Lean Manufacturing Through Factory Floor Innovation

Taking the concepts of the Toyota System and enhancing them with today’s information systems technology has been the key to allow some manufacturers ... can be demonstrated in a number of ways: Minimize cycle time Minimize inventory Meet customer expectations ... a downtime occurrence, waiting for a tool/die/mold or other necessary piece of equipment. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 05:45:21

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Ravelong SL & Doubledown's DJ & Club Shop 2009 & Bassline Junkiez Island

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/BassLine%20Island/191/64/701Ravelong Productions and Doubledown's DJ Shop has been displaced over the past few ... stay for Ravelong as we transform our wares and inventory for 2009. I don't want to mention ... Furniture & DecorationsPROMOTION SUPPLIES-Auto Group Adders-Search Result Systems-Crowd Gathering [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 15:16:00

POS Software

Point of sale (POS) software integrates the physical devices in the POS systems with computer language and thus facilitates automated data ... , but also helps to run them systematically, keeping track of income and expenditures, inventory, stock ... are computers, printers, cash registers, scanners, and keyboards. Barcode printing software, cash [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 16:46:23

Clarity Consulting Helps Follett Higher Education Group Expand Market With Direct-to-Customer Sales Solution

Clarity Consulting Inc. today announced the full deployment of a new Wholesale Order Management system for Follett Higher Education Group, ... software to support a number of key e-commerce functions such as: allocating and posting inventory ... ), creating better accuracy, flexibility and control for Follett and the consumer. Using Microsoft [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 00:00:28

The Free Bird Database

Back in 1919, Proffitt’s opened their first department store in downtown Maryville, TN ... the intercom telephone system. And certainly, no one could miss the pneumatic tubes, zipping around documents ... cash register. Prior to computerized cash registers, sales and inventory management was arduous [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 14:00:00

What is a Diku?

I wish someone who has a good memory of these things and was there, would document that the key game design features of a DIKU are, ... unlocked new abilities. Classes were immutable (though eventually systems such as remorting, etc were ... was generally on a fixed rate, with “faster attacks” in cruder systems consisting of actually [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 07:03:25

Revolution of supply chain management due to internet

by Zach Halon The traditional vision of Supply Chain management represents only one dimension of a business environment that is growing increasingly ... out the door. It often involved questionable inventory forecasts, rigid manufacturing plans ... companies, avoid costly disasters, reduce administrative overhead, reduce unnecessary inventory, decrease [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:09:00

Desperation Has An Ugly Face

It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. “A lot has happened since 2004 — in the housing market and in the lives of everyone associated with Vantage Pointe, the largest residential project ever to be built in downtown San Diego. Jennifer Bishop made a 5 percent deposit on a unit in Vantage Pointe in one of the first phases, she said [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 19:49:04

Should second-hand book stores pay royalties?

I had not been aware of this until a LiveJournal post from Steve Miller brought this to my attention, but after checking around (and being pointed to a link by Sharon Lee) I was able to find a fair amount of supporting evidence. It seems there is a movement to require second-hand (or “used”) book stores to pay royalties on books they resell [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 19:13:17

Layered Tech Automates Web Hosting

Layered Technologies Launches Automated Web Hosting Infrastructure To Streamline Server Selection and Provisioning New system provides nearly ... customer experiences. The platform, called “Astro,” is a unique combination of hardware and software that provides flexibility, removes delays, and increases efficiencies during server procurement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:15:13

two here) Without further ado...enjoy Sandy Carter! Case Study 3: IBM video game seeds market This holiday season, buying a Nintendo Wii, or the latest online games need not make you feel guilty. According to The Apply Group, at least 100 of the Global Fortune 500 will use gaming to educate their employees by 2012, with the USA, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 14:30:00

Global Warming Update: 'Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age'

As Democrats and their president-elect -- with invaluable assistance from their media minions -- continue spreading climate hysteria in order to raise taxes and redistribute wealth, a possibly inconvenient truth has just been presented to the international community: "The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 16:57:12

