 | | | Events and Resources | | | | | Manufacturing Leadership Summit
April 29-May 2, 2012
Palm Beach, Florida
Is there a formula for success in the years ahead? Do manufacturers just keep doing what they have always done, or will the future demand a new set of rules for how we lead, organize, operate, and manage our companies? Join Cisco at the eighth annual Manufacturing Leadership Summit to discuss the impact of new business models to exploit high-growth markets, new ways of organizing production globally, build-to-demand supply chains, advanced workforce skills, and the megatrends of social enterprise, mobility, and cloud computing. Learn More and Register. SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference
May 14-16, 2012
Orlando, Florida
The SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference combines the world's premier business technology and largest SAP user conferences. Plan your time now to ensure you do not miss any of the exciting discussion groups, demonstrations, microforum discussions, educational sessions, and presentations that match your business challenges. Learn More and Register. Video Architecture for Manufacturing
How can I better innovate, manage my supply chain, reduce downtime, resolve outages faster, introduce new products more quickly, improve workforce productivity, achieve real-time visibility, and capture knowledge for my transitioning workforce? Check out the new Cisco Video Architecture for Manufacturing overview, which highlights Cisco solutions to address each of these needs. Download the Overview. | | | Archives | | | Welcome to our latest issue of the Cisco® Connected Manufacturing newsletter. In this issue you will find recent articles about industrial security trends and best practices, the mobile worker, nine tips for a smarter wireless industrial workforce, and IT standards and security. You'll also see information about the upcoming Manufacturing Leadership Summit in late April and early May, the SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference event in May, and details about our video architecture for manufacturing. To subscribe to our quarterly newsletter, click here. To forward it to a friend or colleague, click here. | | |  |  | | More Power to Collaborate with Lean Communication The future of business communication is a digital, video-enhanced world. The challenge for the global manufacturer is to streamline collaboration not only within each enterprise, but with each factory, and throughout the value chain from supplier to customer. Cisco's Jill Spencer and Dmitry Dukhan discuss the imperative for lean communication in an article recently featured in Manufacturing Executive Leadership Journal. Read More. |  | | IT Standards and Security Today IT managers are seeking to simplify the entire data center infrastructure. Dr. Michael Missbach is an IT expert, adviser, and author of several AP Press books as well as a manager of the International Cisco SAP Competence Center in Walldorf, Germany. In this article from Efficient Extended Enterprise, he explains how Cisco's "less is more" philosophy — using a single cable for Ethernet LAN and Fibre Channel storage communication - is dramatically altering the infrastructure landscape. Read More. | |  | | Industrial Security Trends and Best Practices Today we see a proliferation of industrial automation and control systems, smart grids, and a multitude of personal devices. With more and more machines, controls, sensors, drives, actuators, and infrastructure being connected through networking technologies, security has become a top priority. What are the main considerations for strengthening security across your production environment and best practices to implement? Paul Didier of Cisco provides his insight in a recent article featured on Automation.com. Read the Article. | |  | | The Mobile Worker Technologies have enabled industrial workers to become mobile, and there is no going back. Today's control engineering staff, instrumentation technicians, plant managers, maintenance personnel, troubleshooters, design engineers, and factory workers are becoming mobile workers. The benefits and considerations for expanding the use of mobility on plant floors and manufacturing operations are described in this Control Engineering article by Cisco's Peter Granger. Read the Article. | |  | | 9 Tips for a Smarter Wireless Industrial Workforce Have you read Control Engineering's nine tips for enabling an industrial wireless mobile workforce? Learn what is critical to consider, including standards, self-healing technologies, video, worker involvement, and the right blend of hardware and software. Check out the full list of tips in this article. Read the Tips. | | | | |
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