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InternetNews February 24, 2009 David Needle |
Google Looking for Answers After Gmail Goes Dark It might be back now, but questions still remain after Google's e-mail service went out of commission earlier today. |
Food Processing March 2012 |
MRO Q&A: A Reasonable Figure for Maintenance Downtime Downtime numbers are as unique as the process you are trying to run. The most important facet of downtime is getting everyone affected in agreement of the reasonable expectation. |
InternetNews April 8, 2004 Dan Muse |
NetSuite's 99.5 Percent Solution The provider of a Web-based, all-in-one e-commerce, accounting, CRM and ERP application announces a money-back uptime guarantee ... and hints at future plans for e-tailers. |
Information Today January 5, 2016 |
Google Apps for Work Starts New Program for Microsoft Users Google is making an aggressive move to grow its Google Apps for Work business by enticing big companies to switch from Microsoft Office to Google Apps for Work. |
Food Processing August 2010 |
MRO Q&A: What are the do's and don'ts for food industry maintenance? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. |
CRM July 1, 2006 Colin Beasty |
The ABCs of SLAs Service-level agreements (SLAs) are like insurance policies: Hidden under all the paperwork are loopholes and regulations that nobody has the time to go through. But understanding SLAs is critical for customers thinking of doing business with an on-demand provider. |
CIO August 8, 2007 Lauren Gibbons Paul |
ABC: An Introduction to Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) SLAs are a critical component of any vendor contract. Beyond listing expectations of service type and quality, an SLA provides remedies when requirements aren't met. |
Food Processing September 2010 |
MRO Q&A: Where and how does a preventive maintenance program fit in with our normal routine maintenance program? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. |
Food Engineering December 1, 2008 Richard F. Stier |
Food Safety: HACCP's most underemphasized prerequisite Electronic maintenance management programs have many benefits. |
Food Engineering April 1, 2005 Olin Thompson |
Something broken this way comes An estimated 35 percent of indirect cost in a food plant is due to maintenance. Can you foresee upcoming equipment failures? Predictive and preventive maintenance software can help keep your plant running. |
Food Engineering February 1, 2005 |
Is preventive maintenance worth it? For many businesses, a planned maintenance strategy is critical. Yet nearly 68 percent of the respondents to a survey of the food and beverage industry say they allocate less than half of their maintenance budgets for preventive activities that reduce equipment failure and plant shutdown. |
IndustryWeek February 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz |
Prevent Defense Take plant environments into account before performing preventive maintenance. |
InternetNews April 29, 2009 David Needle |
Google to McKinsey: 'Get Off of My Cloud' There's more to cloud computing than recent McKinsey & Company report says, according to Google. |
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010 |
Culture Counts 'When you embark on lean, you're not just trying to engage the hands of your employees. You want their hands, their hearts and their minds,' Mike Fitzgerald, director of lean and reliability services for Advanced Technology Services Inc. asserts. |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2007 Jill Jusko |
Operations: Maintenance Miscues The consequences of missed or ignored equipment maintenance can range from lost production to costly and perhaps even fatal safety mishaps. Here's what you can do to keep costly breakdowns at bay. |
The Motley Fool November 22, 2010 Anders Bylund |
Google Hangs a Long Tail on Apps There's something for everybody in this service expansion. At least, that's what Google hopes. |
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010 |
Lean for Machines Applying continuous-improvement strategies to maintenance can help your plant run like a well-oiled machine. |
Food Processing September 2013 |
MRO Q&A: When Is Condition-Based Maintenance Worth It? What can you tell me about condition-based maintenance? Is it more economical than preventative maintenance? |
Food Engineering March 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
The Business Case for Better Maintenance It seems a stretch, but a plant's maintenance department can be a profit center. |
Food Engineering April 2, 2007 Wayne Labs |
Savvy Maintenance Strategies For food processors, a savvy plant maintenance strategy begins with hard questions based in reality. What does it cost when a part fails in your production line? How critical is it to your business? |
IndustryWeek March 16, 2011 |
The Case For Cloud Security Cloud computing is all the rage -- but companies should take appropriate security measures to make sure their sensitive data are safe. |
Food Processing September 2010 |
MRO Q&A: Why hasn't predictive maintenance developed faster in food & beverage plant operations? A look at the factors that must be present for a plant to have sufficient benefit from predictive maintenance to justify the investment in measurement equipment. |
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010 |
Basics of Lean Maintenance When properly applied to maintenance processes, lean strategies can remove waste and improve equipment performance. |
Information Today April 2, 2007 |
SLA's Click University Offers Free ebrary Titles to Members SLA members can now have free unrestricted access to nearly 1,000 electronic business titles through ebrary. |
Food Processing August 2010 |
