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Chapter 6

e-Factory Technology

Solution Sets

Purpose of This Chapter

As technology and process trends accelerate the introduction of new technol-

ogies into the e-factory, decision-making about which software and hardware

suppliers to use becomes more complex. Over the last half of the last decade

there was a raging debate associated with information technology strategies

as to whether a company should use a single software provider for all its

business application and control needs, or whether there should be a “best-

of-breed” approach. The rapidly growing enterprise resource planning (ERP)

companies such as SAP and Oracle were of course advocating ...