Likewise Digital Equipment focused on its profit margin in computer-aided design and manufacturing software only to be destroyed by its lower margin but higher volume competitor AutoCad.
Computing has revolutionized manufacturing since the nineties when solid modelling came of age and Unigraphics and Catia, began developing manufacturing software that worked from these solid models.
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Holleran joined Datasweep when it had no customers and led sales, marketing and business development to the point that Datasweep became the market leader in manufacturing and analytics software.
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These would include people and money first, and maybe software or manufacturing later to produce and deliver the solution.
Much of the technology that is commonplace today in manufacturing, advanced materials, software and electronics originated as projects sponsored by the DoD.
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By providing this secure environment for multiple silicon, software and device manufacturing partners, the joint venture will enable greater operational efficiency across the ecosystem and the industry as a whole.
And the Xbox is merely Microsoft's first stab at manufacturing hardware that runs its own software and online services.
Both brothers subsequently built a software business that helped manufacturing companies optimize the efficiency of their plants and shop floors.
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Fancy software automates design, manufacturing and purchasing.
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Sometimes that value can be captured through manufacturing, but in other cases through software.
The manufacturing industry, by contrast, wanted software that integrated purchasing, inventory, production and sales.
But McKee Foods still uses Oracle for its financial system, and Oracle, it turns out, has acquired the software firms McKee uses for manufacturing.
The reason I say this is that manufacturing can now innovate at the speed of software, more or less.
In the future, I think you will see more unified manufacturing where a company does the hardware and software.
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They resell software and devices made by their manufacturing partners to hospitals and then get hired to implement the new technology.
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In fact, the cost of software-driven machines is driving manufacturing down, as our strange rise in productivity during a recession suggests.
Now they have revealed dozens of vulnerabilities in the supervisory, control and data acquisition (SCADA) software that much national infrastructure and manufacturing industry depends upon.
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It is run from Cambridge, but marketing is based in Silicon Valley, much of the software is developed in India and manufacturing is done in Dresden as well as China.
For example, a lot of critical infrastructure and manufacturing processes use supervisory, control and data acquisition software (SCADAS) that, as it turns out, have lots of security holes.
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Manufacturing companies need efficient telecoms, insurance, finance and software services to succeed.
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The software allows traceability in the supply chain between farmers, manufacturing companies and wholesale trade.
Take, for example, a manufacturing organization trying to build the business case to invest in implementing software to track their internal carbon footprint.
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It currently provides a 9% tax deduction from net income for businesses engaged in "qualified production activities" in the U.S. Those activities include manufacturing a product, selling, leasing or licensing it, and engineering and software activities related to that production.
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But the Fusion was the first Ford vehicle developed with advanced 3-D digital software that allowed engineers to instantly make the changes and simulate how the manufacturing process would be affected.
One of the volunteers was Ali Amirnazmi, an Iranian-born Stanford-educated chemical engineer who had developed powerful software, which he sold by subscription, for strategic planning in the chemical manufacturing industries.
Recruited by Jobs from Compaq in 1998, Cook got Apple out of the messy business of manufacturing so Jobs could focus the company on what it does best: industrial design and software.
The valley responded by revamping its own manufacturing operations, outsourcing many of them, and by diversifying into other areas, particularly computer software.
From software to completed designs, Hillcrest offers an unmatched suite of motion solutions, with global expertise in software, hardware, MEMS, DSP, industrial design, mechanical design, and manufacturing.
According to the Konza information website, the city wants to attract business process outsourcing, software development, data centres, disaster recovery centres, call centres and light assembly manufacturing industries.
The new Handheld PC software is more aggressively targeted at corporate customers in specific industries, such as healthcare, financial services and manufacturing.
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