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All rights reserved.   Top Stories !MES Roundtable from Plant Engineering Summit now online One of the hot technologies in manufacturing is manufacturing execution systems, and one of the hot questions is how you measure value for the investment in MES. At Plant Engineering’s Manufacturing Summit, panelists David Frede of GE Fanuc, Michael Gay of Rockwell Automation and Bob Ziegenfuse of Advanced Automation Associates tackled that question and others from attendees in a discussion moderated by Plant Engineering editor Bob Vavra. For a transcript of that discussion, click here. !MES supplier CIMNET shows 23% growth Manufacturing execution system provider CIMNET announced solid growth for the first quarter of 2007. Revenue was up 23% to just over $1.2 million for the quarter ending March 31, 2007. The company has increased administrative and R&D costs with increased staff and a move to CIMNET’s new corporate facility. “As always, we continued to further develop our core technologies,” said CIMNET CEO John Richardson. “In addition in the first quarter of 2007, CIMNET successfully moved its business operations to a larger, more scalable facility to meet the demands of our current growth.” !Aberdeen study looks at data collection The issue of plant floor visibility is one Plant Engineering magazine will tackle in its May issue. A new study by the Aberdeen Group looks at how data collected on the plant floor is transferred throughout the enterprise, and how best-in-class manufacturers use that data . Among the issues discussed: • Which pieces of plant floor data are collected? • How is plant floor data collected? • Which job roles and functional groups within the enterprise utilize plant floor data? • How is technology utilized in regard to shop floor data? To receive a copy of the study, click here. !MESA seeks speakers for annual conference May 18 is the deadline to offer a presentation for MESA’s annual Plant-To-Enterprise Conference: Integration to Innovation on Sept. 16-18, at the Rosen Plaza Hotel, Orlando. MESA is looking for presentations from end users or manufacturers, or joint presentations from MES vendors and manufacturers. Presentation abstracts should be e-mailed to hq@MESA.org. Presenters should include contact information and a 300-word description of the presentation theme. Plant Engineering is a media sponsor of the MESA conference. For more information, call MESA (480) 893-6883 or go to their Website, www.mesa.org. !Innovation matters at Maximo World The theme for Maximo World 2007, is “Innovation That Matters”. The 21st annual Maximo user conference will be July 22-25, in Orlando. Plant Engineering will be presenting its study, “The Changing Role of the Plant Engineer” at the Maximo conference. For more information, go to http://email.plantengineering.com/cgi-bin2/DM/y/hA0LvpzK0A0DE5q0E6. !Global growth seen for MES systems A new Frost & Sullivan study, “Strategic Analysis of the World Manufacturing Execution Systems Market” takes an overview of on now just the growth in the MES market, but how global companies are using MES technology and what individual market trends are driving changes in the MES market. The research looks at the world manufacturing execution systems market and provides forecasts through 2013. To receive the study, click here. Products Upcoming Events Sponsor Comprehensive MES Evaluation Tool Click here for your Free Download of a comprehensive MES evaluation tool that helps make sense of what the market has to offer. Easily generate concise and well organized graphic enriched reports based on straightforward inputs to analyse any system's functional capability. 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