Manufacturing Automation focuses on market opportunities for hardware & software solutions in such key areas as CAD/CAM/CAE, PDM, ERP, supply chain management, e-commerce, rapid prototyping & manufacturing, robotics, systems integration

Manufacturing Automation is a unique monthly newsletter devoted to ferreting-out and explaining key global issues, markets, and trends impacting discrete and process manufacturers, written by Peter Adrian, an industry analyst with over 12 years of experience in researching the automation field.
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Why You Need Manufacturing Automation

The dynamic markets for manufacturing/industrial automation products and services present keen opportunities as well as challenges. The global market for plant management systems and services alone approaches $1 billion. The torrid pace of technology advancements threatens the prospects for current hardware, software, and networking solutions.

To maintain and enhance their company's success in the increasingly global manufacturing arena, the automation business executive must have rapid access to the most current information and analyses that illuminate the current status and future prospects for established and emerging markets, applications, products, and technologies. Obtaining and organizing this information is very time consuming.

Manufacturing Automation streamlines the exhausting information-gathering and strategic decision-making processes by providing a single, comprehensive source of information for industrial automation business, marketing, and technology executives. You cannot afford to miss out on learning about the market and technology developments that will profoundly impact your company's operations and opportunities. In addition, the interviews with key business executives, marketing experts, and R&D technologists in Manufacturing Automation will enable you to have an insider's view of your competitors' significant marketing and product development strategies and activities.

Our Extensive Intelligence Network Provides In-Depth Information about Key Automation Markets and Technologies

Manufacturing Automation divulges and analyzes market research data that typically would be very expensive to obtain from other sources. The market data that has appeared in recent issues of Manufacturing Automation addresses a plethora of significant products, applications, and technologies, including:

• Global mechanical CAD/CAM, CAE revenues for software developers, which totaled $4.4 billion in1998 (Daratech, Inc.)
• The market for independent supply chain or advanced planning software solutions, which totaled about $750 million in 1997 (Plant-Wide Research Group)
• Aggregate revenue for the supply chain management (SCM) market, which exceeded $2.6 billion in1998 (AMR Research)
• World NC software and services market at the vendor level, forecast to reach $887 million in 1999 (CIMdata)
• Worldwide shipments of Windows NT-based workstations, which totaled 750,972 units in 1998 (Dataquest)

Manufacturing Automation has forged productive relationships with key marketing, administrative, and technology executives at numerous significant organizations who provide us with insider information unavailable elsewhere. Among the significant companies and automation technologies highlighted in recent issues of Manufacturing Automation are:

• Visionary Design Systems (Santa Clara, CA), a provider of e-Engineering solutions for Web-based design-chain integration and mechanical engineering product development
• Exa Corp. (Lexington, MA), an innovator in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software
• Hologix (Phoenix, AZ), which offers an off-the-shelf e-commerce order management solution for attribute-product industries
• Tecnomatix's (Herzliya, Israel), a key provider of CAPE (computer-aided production engineering) solutions

Manufacturing Automation keeps you aware of vital technological, marketing, and business developments in automation with respect to key areas, such as systems integration, advanced software and network solutions, CAD/CAM/CAE, machine and plant-floor automation, material handling, contract manufacturing, and logistics. Manufacturing Automation has reviewed numerous cutting-edge business development and management practices, products, and application trends, including:

• The implementation of effective order-to-delivery processes (R. Michael Donovan & Co., Inc.)
• The Performance Measurement Group's (Waltham, MA) survey that benchmarks supply chain management performance
• CIMLINC's (Itasca, IL) systems for streamlining shop floor automation in the aerospace and defense industry
• Berkeley Process Control's (Richmond, CA) integrated motion and machine control solutions
• A Holistic Approach for Enhancing Manufacturing Efficiencies (Arthur D. Little)
• The Vital Stages and Best Practices Involved in Maximizing ERP (Deloitte Consulting)

Manufacturing Automation is tailored to your specific managerial marketing, technical, and business development needs. Each issue provides essential information that would cost thousands of dollars to purchase in the form of market research reports, and offers insights and analysis that would cost substantially more to obtain in the form of custom consulting services. To further boost the value of your subscription to Manufacturing Automation, Vital Information Publications will offer you a free consultation and a $150 voucher toward the purchase of other VIP newsletters or consulting services. We welcome you to our rapidly expanding network of subscribers.