This e-guide features two shop-floor quality-control articles from our award-winning editorial team. Read on to learn critical advice for increasing your manufacturing without compromising compliance or quality. 

For years, Donnelly managed operations using an OS/2 operating system and various software packages. While Donnelly achieved much success using the OS/2 platform and manual scheduling, the company’s growth eventually began outpacing the system’s capacity. With EnterpriseIQ in place, Donnelly has seen improvements in every aspect of its business. 

This paper illustrates how IFS Applications support lean principles, particularly in the many manufacturing environments that require both rate-based and order-based shop floor execution. This hybrid approach lets you go lean step by step, as you are able, not because an inflexible system forces you to do so. 

Choosing the right ERP solution for your manufacturing operations is a very important decision, one that you will be forced to live with for years to come. Learn the key elements that need to be evaluated. 

View this brief video to learn how original equipment manufacturer (OEM) supplier Ralco Industries was able to reduce on-hand inventory by 15% and freight costs by over 20%, improve product quality and customer service, and create process consistency with an implementation of easy-to-use, online enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. 

This paper describes the warning signs that an ERP system is killing a business, and suggests how companies can thrive with a new approach to business systems. 

Data center professionals can rid themselves of messy racks, sub-standard under floor air distribution, and cable sprawl with a minimum of heartache and expense. This paper outlines several innovative approaches for dealing with the symptoms of chaos and for eliminating the root causes of disorder. 

This week’s Computer Weekly kicks off our Buyer's Guide to data security by looking at the changing role of the IT security chief. We also examine why flexible working is proving so slow to roll out and we talk to the UK's air traffic control operator about its ambitious desktop virtualisation project. 

Your service desk should be the one stop shop for internal and external customers. But, in order for IT to be the orchestrator of knowledge and the service catalog, you need to provide excellent service and quick response times. Watch this webcast and discover the most current recommendations for service delivery and management best practices. 

A recent IDC survey found that for every US$1 spent on IT hardware, the power and cooling costs is 54 cents. In 2011, the energy costs are expected to rise to 74 cents. Listen to this podcast and find out how you can deploy a Scalable Modular data center in 8-12 weeks at up to 20% less overall cost and save up to 30% on energy costs per year. 

Companies are increasingly dependent on technology to achieve business goals. As a company grows, changes, and reaches for new opportunities, IT infrastructure tends to expand. 

USA Technologies sought a solution that offered better QA and testing to meet the expanding demand of transactions at its 48,000 point-of-sale, cashless micro-transaction machines. This paper outlines the solution it chose and how it offers an automated software load and elevated performance testing. Read this to learn more about its benefits.