Lighthammer provides Web-based software for monitoring and managing operations at manufacturing facilities. The company's 60 employees are expected to remain at its Exton, Pa., headquarters, and ...

SAP plans to launch a new version of its supply-chain management suite in June. The most significant new features in the suite are found in the service-parts management component. This is largely ...

Manufacturing enterprises operate within a complex ecosystem where every machine, worker, and raw material must synchronize in orchestrated harmony. Yet, when supply chains experience disruptions—a ...

In a move that puts it into more direct competition with several of the major automation suppliers, SAP AG, the German-based enterprise software giant, announced plans on June 17 to acquire Visiprise ...

SAP will launch a new version of its supply chain management suite in June, the company announced at CeBIT in Hanover on Thursday. The most significant new features are in the service-parts management ...

SAP AG today announced its intent to acquire Visiprise, Inc., a privately-held provider of manufacturing execution software solutions delivering integrated manufacturing operations to companies of all ...

Industry has seen a variety of approaches to the digitization of production operations as a means of connecting the plant floor to the enterprise. From the rise of Industrial Internet of Things ...

Software maker SAP unveiled plans Tuesday for a new line of applications that will use Internet standards to make its popular business software interact more easily with a multitude of computer ...

While it may be tempting to dismiss 3D printing as just another consumer fad, the fact is that 3D printers are already transforming how products are developed and made. It’s now fairly common for a ...