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Pivotree, a provider of frictionless commerce solutions, reported achievements in its ongoing partnership with Sonepar Canada to automate its data enrichment processes. As a result, the company said, it has [...]

OVERVIEW Statistical process control has played a large role in semiconductor manufacturing, but sophisticated physically based models recently have revealed an underlying structure rather than random processes with unknown causes […]

The Star Enterprise Delaware City Refinery employs two turbine-driven, dual-case centrifugal compressors to transport light hydrocarbons produced by its Fluid Coker Unit to downstream process units. In considering a new […]

Integrating a document imaging system is a Herculean task for IT managers, but the paybacks are substantial, according to early implementers Most corporations are swamped by a deluge of paper. […]

As workstations and PCs continue to advance, opening up new applications like transaction processing and data redundancy, the need for significantly higher-capacity data storage becomes more evident. Stepping in to […]

For Aydin Controls, the challenge was updating a partly mainframe, partly manual system to keep track of parts and workers on an assembly line. Links to the mainframe had to […]

Microsoft Windows™ brought the pluses of the Mac to the PC world, and it went a little further with multitasking and dynamic data interchange. But it needed some fine tuning. […]

With a new system of function blocks to implement ASICs, equipment designers and producers can now procure ICs faster than ever before. The Digit 3000 system developed by ITT Semiconductors […]

We last reviewed Computer Information Systems' (CIS) RoboMon in March 1990 (see 'Automatic Management'). That was version 2.0. Since then, RoboMon, which monitors a running system and performs system management […]

Anyone who's ever purchased a Mac for home use knows that it's easier to justify the acquisition as a checkbook balancer than as an entertainment center -- even if the […]

As users' computing environments become increasingly larger, more heterogeneous and more distributed, the complexity of systems management seems to be growing exponentially. At the same time, IS staffing resources remain […]

Graphics-based software-design tools found in computer-aided software-engineering (CASE) systems have grown more popular over the past few years, helping many software engineers with structured software design. However, today's graphics-based software-design [...]

Financial messaging and transaction processing software automates money flow and accounting processes in a bank. Manufacturing resource planning and process control software can automate many aspects of manufacturing. What computers […]

Corporate America has a new slogan: 'Don't leave the office without it.' The slogan does not refer to a credit card, but to the portable PC, now taking on the […]

PIECE BY PIECE, BANKS ARE CHIPPING AWAY AT THE DEPRESSION-ERA FIREWALLS LIMITING THEIR UNDERWRITING POWERS. BUT DO THEY HAVE THE SYSTEMS IN PLACE TO COMPETE WITH THE SECURITIES INDUSTRY GIANTS? […]

At Work in a Doctor's Office Project: Produce a medical office management system with more flexibility and power than others currently available, and concentrate particularly on comprehensive insurance claim management. […]

Payback Project: Bond sales may give municipal agencies the money they need to manage major improvements; but an application called ADAM gives them the record-keeping capabilities they need to administer […]

The Challenge Of Integration Image-processing technology is on a fast track these days. The pace of new product announcements alone should be enough to make information systems managers pay heed. […]

Sweden-based truck manufacturer left proprietary system by the side of the road after trading up to relational database-based manufacturing application. The new system cut delivery time in half. Relational database […]

Several years ago, engineers at Littell, Inc. (Chicago, IL) began development work on one of the world's most advanced scroll sheeting lines. A scroll sheeting line processes coils of tin-plate […]

ETO Sterilization Inc. certainly isn't a household name, but as the nation's leading sterilizer of spices, its services reach most American home and restaurant dinner tables every day. In its […]

New government regulations have forced the water industry to go back to basics, starting with geography lessons. Resting in the sleepy village of Snodland, Mid-Kent Water is using IT to […]

Ponderay Newsprint Co, was founded by a consortium of five U.S. newspaper publishers and a forest products company. Its purpose: to provide a conistent, cost-effective supply of continuous web paper […]

To raise profits and cut costs, medical supplier Rusch UK sold a radically new system to its sales team. Ask a sales team what their job depends on and you'll […]

The Apollo Group, Inc., headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz., believes that the charter of any educational institution is the effective dissemination of quality course material. As a provider to 16,000 students […]

Boosting productivity while improving product quality is clearly the challenge of the '90s for the U.S. automobile industry. Included in the list of companies taking on this challenge are not […]

'We have a very sophisticated network,' explains Leo Stanford, the director of data processing at Calcasieu Parish School District. The district encompasses 57 schools, each containing an HP QS16SX microcomputer […]

Although 1992 has finally arrived, politicians continue to bicker about the meaning of words. Financial institutions and businesses at the rock face of international trade, however, have been preparing for […]

The investment banking division of Merrill Lynch has installed an intelligent front end to connect investment bankers and databases. Called Cicero, the project has been streamlining work by running Microsoft […]

Electronic mail has become a core application in many offices, and its benefits to operations staff are numerous. But even the most sophisticated electronic mail packages available on the HP […]

In March of 1990 the faculty of engineering at the University of Regina, Canada, finalized the construction of a new Computer-Aided Engineering Center (CAEC), which replaced a conventional drafting lab. […]