Jürgen Wasem-Gutensohn

Still there are many areas in Germany which must do without fast Internet connection. Telecommunication service providers such as htp in Hanover use innovative techniques to provide these areas with DSL access. In addition to high-speed Internet access, htp customers can furthermore use the traditional telephone services while htp at the same time prepares its network for a possible future conversion to "All IP".

The division Manufacturing Units of the Gardena group in Heuchlingen/Germany produces 250 million plastic parts of different sizes and weights per year. Gardena is well known as a supplier of garden care products. For some months all quality management testing at the Heuchlingen location is clone using a solution based on CAQ=QSYS Professional from IBS AG. The result is a higher transparency in quality testing processes, a simplification of inspection planning and concomitantly improved process reliability.

In Industrieunternehmen ist die Nutzung elektronischer Einkaufssysteme seit langem üblich. Nun finden diese Systeme nach und nach Eingang in Dienstleistungsunternehmen, so auch bei der Deutschen Bank. BANK MAGAZIN beschreibt die zugrundeliegende technische Lösung und die ersten Erfahrungen des Instituts bei der Einführung des Systems.