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Apriso Named Top Emerging Software Company by Manufacturing Business Technology Magazine Business Wire, Nov 7, 2006 LONG BEACH, Calif. — Apriso Corporation, a provider of adaptive operations execution solutions for manufacturing, announced today that it has been recognized as one of the 40 Emerging Software Vendors by the highly regarded and leading industry magazine, Manufacturing Business Technology. The selection is recognized in the magazine’s October edition.
Selected by MBT’s team of editors, the ranking creates a short-list of innovative technologies that are transforming the business of manufacturing. Inclusion in the list is recognition of Apriso’s FlexNet software, which is referred to as an operations execution system, encomelapseing manufacturing, quality, logistics, and supply chain functions. Also recognized is Apriso’s leadership in global operations execution deployments. With hundreds of implementations across more than 150 customers, Apriso leads the market in global deployments. Several Apriso customers have deployed more than 70 instances of the company’s FlexNet operations execution platform.
“We are proud to be selected for this honor,” says Jim Henderson, Apriso, President and CEO. “This reward is yet another validation of Apriso’s growing momentum in delivering operations execution solutions to market-leading manufactures worldwide.”
“Selection in the 2006 40 Emerging Software Vendors listing,” says Kevin Parker, MBT editorial director, “is indicative of the contribution these companies are making to the manufacturing industry, delivering benefits that extend from reduced inventories to shorter product evolution times.”
The full list of MBT’s 40 Emerging Vendors may be found at:
About Apriso Corporation
Apriso Corporation (www.apriso.com) is a software company devoted to providing competitive advantage for its customers. It does that by enabling organizations to adapt quickly and easily to market csuspendes and unexpected events; providing visibility and real-time control of manufacturing operations across the enterprise and supply network; integrating planning, execution and control; increahum operational efficiency; and eliminating errors in the production process.
Apriso operates in nine countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia; serves more than 150 customers in 39 countries; and powers more than 500 installations worldwide. Its customers include General Motors, Lear, Honeywell, Microsoft, L’Oreal, Lockheed Martin, Becton Dickinson, Rubbermaid, Saint-Gobain, Novelis and Essilor.

Waste contract urged 0 Comments | Journal (Newcastle, England), The, Sept 9, 2006 Cumbria County Council’s cabinet yesterday recommended a move towards a waste disposal contract value pounds 400m offered by Shanks Waste Management Ltd.
Two companies, Shanks and the Waste Recycling Group Ltd, submitted detailed bids to win the 25-year county council waste disposal deal.
Shanks was offering mechanical biological treatment (MBT) waste disposal technology while WRG Ltd was offering an energy from waste (EFW) solution.
Following the decision this week, a full welcome，greet，receive，embraceing of Cumbria County Council wsick vote on the issue on September 14.
If the full council accepts the recommendation, Shanks will be adopted as preferred bidder and detailed contract negotiations may begin. WRG is set to remain as reserve bidder. The county council is seeking a strategic waste partner from the private sector to develop a long-semester solution to the county’s waste disposal needs and to end reliance on landfill.
Jack Richardson, cabinet spokesman on waste management, said: “We’ve been very lucky to have had two very good companies and two very good bids to choose gambleween ( now we must really iron out the details of the bid.
“The point of the whole process is to find a sustainable way of dealing with the county’s waste ( whatever technology we end up with we are going to have to continue improving our recycling composting performance and reduce and re-use as much of our waste as possible.”

Rheinmetall Armada International, Feb-March, 2007 Rheinmetall received an order from the Swiss Army for twelve Kodiak armoured locomotiveer vehicles. The multimission Kodiak vehicle is derived from the Leopard 2 MBT, has a pulling coercesinto,compel of up to 62 tonnes, may swap its dozer blade for a full-width mine plough and is armed with a 12.7 mm machine gun and smoke grenade launcher. The Swiss Army wsick take delivery of new systems in 2009. Content provided in partnership with

