Trend Report

Manufacturing Intelligence Tools Help Deliver Lean Software

A No-Frills Approach To Plant Visibility Brings Fast Results

Roy C. Wildeman
 and  three contributors
Mar 12, 2009

Summary

Today's IT environments in manufacturing organizations are characterized by disparate, siloed applications segmented by different data models and jury-rigged integration constructs — a reality that makes maintenance as well as future application development terrifically onerous. Although the root causes of application proliferation and myriad interface standards will continue to persist, manufacturing intelligence development tools can help application development professionals cut through the systems' complexity, bring functionally to the business "just in time," and deliver the Lean Software remedy manufacturing IT has been looking for.

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