Manufacturing
Manufacturing
companies world-wide rely on legacy
systems. While these systems are highly reliable,
they can hold important data hostage because it is difficult
to connect and integrate these systems with one another,
and with other systems that utilize new technologies
and standards.
With
an obvious need for improving efficiency in order to
reduce operating costs and increase competitiveness,
manufacturing organizations are faced with the tough
choice of either replacing these systems that run 24/7,
or extending and enhancing them to provide more efficient
workflow for end users.
MitemView
allows manufacturing organizations the ability to enhance,
extend and integrate their legacy systems without the
costly and disruptive process of replacing them.
The
following case studies and articles from the heart of
the manufacturing world reveal the many benefits of
using MITEM to non-invasively integrate legacy systems.
Selected
Projects:
Vought
Aircraft
Vought
Aircraft Industries, Inc. is the world's largest independent
supplier of aero structures. Headquartered in Dallas,
the company provides wings, fuselage subassemblies,
thrust reversers and other components for prime manufacturers
of aircraft. Vought has more than 5,000 employees and
annual sales that exceed $1 billion. The Company has
operations in Texas, California, Florida, and Georgia.
Vought
selected MitemView to create greater efficiencies in
process planning by reducing the number of screens a
planner had to navigate, providing drop-down tables
that define various codes, implementing rules-based
selection of data codes, and allowing access to other
systems without exiting the planning system.
Read
case study
PPG
Industries
PPG Industries
is a $7 billion supplier and manufacturer of specialty
and flat glass products, fiber glass, coatings and industrial
resins, and specialty chemicals for the automotive,
home and industrial markets.
MITEM developed
a user-friendly, Windows-based interface for PPG's legacy
systems that allows all requisitions and invoices from
remote plant sites to be processed electronically.
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case study
Bayer
USA
Bayer Corporation, headquartered
in Pittsburgh, is the U.S. holding company of the worldwide
Bayer Group, an international health care and chemicals
group based in Germany. Bayer employs 24,600 in North
America with net North American sales of 8.9 billion
euros in 2002. Their four operating business areas -
HealthCare, Crop Science, Polymers and Chemicals -
produce a broad range of products that help diagnose
and treat diseases, purify water, preserve local landmarks,
protect crops, advance automobile safety and durability
and improve people's lives.
Bayer's
Balcony project, deployed within the finance
department to improve the credit approval process, had
the twin goals of achieving navigation transparency
- "Go Anywhere. from Anywhere" and seamless information
access - "Get Anything. from Anyplace."
MitemView
provides a key
component for Balcony by providing access to
the mainframe system via a custom graphical user interface
(GUI). This customized GUI offers a Windows environment
for navigating and interacting with the mainframe environment
without the typical legacy limitations - the navigation
is transparent and information can be presented very
logically and in much greater quantities.
Bayer
has completed millions of completely error-free transactions
over
the years with
the MitemView-based Balcony solution.
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