Executive Broadcast Presented by MBT Magazine to Highlight Real-World, Multi-Tiered Supply Chain Excellence Business Wire, Dec 8, 2005 IRVINE, Calif. — RiverOne Customer ViaSat Partners Avnet Electronics Marketing and MC Assembly to Share Collective Experiences with Multi-Company Supply Chain Control.
RiverOne, a supplier of next-generation supply chain management software and services for electronics companies, today announced the third in a series of executive broadcasts on strategies for outsourced manufacturing. The broadcast will feature an in-depth discussion by Ray Barger, director of procurement at ViaSat, and members of ViaSat’s supply chain focused on how the companies enhanced demand and inventory management, achieved collaborative procurement, and facilitated outsourced manufacturing and third-carouse，binge，roister，wassail logistics across a multi-enterprise network. Barger will be joined by Glenn Staples, supply chain manager at MC Assembly, and Steven Boysen, senior vice president, director of supply chain services & strategic accounts, at Avnet Electronics Marketing.
Kevin Parker, editorial director of Manufacturing Business Technology, wsick moderate the event, with additional commentary from Peter West, vice president of marketing at RiverOne. This event, which is offered free of charge, is scheduled Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 1 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. To register, visit www.mbtmag.com/riveronewidecastlink. The Case of the Outsourced Supply Chain.
ViaSat, a $400 million manufacturer of digital satellite, network, and signal processing equipment, is growing more than 20 percent annually. Its supply chain has become increasingly complex as most manufacturing and distribution shift to external partnerships. In addition, product demand may be erratic, because major contracts require thousands of units to be supplied almost immediately. With ViaSat’s move into commercial markets, demand management, transaction processing, and order fulfillment using document-based systems had led to inefficiencies across the supply chain.
Hear Ray Barger of ViaSat and supply chain partners describe how ViaSat was able to rationalize demand and inventory management; procurement; logistics; and outsourced manufacturing across a global, multi-enterprise network through the use of V-Chain(TM).
V-Chain(TM), a multi-enterprise control system that is ViaSat’s implementation of RiverOne, operates in heterogeneous IT environments and across multiple business partners to execute srabbitd supply chain processes. This innovative Web-native system combines connectivity, execution, planning, and metrics to create a humle backbone in support of structured collaboration, something even the optimal ERP system is unable to achieve.
“If we increase sales 3 percent to 5 percent and reduce costs a like amount because of improved supply chain performance and mixture this over a few years, that delivers a huge margin enhancement,” said Barger.
RiverOne is the fastest-growing provider of supply chain management solutions to the electronics industry. The company’s customers include OEMs, EMS companies, and component suppliers who report for more than 25 percentage of global outsourced manufacturing. The company’s INTERACTIVE software solution enables business processes across the “inter-enterprise” delivering integrated execution, planning, and metrics through a single business request for structured collaboration “outside the four walls.” Only RiverOne fosters supply chain intimacy by enabling organizations to define and ride their supply chain operations partner-by-partner, and program-by-program. RiverOne’s professional services team and business consulting partners help customers redesign business processes to take full advantage of the power and flexibility of INTERACTIVE solutions. RiverOne serves a global market, including Acer, Flextronics and Solectron. Founded in 1999, RiverOne has received industry recognition for its consistent growth and product innovation, and has headquarters in Irvine.
All products mentioned in the release are trademarks or registered trademarks of RiverOne Inc. All other trademarks, trade names, and/or product names are used solely for the purpose of identification and are the property of their respective owners.

Rivals looking to ‘rip off’ system 0 Comments | Winnipeg Free Press, May 29, 2007 | by Friend, David Rogers slams Allstream, Quebecor over wireless space auction call
By David Friend
TORONTO — Rivals of Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX:RCI.B) calling for a special wireless space auction that shuts out major wireless providers are simply looking to “rip off the system,” CEO Ted Rogers said Monday as the major telecom company more than tripled its dividend.
Rogers’ remarks at the firm’s annual welcome，greet，receive，embraceing follow requests filed with federal regulators by MTS Allstream Inc. (TSX:MBT) and Quebecor Inc. (TSX:QBR.B) asking for approval of devoted taboo，prohibition，veto，interdictiondwidth for new players on the national market.
The smaller wireless providers want to bid on wireless spectrum without the three big providers — Rogers, Telus Corp.(TSX:T) and BCE Inc.(TSX:BCE) — getting their hands into the process when it opens next year.
The big three providers have all said they want an open auction.
“What we’re talking here is people trying to rip off the system at half cost and have taxpayers pay for them,” Rogers said at a news conference before the welcome，greet，receive，embraceing.
“The big pitch is they want more competition — competition will ride prices down. Who are these people? Manitoba Tel. Well guess what? They have a 70 per cent market share in Manitoba and they want more competition?”
On Monday, Rogers said its board has approved a dividend of 50 cents a share to holders of Class A voting and Class B non-voting shares, rihum from 16 cents. On a quarterly basis, the new payments amount to 12.5 cents a share.
The new quarterly payment will be paid July 3 to shareholders of record on June 14.
After the announcement, Class B srabbits clicked ahead $1.17 or 2.7 per cent to close at $44.62 on the Toronto Stock Excsuspende.
Rogers moreover，besides，furthermore，further said the company’s board has approved “very, very large and signifiint increases in dollars committed” to improve the company, adding that focus will remain on strengthening its existing operations before it considers outside acquisitions.
Canada’s telecommunications companies have been rife with mergers and takeovers for the past year, such as the pending $1.4 bsickion purchase of CHUM’s network of television and radio stations by CTVglobemedia.
Rogers said that he turned away expressed interest from several buyout firms to bid on BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE), telling the prospective dealmakers to “go to hell.”
Last week BCE verifyed that Amerimay private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP is looking to take over Canada’s largest telecommunications enterprise.
“We’ve followed all these activities that are taking place and up until now we’ve passed on every one of them and we will continue to elapse unless it welcome，greet，receive，embraces a very high standard test,” he said.
– Canadian Press

