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Learn more about Oracle MOC

Posted by Amit K. Singh on May 27, 2009

Here’s a recent podcast that tells you more about Oracle Mfg Operations Center and mentions the blog

 

 

Improving Shopfloor Data Collection with Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center

Posted: 18 May 2009 05:00 PM PDT

Successful factories around the world leverage information to drive their production and supply chains. New tools are available today to further catapult the data collection, analysis, contextualization and collaboration to the various stakeholders involved in the manufacturing process. Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center (MOC) addresses the factory’s need for accurate and timely information about product and process quality, insight into shop floor operations, and performance of production assets. It solves the complex problem of connecting fragmented disconnected shop floor data to the business context of your ERP and provides the solid foundation for running Continuous Improvement (CI) programs such as Lean and Six Sigma.

  

 

This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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Oracle Manufacturing Summit is here

Posted by Amit K. Singh on April 16, 2009

Oracle’s 2nd Annual Manufacturing Summit at Pella

Annual Oracle Manufacturing Summit

Be part of Oracle’s performance Driven Manufacturing and plan to, attend the 2nd Annual Oracle Manufacturing Summit at Pella. If you have experience applying application solution to manufacturing operations you should not miss this event!

27 – 28, April, 2009

Pella Corporation
102 Main Street
Pella, IA 50219

Learn from leading companies, who have experience applying application solutions to their manufacturing operations, as they share effective practices, process improvement initiatives and lessons learned. Oracle Strategists will provide insight into the direction and tools they are delivering to support customer’s reliability initiatives.

Highlights

Manufacturing in the Economic Downturn – How Oracle can Help you Achieve Manufacturing excellence in a tough economic climate.
Nagaraj Srinivasan Oracle, Vice President Supply Chain Products

Customer Success Stories

Transforming your business with Lean Manufacturing – How IT leaders can drive business value to the bottom line.
Gregory Fell, Terex Corporation, CIO

Emerson’s Oracle-in-a-Box- Accelerating the Time to ValueJim Southwick, Emerson, Director IT Services and Project Governance
Tim Hertzig, Deloitte Consulting, Oracle Senior Manager

G-James – Getting the Most from your Manufacturing Information
Bruce Moy, G James, VP Operations and Amit Singh, Oracle

Customer Panel – Best Practices for Information Driven Manufacturing
Siva Jayaraman, Oracle

Manufacturing SIG Update – Sandie Foster, Abeam, Communications Director

Breakout Sessions

  • Process Manufacturing Product Direction/Q&A
  • Discrete Manufacturing Product Direction/Q&A
  • Driving Product Profitability with Oracle Product Lifecycle (PLM)
  • Advanced Planning Command Center: Enabling Information-Driven Value Chain Planning
  • Oracle BI: An Analytic Application to Support Actionable Intelligence
  • Achieving Supply Chain Excellence through SOA
  • And much more!

Click here for complete agenda and times

Click on the register now button on the right side or call 1.800.820.5592 ext. 6103 to register today for the 2nd Annual Oracle Manufacturing Summit.

Travel to Pella Iowa, from Des Moines, IA airport (approx. 1 hour driving time to Pella, IA)

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It’s Manufacturing Week in Pella Iowa!

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Oracle Customer Showcase Pella Corporation

Deloitte
Date 27-April-2009 To 28-April-2009
Starts At 11:00 am
Venue Pella Corporation
Street Address 102 Main Street
City Pella
State IA
Zip 50219
Country United States

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Upcoming Events for Oracle Mfg Operations Center

Posted by Amit K. Singh on March 10, 2009

Spring Events Calendar

Free Event - Oracle’s Applications Unlimited Experts Live! Virtual Show - Wednesday March 11, 2009.
This action packed day kicks off in high gear with a compelling keynote from Ed Abbo, Oracle’s Senior Vice President of Applications Development. The remainder of the day is packed with live sessions as well as live chats with Oracle applications experts.

Free Event -Oracle’s Second Annual Manufacturing Summit at Pella – April 27-28
It’s Manufacturing Week in Pella Iowa!

Be part of Oracle’s performance Driven Manufacturing and plan to, attend the 2nd Annual Oracle Manufacturing Summit at Pella. If you have experience applying application solution to manufacturing operations you should not miss this event!

Learn from leading companies, who have experience applying application solutions to their manufacturing operations, as they share effective practices, process improvement initiatives and lessons learned. Oracle Strategists will provide insight into the direction and tools they are delivering to support customer’s reliability initiatives.

