Industry Week articles from July 2002

Industry Week archives from July 2002

IndustryWeek's Best Plants. (Communities).
July 1, 2002... Read Web-exclusive best practices from INDUSTRYWEEK's 2002 European Best Plants winners and see the Top 25 finalists for North America's 2002 Best Plants. Also view the database of all manufacturers that have won this award from 1990-2002. ...

IW Census of manufacturers. (Communities).
July 1, 2002... Get current data on the state of U.S. manufacturing from nearly 2,900 plant- and corporate-level manufacturers. www.industryweek.com/iwinprint/census

Technology and Innovation Awards. (Communities).
July 1, 2002... IW honors the creativity of visionaries with its Technology Leader of the Year and Technologies of the Year awards. The package includes archives of past winners. www.industryweek.com/iwinprint/tech&innovation

Online poll.
July 1, 2002... Approximately how many hours of overtime do you work per week? IndustryWeek.com readers respond: None 10.1% 1 to 5 hours 29.1% 6 to 10 hours 32.0% 11 to 15 hours 16.9% More than 15 hours 11.9% Visit...

Opinions. (Dot-Com Favorites).
July 1, 2002... Review your favorite IW columnist and Web-exclusive Viewpoint columns. www.industryweek.com/Columns

Market report. (Dot-Com Favorites).
July 1, 2002... Get futures updates for energy and metals commodity markets, as well as a look at currencies, stock market snapshots, and other financial and business news. Updated every business day. www.industryweek.com/DailyPage/news1.asp

Sponsored white papers. (Tools).
July 1, 2002... Download free white papers on a variety of topics. INDUSTRY WEEK's Sponsored White Paper Collection is an easy-to-use library of manufacturing know-how contributed by IW vendors. www.industryweek.com/research/whitepapers

Find a consultant. (Tools).
July 1, 2002... IndustryWeek.com offers a free service through ProSavvy to help companies quickly and competitively select a consultant from over 1,700 prequalifled consulting firms. industryweek.prosavvy.com

Viewpoint. (New Online).
July 1, 2002... Overwhelmed by spam in your e-mail in-box? Don't expect a comprehensive solution to eliminate these unwanted mailings in the immediate future, says industry Week.com Webmaster Frank Chloupek www.industryweek.com/Columns/viewpoint

IW1000. (New Online).
July 1, 2002... View the seventh annual report on the world's 1,000 largest public manufacturing companies, including a free searchable database that ranks the companies by several enteria www.industryweek.com/iwinprint/iw1000

Letters to the Editor.
July 1, 2002... Industry Week.com adds letters to the editor to its site View reader responses to IW articles and Web-exclusive content www.industryweek.com/letters

Webcast archives. (New Online).
July 1, 2002... Visit IW's Webcast archives and view Web-based conferences produced by INDUSTRYWEEK. Recent titles include * "Your Customers Role in New Product Development" Sponsored by Intel Corp. * "CRM and the Bottom Line: What's the ROI for...

Emerging from Enron's ashes. (Editor's Page).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
July 1, 2002... I must say I'm a little disappointed, though not too surprised by the muted reaction from manufacturing executives regarding the Enron Corp. debacle. After all, the now-disgraced Enron leadership epitomized the people who led the most recent...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2002... Pink Slip Ins arid Outs Downsizing Dos and Don'ts [May 2002, Page 19] summarized my thoughts exactly. I have often said that if you enjoy terminating a person, you are in the wrong business. Experience also has taught me however, that...

Signs of leadership: solid performance alone doesn't define IndustryWeek's 25 Best Plants finalists. (Best Plants).(factory management)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... WHEN EVALUATING INDUSTRY-WEEK'S Best Plants entries, the judges have always looked at results: quality performance, on-time delivery, productivity improvements and profitability, to name a few. In terms of raw performance the 25 finalists for...

IT headache for drug makers. (E-Commerce).(federal inspections of pharmaceutical industry documentation)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... As it pharmaceutical companies didn't have enough to worry about these days, its seems their ample investments in e-business are causing a nasty side effect: increased scrutiny of computer-generated documents. Food and Drug Administration...

