 21,
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Are you congruent?
I’ve been in Florida for most of two weeks, and I finally made it to the beach Saturday. Had a relaxing day yesterday at a very nice park in Melbourne. Every great once in a while I need one of those. Although I'm reading a great book - “The Congruent Life” by C. Michael Thompson. More on that later when I digest it. Parts are applicable to this blog and parts to my other blog on philosophy... Read more
PLM
I haven’t been writing about PLM (product lifecycle management) recently, but I’ve been touching on something that encompasses it and uses it directly for manufacturing - the digital factory idea with Siemens’ purchase of UGS and the Rockwell/Dassault relationship. Last week I had a chat with Oracle Agile PLM. Oracle acquired Agile in July 2007... Read more
Manufacturing Lab
This is sort of old news, but it’s a new press release. I’ve followed the Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems for years. I can’t always make it to the meetings, but the researchers from the consortium of universities (University of Cincinnati, University of Michigan and University of Missouri-Rolla) are doing some good work on machine prognostics and actually have developed a product called the Watchdog Agent... Read more
ProfiNews
I got way behind in my blogging news while getting the January and February issues of Automation World out - and I wasn’t even traveling during that time. Some things just got too old. But from the archives - two “wins” for Profibus... Read more
Citect Meets SOA
Citect has just announced an upgrade to its manufacturing execution system (MES) product, Ampla. Version 3.2 now includes a service oriented architecture (SOA) layer. This is a significant advance for the product since enterprise architectures are increasing adopting this technology... Read more
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| Understanding Lean packaging
AstraZeneca discusses the Lean model, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and related purchasing strategies at this year’s Pharmaceutical Packaging Forum. March 12, Philadelphia, PA
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Pharmaceutical Packaging Forum
Offers information of interest specifically for packagers of pharmaceuticals. Learn via peer-to-peer education about topics of critical importance to your business.
Philadelphia, PA, March 12. |
2008 WBF North American Conference
Topics to be covered include current and evolving manufacturing methods and technologies, and implementation of industry standards including ISA88, ISA95, ISA99, B2MML, and Make2Pack.
Philadelphia, PA, March 24-27. |
INTERPHEX
World's largest pharmaceutical conference and exhibition, co-located with PharmaMedDevice and Biotechnica.
Philadelphia, PA, March 26-28. |
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