Then stay the week for Oracle Customer Showcase Pella Corporation – Lean Manufacturing - April 27 – 30
During the event, Pella will showcase how applying Oracle’s solutions is contributing to success for today, tomorrow and beyond. Functional groups will provide insight into their experiences with flow manufacturing, sales, service and support, warehouse management, financials, intelligence, expenses, and technology hardware, infrastructure upgrades and support and much, much more.

Registration Fee Event - OAUG Collaborate 09 Technology & Applications Forum (http://oaug.collaborate09.com/ - May 3-7,2009 Orlando Florida -
Access to 1,000+ User-Led Sessions
Packed with Best Practices and Case Studies
19 Educational Tracks
8 Deep Dive Workshops
Peer-to-Peer Interaction
Dozens of Networking Events,
Geographic and Special Interest Group Meetings
150+ Cutting Edge Exhibitors
Unparalleled Training Value

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Big 3 and UAW must discover the flexible knowledge worker NOW.

Posted by charlieg021163 on November 30, 2008

For the Big 3 and UAW to compete globally, they must change their monolithic manufacturing methods to adaptive manufacturing like Nissan who was the only auto manufacturer to make their 08 sales projection.   Why?  Nissan’s newest plants are able to adapt to market change by making 2-5 models across lines and adjust based on demand, i.e. SUV to crossovers and small cars.  They moved to paperless plants years ago.   Second, the UAW and other unions are the second barrier to global change management at the plant. They do not allow Lean or MES/MOM technologies to be applied in any real way.  85% of American plants still run on paper-based workflows and workers are not permitted to be trained and then applied in 3+ jobs so process can flex to demand and resource commitment.  Big 3 and UAW MUST create the “knowledge worker” whose pay is based on margin contribution.  I work on 7 different international standards for manufacturing operations management and am an internationally recognized expert in the field.  The Big 3 business model must change from one based on departmental finance metrics such labor per hour to a supply chain process based business model based on margin per unit or car.  If the company makes money so does the worker.   Interested? I can direct you to a number of organizations driving this change against the old paper-based guard.  The plant needs to be a profit center, not a cost center.  I once worked in the largest Ford plant in Canada where we installed $1MM workflow optimization system and the UAW went on strike based on “safety concern” of tracking worker performance.  A similar situation occurred at a GE Aviation plant where overtime was removed by optimizing workflow so the Union striked due to tracking worker performance so then GE simply build a competitive plant in Czech Republic.  Lots more examples.  The Bailout will not work til Big 3 and UAW transform the 21st century manufacturing plant and worker.  Worker hourly rate is no longer the issue.”

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Leadership Required: Business for Social Responsibility Conference in New York

Posted by rkroes on November 18, 2008

A very timely conference on the subject of the leadership required to manage the sustainability of our world. On the eve of the event the citizens of the United States elected a new president after 8 years of George W. Bush (it was quite a scene in Times Square…).

Valuable perspectives were provided on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) including by CEO’s of GE, IKEA, Levi’s, and SK Telecom. General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt laid out what he considers to be the four pillars of a successful CSR program:

- Remember the first part of CSR is “corporate”—you have to be competitive.
- Run your company on trust, which means compliance, governance, and transparency.
- Have a long-term commitment to your people.
- Orient your company to solve social problems, including energy and the environment.

Immelt also drove home the point that CSR must be strategic (YouTube).

Here are some session highlights relevant to the role of IT in supporting companies to be more sustainable:

- Is IT So Green?
- A Global Approach to Internal CSR Communications
- Reporting as a Conversation Starter
- CSR’s ROI: Does It Matter?
- How to be Lean and Green
- Innovating CSR Online

Summaries of all the sessions are available at:
http://www.bsr.org/bsrconferences/2008/session-summaries.cfm

Cheers,
Rich

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How everyday things are made..?

Posted by Amit K. Singh on October 30, 2008

Came across another interesting link. This is a resource provided by Stanford University and can be very helpful in teaching kids or anybody about manufacturing. They have online videos on the making of most everyday things from candy to cars and airplanes.

Here’s the link

http://manufacturing.stanford.edu/

Enjoy!

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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN – OAGi Meeting Dec 3-4 in San Francisco

Posted by Amit K. Singh on October 30, 2008

From Guest writer Charlie Gifford:

Charlie is busy running around Europe and getting IICI off the ground. He sends this post by email:

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

Please make your travel plans as soon as possible - registration is now open for our fall face to face OAGi meeting on Wednesday – Thursday, December 3-4, 2008 near Oracle’s offices south of San Francisco.

You can fly into the San Francisco, San Jose, or Oakland airports, depending on what is most convenient to you.