Nortel Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

In the about us page on Nortel’s website, they proudly state “Hundreds of millions of people, Fortune 500 companies, and government institutions around the world trust their networks to Nortel’s reliable and secure solutions.” Today, Nortel defined “reliable” by commencing comprehensive business and financial restructuring [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:02:05

A National Renewable Ammonia Architecture

This white paper describes the current manufacture and uses of ammonia as well as describing a path forward to a fully renewable future for this vital fertilizer ingredient. The primary author and editor is Neal Rauhauser, known on TOD SacredCowTipper, with assistance in its development rendered by Dave Bradley, known as nb41, Bryan Lutter, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 15:39:19

A National Renewable Ammonia Architecture

This white paper describes the current manufacture and uses of ammonia as well as describing a path forward to a fully renewable future for this vital fertilizer ingredient. The primary author and editor is Neal Rauhauser, known on TOD SacredCowTipper, with assistance in its development rendered by Dave Bradley, known as nb41, Bryan Lutter, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 22:15:37

Sheetz, Giant Oil, AAFES Strengthen Technology Solutions

NEW YORK – In a sign that technology plays an ever-important role in modern retailing, three convenience store chains — Sheetz, ... 130 convenience stores throughout Florida and Ohio, will implement Enterprise Software Systems’ (ESS ... with tenant turnover and significant growth, ESS’ software ensures that everything is in order [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 23:07:31

Mobile Technology Marketing Insights From Tamara Gruber

When I think of mobile, I think of Tamara Gruber, who specializes in marketing mobile technology companies here in the northeast ... mobile technology companies face greater challenges than an internet service or enterprise software ... amount of expertise and support.  Next, there are many factors that you just can’t control.  For example [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 18:55:11

New Missile Kills Air Defenses DEAD

A deadly-effective supersonic missile, designed to take out enemy air defenses, is getting a major upgrade to make it even more lethal than before. I have an article in this month's Defense Technology International about it. Soon after radar-guided anti-aircraft missiles became a threat, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 14:13:19

Distributism, The Wave of The Future

Karl Marx was found of saying that communism was the “wave of the future.” It seemed in the 60's that he might have been right, as socialism seemed to be marching across Asia, Africa, and South America, coming to within 90 miles of our own shores. Now the claim is ridiculed on the pedantic grounds that openly communist states have either collapsed, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 23:03:00

Baghdad’s Post-Blast Wall Bibliothèque

As I kept flipping through the images in this gallery of Baghdad’s incredible blast wall murals, recalling fairly recent news of how the U.S. military had begun dismantling some of the barricades in Dora (a district in Baghdad), and even more recently how control of the Green Zone was just handed over to the Iraqi government, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 01:01:00

Book Publishers Want Better Forecasting Systems

IBS completed a survey of publishers and book distributors at the Frankfurt Book Fair and found that 95 percent wished they could have better ... profitability. Good inventory management, tight control of warehousing and distribution and sophisticated ... creates financial pressure on the business that they would like to ease.IBS Publishing ERP software [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 15:27:00

Chronos eStockCard Free Edition 2.1.4

Manage inventory accuracy, FIFO, traceability, stock movements, with Email Alert, Barcode, and Screen DIY for Business & warehouse. Chronos e-StockCard comes in a joint of compact version of Warehouse Management System (WMS) as well. It assists the storekeepers to Put and Pick their goods in a more efficient and accurate manner [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 01:43:47

DrumBeat: December 9, 2008

Oil and OPEC: Can the Cartel Possibly Cut Production Enough? Just how daunting is OPEC’s challenge to rein in falling oil prices? Beyond its control, if economist and oil-market analyst Philip Verleger is right. Mr. Verleger, a former Carter administration official, academic, and energy-industry consultant, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 13:44:44

BCD Travel: Industry Leadership Through Thought and Action

Helping You Achieve Your Program Goals Spotlight on the Asia Pacific Online Market The Asia Pacific region contains nearly one-third of the world’s population. Within 10 years, regional travel spend in Asia Pacific will exceed both that of the U.S. and Western Europe. In fact, current Internet users already exceed those of Western nations [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:50:15

