So why not think creatively from get-go and put a factory floor information system in place that can help you and your company move forward with Lean concepts of identifying problems, flow of parts, and measure change over times? Just because Toyota did not use electronic information systems, does not make it wrong to install them on floor. To contrary, it is American Manufacturer that has opportunity to improve on these Lean concepts with information systems that can be married into a Lean process improvement program. 1. Make sure entire factory floor is involved with system and that they are empowered to identify problem/alert situations.

2. Allow system to provide a JIT production approach, which is dynamic and can be reactive to customer and floor demands.

3. Find a way to record changeover times tracked to specific assets and people.

4. Identify opportunities for process improvement and keep a record of it.

5. Allow floor personnel access to better communications like email where appropriate.

6. Improve operator’s access to data by providing electronic “paperless” display of current, as well as, newer style electronic image and video documents.

7. Make quality checks part of process and capture it electronically so alert conditions of non-conformance conditions can be captured in real-time.

Implementation of Lean Manufacturing through a factory floor system can save time and money and put you in driver seat towards more profitable production.

Think creatively. Use information tools creatively. Use information tools that are designed to improve process.

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FDX XML Server is another XML Server available in market. This product is created by Snapbridge. This server is also used to create and deploy sophisticated XML applications. XSL, XSLT and scripts are supported in this server so that data can be transformed to any format requested by user or any other application.

Sonic XML Server is another product from Sonic software which is built upon native XML processing engine. This helps in pipelined processing of XML documents which eliminates need for generating intermediate xml text file for processing. This improves speed of transaction dramatically.

This pipelined processing of document helps in very large and complex processing tasks to improve speed of those tasks. The in-built engine in Sonic XML Server enables a user to store any size of XML document in it and to query, retrieve and update that data.

We have seen that an XML Server is any server that gives an XML document as an output so that other applications can use it for processing. The document can be delivered in any format using XSL and XSLT engines. It is possible for us to write some code in ASP which will serve an XML document to user when they view that ASP page. We can store this code in a web server and this code can be said to be a very simple XML Server since it serves user with an XML document. Go through code given below:

<% response.ContentType="text/xml" response.Write("") response.Write("") response.Write("") response.Write("Its You") response.Write("The book outlines steps involved in developing an XML Web Server") response.Write("") %>

Save above code in your web server as book.asp and store it in same directory where you stored your other web pages. Then view that page in browser to see an XML document in display. In above code you may note that content type for page is set to “text/xml”. This is why output is displayed as XML file. You may develop a little more complex program to retrieve data from a database and generate an XML document from data retrieved from database. Thus you can start developing your own XML web server.

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