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With the increasing interest of late in deploying Takt Time for service industry scenarios, we have written up a couple of business cases detailing how Takt can be applied to both push and pull demand environments. Please click here to reach the Takt Time Business Cases article web page |
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As part of our commitment to contribute to open source, the Artige Company has placed under GPL license an algorithm that we ended writing to convert binary 64 bit numbers as decimal numbers without losing any precision. As the article explains, this algorithm can be extended to work on different word size platforms and/or different size binary numbers. Please click here to access the algorithm description and download the sample program. |
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Stumped Sudoku puzzle players now have a new resource at their disposal, the Sudoku Solver (SSolver) application! This open source program was written by the Artige Company and is now available for free download for the Windows* platform. SSolver will allow the user to enter in a Sudoku puzzle and have the program solve it immediately, assuming the puzzle is valid and has a single solution. This program is another example of the Artige Company applying Operations Research principles (OR) to solve business problems and even everyday challenges. Please click here to reach the SSolver download web page. |
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For those who wonder what makes a leader or manager, they would be interested in the latest article posted by the Artige Company, titled "All About Leadership and Management and Why they Are Different". This article identifies the factors that separate leadership from management, and notes the relationship between process level and management level. This information was an unexpected but pleasant outcome from our business process design research. What makes this article unique is its reliance upon cause and effect relationships, which makes this research impervious to the "Management du Jour" effect. There is also a discussion on the relationship between leadership and quality. Please click here to access this indispensable management article. |
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Puzzle players can rejoice, as the Artige Company has released another open source program to tickle the cranium. We are proud to announce that our Ziffern logic game is now availability for free download for the Windows* platform. While a fun mathematical game to play, Ziffern was written to demonstrate how Operations Research principles (OR) can be applied to everyday activities. As our satisfied customers know well, the Artige Company specializes in solving difficult production problems using OR principles. We also use OR principles in our business process design consulting and training. So please keep us in mind while you work out the free puzzle game. Please click here to reach the Ziffern download web page. |
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The Artige Company is announcing the details on its ArMES production management system, the next generation real time information system. ArMES is Artige's framework for creating a turnkey solution that is extensible and based upon open standards. It is the foundation that allows us to quickly deliver real time information using Internet technologies. This framework is a fruit of our continuing R&D program in operations research and real time data systems, the same effort that produced our ArLead switchboard system. With ArMES we can develop customized solutions that will improve your bottom line. Please click here to access the web page providing the details concerning ArMES. |
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The Artige Company has developed a new training course, aimed at those people who are interested in developing and reengineering business processes that are more effective and have a better opportunity of generating profits. This course is based on operations research theory, and uses holistic principles to explain how the various quality initiatives are related to business operations and each other. This informative course is titled "Effective Business Process Design". Please click here to view the full course description. |
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The Artige Company has written an article discussing the usage of recursion in XSLT style sheets and how the XSLT result tree is created, plus the limitations that the XSLT language brings to accessing multiple sources and the resulting output tree. Please click here to access this useful style sheet article. |
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For those who are interested in how one can establish a heterogeneous web site on an intranet and expose multiple servers through a single IP address, the Artige Company has published an article detailing web domain forwarding. Such a concern would come up for the person who is contemplating adding a Linux-based Apache web server to an intranet that is only now exposing a single IIS server to the public. Please click here to access this helpful article. |
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The Artige Company is now providing Windows* to Linux application conversion services, as an offshoot of our native Linux application development. This effort is especially geared towards those firms that are running Windows* DNA applications on Windows* NT or Windows* 2000 platforms. More details can be read on our web page detailing our conversions services, please click here to access it. |
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Our "configuration vs. programming" article has been revised and reissued. It now directly analyzes the taxonomy of attaining a system, and comes to the conclusion that most people's concerns on methodology are not warranted; project management is more important than any factor concerning how a system is built, based upon our OR research. The article is now available, please click here to access it. |
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The Artige Company has added yet another free project to its repertoire of open source collection. This time we published the specifications for a system that allows one to reuse an old PS/2 keyboard as a child's toy. When connected to the device constructed from the published plans, one can play musical notes. When the keyboard is resting, the LED lights for Num Lock, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock will be lit up in a periodic pattern. The plans can be accessed from the project page here. An overview for all of our open source projects is available here. |
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As a service to our clients, as well as the public in general, the Artige Company has posted an article that describes the difference between various process design methodologies that one may encounter when considering changes to one's operations. These methodologies include TQM, Quality Management, Kaizen / continuous improvement, ISO 9000, reengineering, change management / BPR, BPM, six sigma and lean manufacturing. All of these popular programs have their roots in operations research, and we seem to be describing them and explaining their differences quite frequently. So it seemed worthwhile to us to post a consistent and impartial description of these methodologies. The article can be found here and is titled "Process Design Appraisal". |
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The Artige Company is now offering consulting on operations research, in addition to IT. This is geared towards those clients that wish to increase efficiencies in their operations, both physical manufacturing processes and workflows experienced in the service industries. While the Artige Company has always had OR capabilities, they were used for product development and as a sideline to the IT consulting. After working with a recent client we found that there is a need in the marketplace for OR consulting on its own. If you wish to engage our OR expertise, please call us at (1) 717-354-5541, or send a message to sales@artige.com. |
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Since the Artige Company has started to rely upon open source software in its product offerings, it is only natural that we should give something back to the community. Starting this year (2004), the Artige Company will be offering some applications with open source license, typically under the GPL. |
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The Artige Company is currently reworking its product line to run under Linux (Red Hat** / Fedora Core), using open source resources wherever possible. In the interim, we are still offering our Window's* based products. However, support cannot be provided for them if they are run on anything beyond Windows* 2000 SP2, Internet Explorer version 5.5 SP2, and SQL Server 2000. |
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** - Red Hat is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. |
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* - Windows is a trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. |
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