lean manufacturing

The Lean Advantage

Lean manufacturing is one of most important business processes in manufacturing today. Started in the mid 1940s as Toyota was trying to catch up with US car manufacturing companies, it was designed and implemented by visionaries during a period of about... Control Engineering Asia (CE Asia)
Manufacturing Software

Automotive Parts Company in Thailand Implements Oracle E-Business Suite

lean manufacturing operations, Oracle has announced. AAPICO will soon be ready for fulfilling complex customer requests while reducing waste in its supply chain. AAPICO wanted to move towards a demand-driven supply chain to accommodate the just-in-time... EDN Asia
Automotive - Software

Visteon-Shanghai Joint Venture Turns to QAD to Enable Lean Manufacturing

lean manufacturing operations and achieve exceptional inventory and manpower efficiencies. The implementation of QAD's Global Enterprise Edition (GXE) has enabled Yanfeng Visteon to gain dramatic reductions in material inventory, substantial reductions... EDN Asia
Automotive - Management - Software

Teradyne plans more cost cuts, lowers guidance

The new, unspecified cuts will bring the test company's total planned 2009 cost reductions to approximately $190 million. External Source

EDA revenues show unprecedented global decline

Electronic Design Automation Consortium Chair and Mentor Graphics CEO Walden Rhines speaks exclusively with EDN on EDAC's Q4 and 2008 numbers, showing industry revenues down by almost 18% year over year for the final quarter. There were some bright spots ... External Source

Mitigating tapeout risk

Alleviate the risks inherent in tapeout by implementing automated sign-off, partnering with foundries, performing design application checking and statistical sensitivity analysis during physical verification, and targeting older process-technology no... External Source

Agilent cuts 2700 jobs, restructures electronic measurement business

Agilent's president and CEO says business remains "severely depressed" and that he sees "no prospects for a meaningful recovery in the … External Source

Keithley discontinuing test product line, plans further job cuts

The parametric test product line discontinuation and 6% layoff statement comes just days after Keithley Instruments announced that it was notified by … External Source

Teradyne lays off 14% of staff, implements 10% pay cut

Teradyne's CEO claims the ATE supplier's expansion plans are on schedule and continues to expect market share gains, despite reporting a weak Q4 and c … External Source

Turning today’s manufacturing trends into opportunities

lean manufacturing In addition to MES tools, increasingly, more companies are recognizing the competitive advantages created by applyinglean principles in their production. Pioneered by Toyota’s production system and perfected within the automotive supply... Electronics Manufacturing Asia (EM Asia)
Software/Process Control Systems

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