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SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE Shopfloor Data and the Future of Manufacturing Edited by Chris Felix Redundancy is far too common in many areas of life. Standardized processes that streamline production might be the perfect solution. s anyone who has recently dealt with the health care system knows, doctors, hospitals and other providers must gather a seemingly unending stream of information from each patient. It seems that every visit requires the patient to fll out reams of paper forms, much of it with the same information that was provided in previous visits. And if that isn't annoying enough, when the doctor refers the patient to a hospital for any reason, many of the same questions must be addressed again, and often more than once within the same facility. A 40 PRODUCTION MACHINING :: AUGUST 2013 Now, no one disputes the importance of these health care providers having good information before treating a patient, but why all of the redundancy? One answer is that the medical community, fnancial institutions and many other enterprises have been struggling to improve their information systems for decades with limited success. Te chief problem is that a seemingly infnite number of legacy software systems exist that simply can't communicate with one another. For years, these institutions relied on proprietary operating systems and custom database software that