May/June 2006 - Vol 2 No 3 

Manufacturing and Energy - What's the Cost?

New Calculation Operators

Dr Cost: Variance Reporting

Client: École Polytechnique

 

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    This month we'll take a look at the impact of rising energy costs on manufacturers and highlight how one Canadian university is using Impact:ECS as an integral part of their research on process integration in the pulp and paper industry.

Dr. Cost is back with another dose of costing insight - providing you with tools for your costing check up. Learn about creating effective variance reports for a number of important cost variables.  Be sure to submit your questions to Dr Cost and get a 3C Software polo shirt if your entry is published.
     

       
           
 

 

Manufacturing and Energy - What's the Cost?

With rising energy costs worldwide, manufacturers are challenged to better manage energy costs to protect their profits. This article describes some of the challenges facing companies and recommendations on how to change their approach to energy efficiency. 

 

   

 

This month Dr. Cost gives his

prescription for developing

effective variance reports for

some of your most critical

Impact:ECS model data.

 
 

Producing Meaningful

 Variance Reports

 
 

 

Closing the Divide Between Cost and Process Data
Through 3C Software’s Education Partnership Program, doctoral students at École Polytechnique de Montréal have incorporated Impact:ECS into their research in the effort to develop new and innovative techniques for business process integration, supply chain management and operations design for the pulp and paper industry.

 

Do you have an Impact:ECS success story to share? Submit your story telling us about how your company uses Impact:ECS and the results achieved to press@3csoftware.com.

 

   
 

 

New Calculation Operators

In the latest release of Impact:ECS, four new logic functions have been added to improve the performance of Calculations within your Models.


Do you have Impact:ECS features or tools that you want to have highlighted in the newsletter? Send your requests to us at press@3csoftware.com.

 
 

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