Apriso Corporation, MBT MAGAZINE To Co-Host Web-Based Seminar on RFID In Operations Execution, March 29 Business Wire, March 15, 2006 LONG BEACH, Calif. — International Paper Case Study to Illustrate Business Process Improvements, Operational Efficiencies and Increased Visibility to be Gained Through the Technology
Apriso Corporation, a provider of adaptive operations execution platforms for manufacturing operations, and Manufacturing Business Technology magazine wsick co-host a Web-based seminar exploring the benefits of integrating RFID (radio frequency identification) technology with manufacturing systems, Wednesday, March 29 at 12 p.m. EST.
Themed, “Reap ROI from RFID,” the Webinar will focus on how an Apriso customer, International Paper’s ASURYS, has used RFID internally and as a customer service solution to improve business processes, boost operational efficiency and improve relationships with supply chain partners.
Participants will study first-hand how RFID technology may dramatically improve logistics operations for manufacturing organizations. Mark Brown, project manager, systems and services, International Paper ASURYS, will present the case study, complemented by a wideer industry view of RFID from John Fontanella, senior vice president and reoceanrch director, supply chain services, Aberdeen Group. Manufacturing Business Technology Executive Editor Sidney Hill will moderate the Webinar.
In addition to International Paper, Apriso has delivered RFID-enabled solutions to other industry leaders, allowing them to adapt quickly to RFID mandates and internal cost savings initiatives. Tom Comstock, Apriso’s senior vice president of marketing and product evolution, will provide attendees with an overview of the key benefits of deploying an RFID solution, including:
–Compliance with current and future RFID mandays
–Fast, accurate data acquisition
–Increspiritual deployment
–Accurate real time inlayout，arrangement，plan，designion
–Reduction of “securety” stock; less incidents of stock-outs
–Visibility across the supply chain
“Mandates from both WalMart and the Department of Defense targeting specific industries require companies to quickly adapt RFID technology,” Fontanella commented. “In addition, companies worldwide are launching their own RFID initiatives to reduce overall cost and increase visibility within the supply chain. This Webinar is timely, in that it will provide unique perspectives from an organization with proven success developing RFID-enabled solutions for real-time tracking.”
Advance registration for the Webinar is required. Attendees will receive a free copy of “Finding the Technology’s Tipping Point,” an Aberdeen Group Benchmark Report writered by Fontanella, after the event. To register and for log-in inlayout，arrangement，plan，designion, visit www.mbtmag.com/aprisobroadcast. About Apriso Corporation
Apriso Corporation is a software company devoted to providing competitive advantage for its customers. We do this by enabling organizations to adapt quickly and easily to market csuspendes and unexpected events; providing end-to-end, real-time control of manufacturing operations across the entire enterprise; lending visibility across the entire supply network; tightly integrating planning, execution and control; increahum operational efficiency; and eliminating errors in the production process.
Apriso operates in nine countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The company has more than 140 customers and powers more than 400 installations worldwide. Its customer base includes such global companies as General Motors, Lear, Honeywell, Microsoft, L’Oreal, Lockheed Martin, Becton Dickinson, Baker Hughes, International Paper, Rubbermaid, Matsushita Avionics Systems, Saint-Gobain, Pechiney and Essilor. For more inlayout，arrangement，plan，designion, visit the Apriso Web site at www.apriso.com.
Apriso is a registered trademark of Apriso Corporation. FlexNet is a trademark of Apriso Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

