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Northeast
Ohio EC/EDI User Group Meeting Announcement
The next meeting of the User Group will
be:
Date:
Tuesday, 17-July-2001
Time:
1:30- 4:00 pm
Place:
Holiday Inn, Independence on Rockside Road
Junction of I-480 & I-77
Topic:
Case Study: Web-Based Rail Car
Telemetry using XML
BP Chemicals' Acrylonitriles Division contracted with CTG to build them a
web-based vendor managed inventory system in 1999. The application
included a rail car tracking feature based on flat file transfers from a rail
car tracking company, also under contract to BP. The rail car tracking
feature proved to be among the most valuable features to BP's customers and the
application has evolved to meet their needs. The latest phase involves
devices installed directly on rail cars, which send telemetry data, via XML
files, to the Internet server. The presentation will discuss the evolution
of rail car tracking data and its uses in this e-commerce
web application.
Speaker:
Mary K. Stevenson, CTG Inc.
Mary Stevenson spent 14 years as an environmental chemist and
programmer before switching to computer programming full-time 4 years
ago. As an environmental chemist she supervised various state and
federal permitting processes and hazardous waste investigations. She
also spent three years as the operations manager of a specialty chemical
supplier in charge of chemicals import/export, NAFTA compliance, tracking
and receiving, ISO 9000 compliance, and small business accounting. She is
currently a Team Lead for web development with CTG's Cleveland Solution
Center. She is the lead developer and business analyst for
several web-based B2B and B2C applications that require data exchange
including a vendor managed inventory system, a chemical certificate of
analysis repository, a rail car tracking system, and a steel construction
component manufacturer B2C site. |