Next generation performance measurement: strategic indicators track the marketplace, monitor resource management and look to the future. (Strategy).(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
July 1, 2002... Company leaders know that they need to invest in their people, their customer relationships, and their business alliances, and that these investments ultimately improve performance. But when it comes to determining how these investments should...

Leading by example. (Quality).(ISO standards)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... File it under the category of "leading by example." The Central Secretariat of ISO (International Organization for Standardization), Geneva, has achieved certification to the ISO 9001:2000 quality management standard. This means that the...

On the comeback trail. (Dividends).(dividend policies of manufacturers)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Only 10% of senior financial officers of member companies recently surveyed by Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI say their current policy is to reduce dividend payments. In contrast, 77% report they are holding dividends constant or raising them. ...

Online network targets manufacturing. (Recruiting).(skilled labor)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The U.S. economy may be struggling, but still it remains difficult for some manufacturers to find the skilled workers they seek. More help may be at hand. It's all about manufacturing at MfgJobs.com, a Web-based recruiting and placement...

Execution starts at the top. (Executive Word).(Honeywell International CEO Lawrence A. Bossidy)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)(Interview)
July 1, 2002... At the behest of the board of directors, on July 3, 2001, then-recently-retired Honeywell International Inc. chairman Larry Bossidy returned to the $25 billion technology and manufacturing firm as chairman and CEO. Bossidy's self-described...

Making machine tools reconfigurable; The vision: 'living' factories that evolve easily and quickly over time as new technology and products are introduced. (Emerging Technologies).(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
July 1, 2002... Tip: When visiting Chicago's International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) this September, expect to see something more fundamental than the convergence of IT and machine tools. Look for the progress in reconfigurable machining systems...

Managing assets. (Emerging Technologies).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... On asset management, SKF's Jan Brons likes to cite Peter Drucker on the growing importance of knowledge management. The San Diego-based president of global operations, SKF Reliability Systems, emphasizes that theme in explaining the performance...

Five things good CEOs do: this crucial role needs a clearer definition. (Brandt on Leadership).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... It's a tough time to be a CEO of any kind, much less a good one. As once-mighty corporate titans fall-from Enron's Ken Lay to Adeiphias's John Rigas to Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski-their brethren find their own powers increasingly limited, and not...

Bitter goodbye: confectionery manufacturers say U.S. government subsidies boost domestic sugar prices unfairly, making moving offshore an appealing prospect for some. (Supply Chain).(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... JAMES A. HANLON RECENTLY LOST HIS LAST CUSTOMER FOR BULK candies to a competitor located in Mexico. At one time, his Santa Cruz, Calif.-based candy company, which counts among its catalog of confections both gummies and jelly beans, had a dozen...

Part Three: plant-floor strategy. (Factories of the Future).(using manufacturing technology)
July 1, 2002... THE MOST CRUCIAL INVESTMENT FOR THE FACTORY OF THE FUTURE WILL BE MADE NOT IN HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE, BUT IN UNDERSTANDING HOW MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY PROVIDES NEW OPTIONS TO POWER BUSINESS SUCCESS. LIKE NEVER BEFORE, TECHNOLOGICAL...

PLM market heats up: manufacturers find value in this 'five-course dinner'. (E-Commentary).(product life-cycle management software)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Hardly a day goes by without someone asking, "What's hot?" Lately the answer has been easy: PLM, or pro duct-life-cycle management. The market for PLM software is expected to expand by 31% this year, according to AMR Research....

The right remedy: manufacturers combine new e-business systems with process change to alleviate their pain. (E-Business/Software Solutions).(how companies use software to cope with challenges)(Industry Overview)
July 1, 2002... WHETHER IT'S IN THE OFFICE, THE PLANT or the warehouse, most manufacturers have a blood trail. It's whatever part of the business that's costing the company big time in terms of late shipments, lost customers, production snafus or excessive...

Benefiting from the boom: A wealth of software categories and vendors give manufacturers many paths to improvement. (E-Business/Software Solutions).(Industry Overview)
July 1, 2002... SINCE THE START OF THE 1990S, there certainly hasn't been any shortage of software for manufacturing. Over the last dozen years software companies have come and gone, but the overall market for systems designed for the needs of industry has...

