| October 18,
2007 | Edited by Managing Editor: Wes Iversen |
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Product management Web-based software
Software-as-a-service continues to grow - at least in number of product offerings. Here’s one for the apparel industry. Centric Software has developed a product line it calls “product intelligence.” It now has a web-based application suite for the apparel industry that offers collection and line planning as well as product specification and product sourcing... Read more
Rockwell Names Sr. VPs
Theodore D. Crandall has been named senior vice president and chief financial officer of Rockwell Automation Crandall, 52, served as interim CFO since April 2007, and was previously senior vice president and head of the Control Products & Solutions segment... Read more
Get one free
Consumer-style marketing doesn't show up often in business-to-business markets. There is one strategy that seems to be crossing over well, though. Over the weekend, I wrote about the initial success of Projity and its free software downloads. A contact at GE Fanuc told me that its offer of free downloads of a reduced set of its latest HMI software garnered much interest. Now come two more... Read more
Electrical CAD market
I had a very interesting chat with Denise Yuan who is an MBA candidate at UCLA the other day. Every time someone calls me for information on our niche of the industry, I think I learn something new. At any rate, she is doing research on electrical CAD--the sort of thing where you can do control wiring and panel layouts... Read more
Controllers
My friend Dave Harrold took exception to my post of conversations from ISA regarding definition of controllers. His comment is pasted below. I guess I have two rebuttal comments. First, the names are more relevant to discrete than process manufacturing. Second, it refers more to technology than to function. In this latter case, control is still control... Read more
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