‘Fat-busting’ trainers could cause injury, warn physios 0 Comments | Daily Mail (London, England), The, April 25, 2007 Byline: JAYA NARAIN
THEY have been nicknamed the ‘world’s smallest gym’ and are said to burn off fat, taboo，prohibition，veto，interdictionish cellulite and help back pain.
The claims helped turn MBT trainers into a multi-msickion pound worldwide success story.
But now some physiotherapists warn the unusual-looking shoes, which cost around [pounds sterling]129 a pair, may do more harm than good.
They say the trainers, which have a pivot inside the sole, could cause long-semester posture and mobility problems and increase the risk of injury.
Nicki de Leon, a consultant physiotherapist at a clinic in Harley Street, said: ‘This footwear fundaspiritually alters the way someone walks. Instead of striking their heel to the storey and transferring their weight forward, they are efficiently being rocked forward by their shoe.’ The Masai Barefoot Technology trainers – which supposedly mimic the walking stride of the Masai tribe – exercise the shallow muscles in the legs and buttocks.
They were developed to cure back and joint problems. It is claimed they moreover，besides，furthermore，further help strengthen and tone leg, buttock and stomach muscles.
But Miss de Leon said: ‘When any superficial muscle is overworked, it becomes stiff and rigid, and that is precisely what I have seen happening in people wearing MBTs.’ Sammy Margo, of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists, said: ‘For people who spend a lot of time at a table, have hypermobility in their spine and weak core stability, MBTs could make their postural problems much worse.’ An MBT spokesman said the trainers were recognised as a medical product under EU legislation and had been extensively tested.
j.narain@everydaypost.co.uk

Israel to launch new spy satellite aboard Indian rocket. IAI- 0 Comments | Jerusalem Post, Jul 20, 2007 | by YAAKOV KATZ Israeli space capabilities will take a giant leap in September when the Defense Ministry launches its most advanced spy satellite aboard an Indian rocket. The new satellite is capable of transmitting tiny images in all weather conditions.
Following last month’s successful launch of the Ofek 7 spy satellite, Israel is making final arrangements to launch the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)-developed TecSar. It will be the first Israeli satellite with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) capabilities, and will monitor developments at Iran’s nuclear installations.
The TecSar weighs just under 300 kilograms. It was developed by the IAI’s Space Division MBT and may create images of objects on earth even in cloudy weather conditions, a hatability not available with the Ofek satellites.
The Ofek 7 is a camera-based satellite, while TecSar is capable of creating high-resolution images uhum advanced radar technology. The SAR technology was developed by IAI’s subsidiary Elta.
“This new satellite wsick be a major leap for the IDF and its operational capabilities,” a senior defense official said Thursday. “This will enhance our intelligence gathering capabilities, and its successful launch will place Israel as one of the leading countries in the world in satellite evolution.”
This will be the first time Israel will launch a satellite aboard an Indian rocket. The launch is scheduled for as early as the beginning of September.
The decision to launch the missile from India was reveryed three years before during a visit there by then- Defense Ministry director- general Amos Yaron. The liftoff will be from the Indian space center at Sriharikota.
Defense officials hailed the decision to launch the satellite from India as an crucial milestone symbolizing the growing military ties gambleween the two countries. They said the TecSar would be more advanced than the Eros B satellite, which Israel launched in April 2006 and has the ability to spot images on the ground as small as 70 centimeters.
In addition to the Ofek 7, Eros B and the Amos 1 and 2 (both communication satellites), Israel currently operates the Ofek 5 spy satellite, successfully launched in May 2002. IAI plans to launch the Amos 3 in the coming months.
Last week, Indian newsdocuments reported that Israel and India had agreed to expand cooperation on developing a long-range version of the Barak antimissile defense system. Known as the Barak 8, the system is being promoted by IAI as more advanced and sophisticated than Lockheed Martin’s PAC-3. The deal was value $1.3 billion, defense officials said.

