Lead Interviews

The outsider’s insider
Freeman Thomas has a track record of innovative car designs – the VW New Beetle, the Audi TT, the Chrysler 300 – that have helped bring their respective brands back from the brink. Now he’s the Director of the Advanced Engineering Design Studio at Ford. Can his designs save the troubled auto giant? Senior Editor Ben Thompson catches up with a design legend to find out...

• Chrysler flexes its manufacturing muscle
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LEAD INTERVIEWS

• The lean machine
• State of the industry
• 3D Systems Offers Packed Agenda for World Conference
• Reality Aware Systems within Supply Chains
• The outsider’s insider
• Chrysler flexes its manufacturing muscle

MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS

• Executive roundtable: Smarter thinking
• Genesis64: The next generation for manufacturing
• Vicor Corporation
• Production Management Software
• FactoryMRI in the metal fabrication products industry
• Case Study: Profiting from margin analysis
• Lean scheduling: the missing link
• Getting over the wall: how to do business with China
• Moving materials with RFID

MATERIALS HANDLING

• Something wiki this way comes
• IT investment driving innovation
• Executive insight: Mastering MDM
• Flying high with Rockwell Collins
• Komatsu Forklift corporate profile
• IntelliTrak delivers more and more every day!!!
• White Systems: Innovative storage and retrieval
• The case for fast charging in new generation manufacturing facilities
• Wireless technologies yield new efficiencies on factory floor
• Towards the intelligent enterprise
• Manufacturing for a new generation
• The five dirty little secrets of MES
• Inside the mind of a champion
• The thought leader

PRODUCT DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT

• Going digital
• Picture perfect
• Ask the expert: A new model for best-in-class performance?
• Rotorcraft design takes flight
• The next industrial revolution
• Ask the expert: Realizing the rapid manufacturing dream
• HighJump Software in Manufacturing: A History of Enabling Excellence on the Shop Floor
• Enabling innovation through PLM
• Model perfect
• Why IP is the currency of tomorrow

SUPPLY CHAIN

• Executive roundtable: The strategic supply chain
• Uncovering the true costs of global sourcing
• Company profile
• Lansdale Warehouse
• Company profile
• The SPX effect
• Chain reactions
• Linking up for success