White papers about Microsoft technology in the manufacturing industry
Security
Microsoft security overview for the manufacturing industry
In this white paper by the ARC Advisory Group, learn about the security issues facing the manufacturing industry and how Microsoft is helping the industry confront this important problem.
Collaborative product development
Collaborative product development reference framework
Explore an overview of collaborative product development (CPD) solutions and the technologies and techniques needed to implement CPD solutions in manufacturing.
Consumer Packaged Goods
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2: RFID for Everyman
(AMR Research, September 14, 2007, .pdf, 156K) A long time in the coming, Microsoft has finally launched its RFID BizTalk Server. The ramifications of its introduction will reverberate throughout the world of RFID, making this a watershed moment in the ongoing effort to create mass adoption of the technology.
Making RFID Deployments Easy, Simple and Economical
Supply chain
Enabling visibility in the adaptive supply chain
Discover the significant opportunities available to companies that become more connected to their suppliers and customers.
Automotive
Desk-side supercomputing
Microsoft brings high-performance computing (HPC) to the desktops of the auto industry for entirely new approaches to engineering and design.
High tech and electronics
Higher yields: E-commerce investments increase electronics companies' revenues and profits
Examine the growing trend to optimize extended supply chains in the electronics industry and notice how the handful of companies that have done so successfully to date have excelled at boosting their sales and profitability.
Oil and gas
Project intelligence for global energy infrastructure development
Discover how the Project Intelligence solution holds the promise of dramatically affecting organizational financial performance by ensuring that expensive global infrastructure construction projects effectively use available capital. Learn how a 360-degree view into project processes provides stakeholders with the data and information they need, in a timely manner, to make better decisions.
Oilfield connectivity: Capturing the value of the digital era
Examine the Oilfield Connectivity Solution Framework by Microsoft and how it provides exploration and production (E&P) operators with the foundation of Web services that easily connects software, data, field and office information, systems, and people.
Utilities
Dealing with NERC/CIP standards – a new ballgame
Discover how Microsoft's ubiquity in utility Enterprises, its enabling technologies and architectures are making it easier, and faster, to develop the necessary solutions to deal with the new Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards.
Worldwide utility building boom requires new project intelligence tools: The tools are ready
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