Lean Manufacturing Process: Your business, your customers and your competitors don’t stand still. Products are more complex and product lifecycles are shorter. Globalization is increasing competition and changing how you collaborate with suppliers. And in order to implement leaner manufacturing processes, you have to find ways to integrate your business from the shop floor to design to the executive suite.

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Impact Far Beyond the Data Center

Your business, your customers and your competitors don’t stand still. Products are more complex and product lifecycles are shorter. Globalization is increasing competition and changing how you collaborate with suppliers. And in order to implement leaner manufacturing processes, you have to find ways to integrate your business from the shop floor to design to the executive suite.

Like the rest of your world, information technology also does not stand still. It is constantly advancing and improving, presenting new benefits and new possibilities for manufacturers. At the same time, the variety and complexity of technologies make it essential that you choose them carefully — in order to ensure that your business’s flexibility is maximized while the risks and costs are minimized.

And because your information technology is central to your business, your organization’s future hangs in the balance: how well you can reduce costs, increase returns on assets, enhance productivity, strengthen customer relationships, respond to competitive challenges and create what your customers want to buy.

Decisions that Define Your Future

There are a small number of information technology decisions that can truly define your future — the business possibilities and performance going forward. The introduction of Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor-based systems presents one of those opportunities.

Far more than just “fast servers,� an infrastructure built on Dual-Core Intel Xeon platforms improves your return on IT assets while enabling entirely new business possibilities. Based on the advanced Intel® Core™ microarchitecture and built with complementary advanced technologies, these servers comprise a powerful, flexible, cost-effective fabric that not only delivers value in the data center, but forms a powerful pivot around which you gain new business advantages by doing things you couldn’t do before:

• Accelerate the pace of innovation — for new processes, reduced waste and improved quality — to fuel growth.
• Design more complex products faster and respond to shorter product lifecycles.
• Transform supply chains to be much more responsive and efficient while increasing collaboration with your suppliers and partners.
• Exceed customer expectations and strengthen customer relationships.
• Lower operating costs and increase the productivity of your assets and people.

In short, the business capabilities and innovations enabled by a Dual-Core Xeon processor-based infrastructure can make your company leaner, more agile and more competitive.

An infrastructure based on Intel’s new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based systems is advanced in fundamental ways, combining multiple synergistic capabilities. And it’s based on industry standards, connecting you to the largest network of hardware, software and solution providers — maximizing your choices, driving your costs down and giving you access to constant innovation and advances.

Manufacturing companies like yours are capitalizing on these advantages now — the question is, will you?

Business Innovation Made Possible

Intel continues to build more capabilities into platforms so you can do much more. With Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based platforms, we combine effective technologies, software services and industry alliances that optimize your infrastructure to deliver the right business services more efficiently and at low cost.

Fundamental business solutions that allow IT to increase performance and efficiency. Enjoy powerful and affordable servers that deliver core business processes, including application servers, e-mail servers, Web servers and more. For example, new Intel Xeon processor-based servers can run core Web-based operations up to 58% faster than similarly configured competitive offerings.

Supply chain collaboration solutions that turn traditional supply chains into sense-and-respond demand chains and increase collaboration with suppliers and customers. New Intel Xeon processor-based servers outperform similarly configured competitive offerings for SAP’s sales and distribution benchmark by up to 20%

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools that use real-time data from multiple sources and applications to improve decision making and efficiency. New Intel Xeon processor-based servers have industry-leading reliability features that protect your core business processes from downtime and help ensure you have the information you need when you need it. And preventing downtime also saves significant cost — up to $2 million per hour, depending on the industry.