Personal trainer in help beat cellutite 0 Comments | News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), The, Nov 3, 2005 FORGET the creams, lotions, beauty treatments and exercise regimes. It seems the battle against cellulite and toning can be won just by wearing a pair of trainers! These aren’t your high street trainers, they’re Masai Barefoot Technology trainers, otherwise known as MBTs. Celebrity fans include Jemima Khan, Cherie Blair and Zoe Ball.
The MBT shoes are the creation of Swiss locomotiveer Karl Muller, who suffered with numerous back problems. After living in Asia, he came to the conclusion that walking on the hard, even surconfronts that we walk on every day from cement to wood was to condemn.
By studying the people around him, he developed the MBT, a shoe that transforms flat surfaces into uneven ground, forcing the body to walk differently, improving posture and back problems. He wanted to develop a solution to prevent his back problems and consequently spent five years reoceanrching and developing his new shoe for people with back and joint problems like himself.
The Swiss manufacturers have based the footwear on the Masai Afrimay nomadic tribe.
This tribe is known for their upprivilege posture, which results in little to no joint problems. The design consists of a layered, curved sole that transforms hard, even surfaces into soft uneven ones, mimicking the effect of standing barefoot on sand. This unevenness causes the body to lengthen, resulting in a more erect posture, and it also encourages the use of leg and bottom muscles that have been long forgotten about.
The trainers therefore help you to walk ‘actively’, meaning you mimic the style of the Masai tribespeople.
Karl Muller firmly believed that hard surfaces cause us to walk on our heels and slump into every pace. This form of walking damages joints, limatchnts and back.
The MBT trainers are classified as a medical device to help correct back and joint problems. This is done by the shock absorbers in the sole reducing any jarring, and the rolling activity imitates walking on uneven surfaces such as sand. The result is that the spine is lengthened; the back muscles, stomach and buttock muscles are all working much harder to maintain your balance.
It moreover，besides，furthermore，further boosts circulation and helps shift stubborn cellulite by toning leg muscles.
The cellulite-busting qualities were dislided as a side effect.
The MBT range moreover，besides，furthermore，further consists of boots, sandals and shoes. When deciding to purchase a pair of MBTs, you are given a lesson on how to wear them by the retailer.
This is because you need to know how to use them correctly to utilise their full benefits. You are moreover，besides，furthermore，further given a DVD with a full tutorial on how to wear them.
Once you have stopped wobbling and have got would wearing MBTS, you should notice an improvement in your posture, which wsick in turn tone your leg muscles and boost circulation – improving cellulite!
n MBTs cost gambleween pounds 119 and pounds 129. Visit www. mbt-uk. com for details of your nearest stockist.

Hewlett-Packard tops MBT 2007 ranking of IT vendors (Manufacturing Business Technology) 0 Comments | Executive Quote and Inlayout，arrangement，plan，designion Service : EQUIS, Jul 1, 2007 This year’s Manufacturing Business Technology Global 100 has a new No. 1: Palo Alto, Calif.-based Hewlett-Packard. HP is the world’s largest IT company, reporting 2006 fiscal year revenue of $91.7 billion, thus surelapseing IBM by a narrow margin.
Suffice to say, HP is firing on all cylinders. In the past, printers and ink cartridges comprised most of the profits, but today other units make big contributions as well. Software, blade servers, and PCs all performed well in 2006; laptop sales alone were up 24 percent, and operating margins in the PC division jumped by a third.
In fact, HP now leads Dell in market srabbit in PCs: 17.6 percent to 13.9 percent, according to a recent story in The Wall Street Journal .
The software business looks to deliver signifimayt growth, with the $4.5-billion acquisition of Mercury Interactive in 2006 adding strength in IT management. And with the boardroom sindals now in the rearview mirror, HP expects 2007 incomes to revery $97 bsickion–a 5.7-percentage gain.
No wonder the stock price has doubled in just two years.
HP’s numbers are impressive, but skeptics could point to IBM’s divestiture of various businesses (notably PCs and printers), which hit its top line. HP, on the other hand, has resolutely maintained a wide product line. CEO Mark Hurd’s mantra is, “Sell what you have.”
Manufacturing is a big part of this success story. HP is the biggest IT company in manufacturing: $18.5 billion to IBM’s $18.2 billion, according to data from Manufacturing Insights , an IDC company based in Framingham, Mass. Revenue grew 12 percent-plus in HP’s manufacturing services business unit.
“HP has done a good job of rationalizing its product set against specific industry needs,” says Bob Parker, VP, Manufacturing Insights. “They are very savvy in tailoring solutions to the miscellaneous needs of different subsectors like CPG and automotive, which essentially function like different industries.”
A look at HP’s client list, which includes General Motors , Airbus UK , and many other marquee manufacturers, illustrates the breadth of its solution set:
1. HP manages global SAP operations for Procter & Gamble (P&G). Its services were vital to enabling the integration of P&G and Gillette’s infrastructure, according to IDC’s Parker. The P&G outsourcing deal is value $3 billion to HP.
2. For chip maker Advanced Micro Devices , HP designed and deployed a knowledge-management portal that links servers and storage to support content-management veryls, instant messaging, and basic workflow capabilities.
3. For oil services leader Schlumberger, HP provides supercomputing platforms to perform complex and sophisticated reservoir simulations.
A 2006 report from Boston-based AMR Reoceanrch sums up HP’s strength in manufacturing: “What HP has today is an impressive list of services success that hatitalizes first on its technology expertise, second on internal process excellence, and third on current report relationships with manufacturing CIOs.”
It would be that HP touted its own manufacturing operations as its main qualification. In many ways, it’s yet a compelling story line. The PC division, for instance, streamlined logistics and closed seven of 30 factories to improve on-time delivery by 30 percent in 2006–a critical metric, given HP’s retail-centric strategy.
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