The Really Scary Part

TVA's undone Kingston coal ash sequestration system was not even the largest in the country according to a McClatchy report from further south:Georgia Power plants ranked high nationally for the amount of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments, according to information from the 2006 Toxic Release Inventory compiled [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 05:07:00

Open App Factory - Business Application Widgets

We are happy to announce that we are ready to add our own contribution to the world of open source ERP, with the alpha release of Open App Factory ... ERP and CRM systems. The purpose of OAF is two-fold: extend functionality of current ERP and CRM systems, and improve user experience. A sample of such applications were published in past blog posts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 14:32:09

Ignatieff’s Dilemma: Coping with the Conservative Budget

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has been saying lately that the budget the Conservative are drafting, to be presented to Parliament in a few days, is not his budget, it’s the Harper government’s budget. Fair enough, but if the Liberals vote for the budget, it will become their budget as well. That’s how a minority government works [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:54:25

Dedicated Server Provider, Layered Tech, Unveils Automated Infrastructure

Plano, Texas - (The Hosting News) - January 14, 2009 - Provider of ''on demand'' IT infrastructure, Layered Technologies, ... and provisioning of servers for both customers and partners. A result of the company's business ... management program, which delivers tiered levels of security, support, monitoring and specialized [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:43:39

Dedicated Server Provider, Layered Tech, Unveils Automated Infrastructure

Plano, Texas - (The Hosting News) - January 14, 2009 - Provider of ''on demand'' IT infrastructure, Layered Technologies, ... and provisioning of servers for both customers and partners. A result of the company's business ... management program, which delivers tiered levels of security, support, monitoring and specialized [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:43:39

Getting Started In Real Estate Investing

Getting Started In Real Estate Investing January 14th, 2009 Education in real estate is relatively easy and cheaper to find. There are those who have thorough knowledge about the subject, go on to teaching and organize courses on it. However, it has been a tried and tested theory that if someone wants to be successful, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 04:45:06

Dedicated Server Provider, Layered Tech, Unveils Automated Infrastructure

Plano, Texas - Web Hosting News - January 14, 2009 - Provider of ”on demand” IT infrastructure, Layered Technologies, ... combination of hardware and software that provides flexibility, removes delays, and increases efficiencies ... the equipment and populates the Layered Tech inventory, making the server immediately available [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:46:40

Manhattan Absorption Rate = 12 Months**

A: Wanted to pass on some information from Vanderbilt Appraisers, courtesy of Michael Vargas, ... to clear out all the inventory, given current sales pace. The higher the rate, the more of a buyer's market it is because of rising inventory and slowing sales volume. Now, I put a '**' asterisk in the title [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:35:00

Ask SCORE How to Survive Tough Economic Times

Washington, DC (PRESS RELEASE - November 4, 2008) - Entrepreneurs face challenges on many fronts during the next 12 months, including lower consumer spending, rising unemployment, tightening credit, and inflation pressures that hit both businesses and customers [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 23:00:08

Advice to Pres. Obama #1: An Actuary's Impractical Perspective

The suggestion was made to Oil Drum staff that some of us might want to write recommendations relating to President Obama's energy policy. It seems to me that several steps come before energy policy: we need to get the worst of our financial problems behind us and we need to understand where we are, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:42:43

Interview: Bruce Campbell

Production still from My Name Is BruceDepending on who you're talking to, Bruce Campbell either needs no introduction, or an extremely detailed one. A beloved b-movie actor, TV star, author, and all-around cult icon, Campbell's following is as obsessive and dedicated as they come [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 15:18:39

ICR Xchange Summary: PacSun

Today, the annual ICR Xchange conference was held in Dana Point, California, at the luxurious St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort. Transworld Business was on-site and sat in to a few of the summaries that were pertinent to our industry. Companies provided some information on how 2008 went, and their focuses and predictions for 2009 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:47:15

Organize Your Pantry and Freezer to Save Money

Organize Your Pantry and Freezer to Save Money by Deal Seeking Mom on January 12, 2009 Mandi of OrganizingYourWay.net shares her tips today. [ ... organize For many people, the idea of getting organized evokes images of fancy organizing systems ... to do this. One way is to keep a written inventory for both your pantry and freezer. There are great [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 09:45:53

