October 1994 / State Of The Art

Get That Data!	Making business-related data available for computer processing is aided by some remarkable new tools for improved product design, production monitoring, and elimination of time-consuming paperwork - by Russell Kay
Design Of A Lifetime	New computer-based tools will help product designers capture their design decisions and rationales, take the entire product life cycle into account up front, and facilitate collaborative design - by Sara Reese Hedberg
MADE in the U.S.A.	While work is under way in the industry to develop internal tools that support life-cycle design, one of the largest efforts in the world is being funded by ARPA, the DoD's (Department of Defense's) research arm that sponsored the development of the Internet some 25 years ago.
Process Control's New Face	Windows-based PCs are becoming an important part of the industrial world, controlling manufacturing and other operations while feeding back data in real time for analysis and decision-making - by Mark Clarkson
EDI Moves The Data	Using electronic documents in normal business activities can be efficient and economical. Digital mechanisms can introduce greater levels of security and verification than paper could ever provide. - by Peter Wayner
Digital Cash	At present, EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) networks support financial transactions in the form of messages that are, in essence, digital versions of a bank check.
Whose Authentication Systems?	Who provides the accepted standard of authenticity to the network world?

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