The Essential Guide To Manufacturing Software 2001
Software functionalities continue to expand as they open more widely to each other and to the Internet. But integration lags on the plant floor.
It's time for an update. The technologies continue to explode faster than they can be applied. New systems are continually introduced. Systems incorporate ever-greater functionalities and capabilities, blurring layers of control and definitions. Mergers, acquisitions, new players and dropouts have altered the vendor lineup. The expanding lexicon of acronyms and abbreviations continues to confuse. And the Internet is changing everything, raising premature expectations of "e-commerce" yet opening real opportunities for supplier/customer collaboration.