C-5 Galaxy taking off with a fatal undercarriage Problem

C-5 Galaxy taking off with undercarriage retraction problems. In that situation, they can probably get the gear back down OK ... to get new parts into the inventory in the 2001-2006 time frame, retraction failures dropped ... and electrics all over it, and is more complex than many entire aircraft systems. C-5 Galaxy Fatal [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 18:27:34

Right of entry removed by New Labour: Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill

Compare our old Rights with what Labour are planning. first up the past:linkIn 1760, William Pitt (the Elder) made a famous declaration of this right. "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow through it. The rain may enter. The storms may enter [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 11:04:00

Entrepreneur Interview: Maury of PennyPortrait.com

Today, I wanted to share an interview involving a unique website business thought up, constructed by, and maintained primarily by just one person ... to do this project was to learn how a retail business works with inventory, suppliers, sales tax, credit [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 06:57:54

Posts about Home Supply as of January 14, 2009

Choosing Your Water Filter - invertedumbrellas.com 01/14/2009 by Andrew Caxton Most of the population in the United States agree ( ... users of these systems. This information will help Clean Your Air with an Air Cooler; Clean ... users of these systems. This information will help Build Very Cheap Solar Panel and Windmill… [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 22:37:33

In this lecture, I get to the punch line and offer my explanation of unemployment ... , we need cell phones and cell phone towers. Instead of operators, we have computerized systems for connecting calls and automated voice-response systems for looking up phone numbers. (To be sure, even [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 17:31:56

Seeking Funding Ideas for Court*

QUESTION: We as a court are in the process of looking under every rock for potential funding sources. To that end we are interested in getting ideas and tips about short- or long-term legislation and policies around the nation that have provided directed funding to court programs or projects [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:25:50

2008 Terrorism

As 2008 comes to a close we must look back at America's security and terrorism in general around the world ... , gaping holes in our security. Dave Gaubatz* comments on the recent Department of Homeland Security's ... the report itself to be a national security threat for America ??? more importantly for the children [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 01:13:07

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA YouTube has long resisted selling search results, but it has now caved in ... . This should generate substantial new revenues for Google. YouTube has a lot of search inventory ... ) fancast Fancast The days of buying packaged software loaded onto CDs are numbered. Today [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 00:00:10

ShopAssist Point Of Sale System 4.99

ShopAssist includes the following functionality: Cash Sales C.O.D. Sales Account Sales (Debtors) Hire Sales (for video rental stores) Appro transactions Lay By transactions Stock Receiving Inventory Control Service Fees Labour Charges Suspend/Retrieve sale Item lookup by Item Description, Item Code, Barcode, point and click [more...]

Date: 2008-08-31 06:02:23

Roots and Trunks

To the end we may know and clearly underſtand what the Trunk, Stalk, or Branch of a Plant is; I ſhall, by theſe figures here before us, deſcribe the ſeveral Parts whereof it is compounded.And, for examples ſake, I ſhall in the firſt place, deſcribe the Trunks of ſix ſeveral kinds of Plants, as they appear to, and are obſervable by the naked eye [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 00:55:00

Government Cannot Spend Us Out Of Retiring Boomers

  Well we now see how vague campaign promises from a young and inexperienced presidential candidate can transform rapidly into really, ... be better to have the individuals succeed and wean them from public support systems which [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 15:19:04

Dedicated Server Provider, Layered Technologies, Unveils Automated Infrastructur

Dedicated Server Provider, Layered Technologies, Unveils Automated Infrastructur Plano, Texas - (The Hosting News) ... of hardware and software that provides flexibility, removes delays, and increases efficiencies during server ... and populates the Layered Tech inventory, making the server immediately available to both customers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:43:39

Scent Marketing Success: Step 8 of 10

Our series on scent marketing continues with number 8 - Commit to your scent marketing program Believe it or not, the main hindrance to successful scent marketing is poor tracking. Evaluating the “before-during ... has not been measured. The biggest issue with installed systems is not reliability of the delivery system [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 05:50:35

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