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...
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Going digital
Although slow to take off amongst some manufacturing sectors, digital manufacturing’s potential is finally being realized on a much greater scale. The result is that manufacturing processes can be greatly speeded up, costs saved and lengthy installation of unnecessary equipment avoided. Dick Slansky, Senior Analyst for PLM and Discrete Manufacturing at ARC Advisory Group, highlights some of the benefits.
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Towards the intelligent enterprise
Better utilization of data across the organization continues to be a top priority for companies across industries. As such, business intelligence, performance management and analytics should be top-of-mind topics. But how are manufacturing organizations approaching this challenge? Aberdeen Group’s Jim Trost provides the answers.
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