MRO Q&A: How and where can I benchmark downtime and uptime in the bagged salad industry? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. |
Bank Systems & Technology August 10, 2010 Matt Gunn |
How Safe Is the Cloud? Who can access data in the cloud and how data and tasks are audited are critical issues for banks exploring cloud computing, security experts say. |
CIO November 1, 2003 Elana Varon |
Getting the Best from Your Vendors (What Really Works) It may be tempting to squeeze vendors for every dollar. But research shows that lowball tactics eventually boomerang into poor service and support. |
Food Processing June 2012 |
MRO Q&A: TPM as a best practice? Q: I have heard the term Total Productive Maintenance as being the "best practice" for maintaining equipment. Can you help me understand what it is and how it differs from regular maintenance? |
Information Today November 8, 2004 Marydee Ojala |
SLA Drops Two Organizational Memberships The SLA's (Special Libraries Association) decision to stop paying dues to NISO (National Information Standards Organization) and to CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) has members outraged. |
The Motley Fool October 28, 2008 Anders Bylund |
Rounding Up the Cloud A look at the latest news about companies involved in cloud computing. |
InternetNews October 23, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Windows, SQL Server on the Amazon Cloud Amazon.com's Amazon Web Services entity has put its Elastic Compute Cloud, widely known as EC2, into full production, and is moving to make it more attractive to the enterprise. |
Information Today June 30, 2015 Marydee Ojala |
The Future of SLA: A Strategic Framework and Recommendations for Moving Forward This is a crucial time for the Special Libraries Association. Founded in 1909 by John Cotton Dana, SLA is in the midst of an identity crisis. |
Food Processing November 2012 |
MRO Q&A: Decreasing Downstream Delays Too many times we have to throw away product because of the effect of downstream delays. Do you have any ideas on how to decrease these? |
PHONE+ December 7, 2009 Michael Murphy |
Get Your Head in the Cloud Cloud computing can can provide additional value to new and existing clients. |
Information Today December 14, 2009 |
SLA Is Still SLA; Membership Votes No on Name Change Special Libraries Association members failed to approve a proposal to change the organization's name to the Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals. |
InternetNews March 15, 2004 Jim Wagner |
A New Approach to Trouble Tickets Advanced beta tests from Mercury's latest application look to shave time off company downtime. |
Information Today August 27, 2009 |
SLA Forms New Professional Interest Group for Taxonomy Professionals The Taxonomy Division of the Special Libraries Association will provide information professionals interested in these topics a focused professional home base within SLA. |
Wall Street & Technology June 22, 2004 Jim Middlemiss |
CIO Challenge: Maintenance Costs On average, IT maintenance eats up more than $6 out of every $10 in the IT budget. |
IndustryWeek July 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz |
Maintenance Seers Predictive maintenance tools and strategies diagnose problems before they begin. |
IndustryWeek August 1, 2007 John Teresko |
PLM's MRO Opportunity PLM can manage inventory, procurement to maintenance. |
Information Today June 16, 2008 Paula J. Hane |
SLA Meets in the Emerald City Special Libraries Association Conference theme, Breaking Rules, Building Bridges. describes what info pros must do to be successful in the rapidly changing world of information -- embrace change and build networks. |
Information Today April 17, 2014 |
Park Place Technologies Expands Data Center Services Park Place Technologies offers data center hardware maintenance to companies such as IBM, HP, and Dell. |
IndustryWeek April 15, 2009 John Teresko |
Outsourcing Machine Tool Maintenance Even small and medium-sized companies are finding strategic benefits from third-party maintenance approaches. |
IndustryWeek September 1, 2005 Doug Bartholomew |
Operations: New Ideas For Smooth Systems A move to outsourcing and a shift toward enterprise resource planning software for maintenance applications are among the key trends taking place in the market for maintenance, repair and operations software. |
InternetNews February 14, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Lucid8 Fills Database Holes The latest release adds a graphical interface, new configuration features and centralized management. And it allows administrator to schedule maintenance jobs server-by-server, so they occur automatically. |
Information Today Marydee Ojala |
Live From Nashville: Blogging SLA The Live from Nashville Special Libraries Association blog will cover as many aspects of the conference as the bloggers can handle. That would include association business meetings, conference sessions, the exhibit floor, and social events. |
Information Today May 31, 2005 Maydee Ojala |
If SLA is in Toronto, Can the Bloggers Be Far Behind? The Live from Toronto blog will cover as many aspects of the SLA (Special Libraries Association) conference as the bloggers can handle, including association business meetings, conference sessions, the exhibit floor, and social events. |
Bank Technology News September 2009 Mike Scheuerman |
Outsource the Small Stuff Small financial institutions typically struggle with their IT infrastructure. Often, the answer is outsourcing. |
InternetNews August 3, 2009 David Needle |
Google Takes Its Apps Message to the Streets Billboard campaign designed to highlight why companies are 'going Google.' |
IndustryWeek August 17, 2011 |
Five Common Lean Maintenance Missteps How to avoid the five most common mistakes made by manufacturers on their journey to lean maintenance. |