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Monday, July 9, 2007 |
Airplane reading on the way to Israel--The MIT Sloan Management Review.
Interesting article: The 7 Deadly Sins of Performance Management
Vanity
Provincialism
Narcissism
Laziness
Pettiness
Inanity
Frivolity
A useful definition (I didn't note the article where I lifted this):
Critical thinking is the ability to examine the premises of any argument.
11:30:07 AM 
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Another Mintchell I suppose I should let my readers know that I'm a grandfather now. My son's wife had a boy on 7/7/7. Now, will I still be able to run when it's time to teach the kid soccer? His dad played college soccer and his mom played on the high school team. If he avoided my miserable athletic genes, then he has a chance ;-) (and, no, they didn't name him Gary--that name was thrown out in the first round). All is well so far. By the way, I have three brothers, among us we have four boys, and this is the first male child of the next generation. A total of 9 Mintchells in the world. I've never found anyone outside our immediate family with the name. Makes you wonder who made what spelling error in the mid-1800s.
11:20:30 AM
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WBF has released version 4 of the Business to Manufacturing Markup Language (B2MML) and it is available for download from its site. B2MML is a complement to ISA-95 Enterprise-Control System Integration Standard. This new release supports recently released Part 5 that defines standard transactions that allow business and manufacturing systems to have a dialog using existing ISA-95 data objects. V 04 also supports interoperability of standards by defining transactions that are consistent with OAGIS's (Open Applications Group's XML business language) transactions. It also supports UN/CEFACT core components which further aids in interoperability with other XML vocabularies.
"B2MML V04 provides the transactional support requested by manufacturers and system suppliers to enable a robust implementation of the ISA-95 standard," says Dave Emerson the WBF's XML Working Group Chairman. "This work was accomplished with support from working group members in the U.S., Europe and Asia so it truly represents a global resource that can be used to improve the total cost of ownership of integrating manufacturing systems with enterprise systems."
"The new standard with support for transactions brings a new level of functionality and will significantly speed up implementations by vendors and end users, reducing integration project time and effort and simplifying MES to ERP integration," says Dennis Brandl, President of BR&L Consulting and member of the WBF working group.
9:54:25 AM
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We often write about the need for and progress toward interoperability in automation products. Many users wonder if suppliers just pay lip service to the ideal. Well, here's a column from CNet about interoperability in the computer world. Same problems. Users would really love it--it would make life easier and more productive. But companies with a significant enough market share really need to lock you in to their environment in order to preserve market share. A supplier finding the right mix of opening up interfaces along with proprietary improvements must be difficult.
7:05:12 AM
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