Made for midsize: smaller manufacturers seek precise solutions for their complex needs. (E-Business/Software Solutions).
July 1, 2002... IF THERE'S ONE THING THAT BRIAN Lyman has learned, it's that business success requires more than an excellent product. These days, having the right software also is crucial. "It's essential to develop a workable strategy," says Lyman,...

Grab your partner: ask tough questions before choosing vendors, consultants and integrators. (E-Business/Software Solutions).(steps to take before making decisions on enterprise resource software)
July 1, 2002... YOU THINK YOU HAVE IT CHALlenges? Put yourself in Ed Brady's shoes. The former divisional IT manager for Lockheed Martin Corp. was hired by American Meter Co., a division of ELSTER-AMCO, to access and interpret the information it needed to make...

Locations.(Ford Motor Co. plant management)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Plant * Ford Motor Co. announced in May that beginning in the summer of 2003 it would begin producing the Ford Escape, a small sport-utility vehicle, at the 3.7 million square-foot Ohio Assembly Plant. The plant, in Avon Lake, Ohio, has...

DuPont: safety starts at the top. (Best Practices).(work safety practices)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The employees of DuPont & Co.'s titanium technologies facility in Uberaba, Brazil, recently planted trees to commemorate the site's 10th anniversary. They had several things to celebrate, including the fact that since production began in 1992,...

Hello again: Iridium Satellite resurrects satellite communications system and seeks success with tighter focus. (Bandwidth).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... IF YOU THOUGHT THE DEMISE OF IRIDIUM LLC in 2000 spelled the end of the world's first global wireless communications system, you were wrong. The original consortium that launched the $5 billion telecommunications system, which included a...

Manufacturing a U.S. recovery? (Financial & Economic Trends).(manufacturing industry could help economy)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Maybe they are among the few remaining promoters of that economic temptress known as Rosy Scenario. Or perhaps they wish only that their words become self-fulfilling prophecy. Nevertheless, some economists contend that the capital spending...

Steel's victory hard to swallow: tariffs will mean a weaker dollar, lost jobs in other industries. (Evans on the Economy).(new steel tariff's effects on economy)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... We are about to find out anew whether a weaker dollar really is good for America, as Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal memorably remarked in 1978. The 50% decline in the dollar relative to major foreign currencies in the 1970s was...

The Supply-Chain Council (SCC). (Associations).(elects new members)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Supply-Chain Council (SCC) elected new members to its European Leadership Team during a SCC-Europe Chapter meeting in Mainz, Germany. The team is comprised of supply-chain professionals from SCC-Europe member companies and includes...

American Machine Tool Distributors' Association. (Associations).(Robert A. Johnson elected chairman)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Robert A. Johnson, co-founder and president of J & H Machine Tools Inc., was elected chairman of the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association. The association's chairman-elect is Ralph Hegman, president of Hegman Machine Tools, Maple...

National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). (Associations).(elected to 2002 Associations Advance American Honor Roll)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) has been elected to the 2002 Associations Advance American Honor Roll, a national awards competition sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives. The award was given for NAM's Site...

Motion Industries Inc. (Awards).(receives Supplier Award of Excellence)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Motion Industries Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Co., was recently honored by Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia with a Supplier Award of Excellence. Motion Industries has more than 500 operations across North America...

2002 Salzberg Medallion. (Awards).(Maria A. McIntyre and William C. Copacino awarded)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Maria A. McIntyre, executive vice president and COO of the Council of Logistics Management, Oak Brook, Ill., will be one of two recipients of the 2002 Salzberg Medallion from Syracuse University's School of Management, Syracuse, N.Y. The other...

Atlas Van Lines. (Companies).(Rick Olson named CFO)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Richard (Rick) Olson has been named CFO for Atlas Van Lines and its holding company, Atlas World Group. In his new position, Olson will oversee all financial aspects of Atlas World Group and its subsidiaries. He most recently served the company...

Omnexus. (Companies).(new product vendors added to marketplace)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The product offerings of Toshiba Machine, JSW Plastics Machinery, Milacron Plastics Technologies, Sumitomo Plastics Machinery, Toyo Makura and Ube Machinery are now available on the Omnexus equipment marketplace, an online resource for...

Events.
July 1, 2002... July 28-Aug. 1: Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-02) and the Fourteenth Innovation Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-02) Shaw Conference Centre Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ncai@aaai.org...