Registration and meeting details are available on our web site at: http://www.oagi.org/global/FallMeeting/OAGi%20Fall%20Meeting%20Page.htm

SPECIAL OAGIS BUSINESS TRAINING SESSION

In addition to our action packed agenda highlighted by customer case studies, our convergence activities, and discussions of future directions, we will be having a special OAGIS Business Training session on the morning of the second day.

We will be finishing by 3 PM at the latest on Thursday, for those who wish to fly back to the east coast that evening.

Please write to me if you have any questions.

Thanks, I look forward to seeing you there,

David

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MEETING LOCATION INFORMATION

Location Address:

Oracle Conference Center
350 Oracle Parkway
Redwood City, CA 94065
Phone: 650-633-8300
Fax: 650-633-8399

Link to Map

Here is also a link to download directions


Directions to Oracle Conference Center

Southbound – Take Highway 101 South (toward San Jose) to the Ralston Ave./Marine World Parkway exit. Turn left at the signal at the top of the exit which will take you over the freeway. Make a left at the second light onto Oracle Parkway. 350 Oracle Parkway will be on the right.

Northbound – Take Highway 101 North (toward San Francisco) to the Ralston Ave./Marine World Parkway exit. Turn right at the signal at the top of the exit . Make a left at the first light onto Oracle Parkway. 350 Oracle Parkway will be on the right.

Parking – The Conference Center has a designated parking lot located directly across from the building. If the lot is filled there is also additional parking in any of the parking garages located near by. No parking permits are needed.

HOTEL INFORMATION

Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay Airport
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City, CA 94065

Special Conference Rate is $179.00 per night

Make sure you ask for the Open Applications Group Rate


Tel: (650)598-9000 No Credit Card Access Charges
Fax: (650)598-0459 6 p.m. Cancellation Policy
Parking: Free

The Sofitel will also provide shuttle transportation to and from the Oracle facility at no charge. The shuttle will run every 15 minutes.

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Interesting blogpost on MES-ERP and Manufacturing Operations

Posted by Amit K. Singh on October 29, 2008

why do we need integrated manufacturing operations, or manufacturing execution systems (MES) linked to transactional enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, likely via some plant-level integration hub and visualization & intelligence layer?

Predrag Jakovljevic, CPIM, CIRM, CSCP is a Principal Analyst with Technology Evaluation Centers.

Predrag addresses above question and many more in his 3 part blog on this subject. Predrag offers interesting insight into the problem and promises to offers some remedial measures in subsequent parts.
Happy reading!

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WBF Conference

Posted by Amit K. Singh on October 29, 2008

WBF

*** Last day to pre-register 31 October***

Q: What do these seven topics have in common?

    • ISA88 and Flexible Control
    • ISA95 and MES
    • Manufacturing Methods
    • Production Control
    • ISA88, ISA95, and Lean Manufacturing
    • Business to Manufacturing (B2M) Integration
    • Manufacturing Information

A: They are all sessions at the 2008 WBF European Conference and will feature presentations that will showcase best-practices, lessons learned, and cutting-edge technologies that are critical to the reliability and automation of batch and continuous manufacturing processes.

A not-to-miss event for anyone in this industry! The conference takes place on 10-12 November 2008, in Barcelona, Spain.

Pre-register today to reserve a seat!

www.wbf.org/eu08

Event Information

The 2008 WBF European Conference, with its theme of Bridging the Divide Between IT and Manufacturing, will show you how to successfully apply and use current, new, and cutting-edge manufacturing management, integration, and control methods and technologies.

Learn from innovative industry leaders how to efficiently and effectively maximize your valuable resources by incorporating IT and manufacturing in the work process.

Topics will include ISA standards ISA88 and ISA95, and how they apply to and/or affect various factors, plus topics such as:

  • Functional specification and design
  • Resource and Process Modelling
  • Batch, Continuous, and Discrete Applications
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Production Related KPIs
  • Relationship between Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Production Automation
  • and more

Learn more or register

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Cool Stuff Being made

Posted by Amit K. Singh on October 28, 2008

For those of you who are passionate about manufacturing, here’s an interesting blog, simply called Shop Floor. The blog is available at http://www.shopfloor.org/. You can also access the blog from the website of National Association of Manufacturers, the link available on the right side bar.

It’s an interesting blog about variety of topics. One of the coolest features of the blog is called “Cool Stuff Being Made”. It’s a series of videos about different kind of stuff being made. Most of the videos are well done, explaining the whole process of manufacturing including sourcing of the raw materials and different steps in supply chain and manufacturing of the product.

Here’s a link to one of the videos about the manufacturing of Maple Syrup. Delicious!

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