: Wonderware Enterprise Integration Application

Taken from The Wonderware Enterprise Integration white paper - By Tim Sowell, Vice President of Product Strategy for Wonderware

In today’s competitive and dynamic manufacturing environment, there is a critical need to complete the manufacturing supply chain by linking manufacturing systems and business applications. The Wonderware Enterprise Integration Application (e-mail us for a copy of the complete white paper) facilitates this fundamental enterprise integration, empowering Wonderware customers to achieve sustainable profitability through full synchronization between business and manufacturing systems.

Wonderware's Enterprise Integration Application enables:

Configurable transactional integration with business applications, including:

• Integration of manufacturing systems with enterprise business systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, J.D. Edwards);

• Operational integration between multiple manufacturing sites and solutions (i.e., a product completed at one plant can then be utilized at another plant);

• Transactional integration between manufacturing and other supply-chain applications in a manufacturing environment (e.g., advanced-planning, LIMS, PLM and quality-management systems); and

• Integration with existing messaging and middleware investments (e.g., WebSphere, TIBCO, MQ Series), aligned with existing infrastructure and IT strategies.

Master data management for manufacturing operations

• There is a repository for all information related to manufacturing operations, facilitating the execution and coordination of manufacturing operations.

Localized dispatching of production work orders

• Release individual production work orders to actual manufacturing resources on the plant floor, for faster execution and increased accuracy in execution.

Adoption of industry standards

• Total cost of ownership (TCO) can be reduced by adopting industry standards for the integration of enterprise and control systems and for manufacturing interoperability. The Wonderware Enterprise Integration Application encapsulates and re-uses engineering and best practices in accordance with these standards.

Wonderware’s Enterprise Integration Application can operate automatically. It can transparently send and receive messages. It can transform and modify message content while controlling the sequence of operations required to maintain connections between two or more applications.

The Wonderware Enterprise Integration Application leverages ArchestrA technology to provide a highly flexible real-time event system. It also offers powerful orchestration and workflow management functions. It serves as a transactional-messaging integration layer to the ArchestrA architecture. As a result, Wonderware customers benefit from:

• Complete architectural freedom;

• Out-of-the-box integration to hundreds of applications in both the manufacturing automation space and business applications;

• Powerful graphical configuration that enables assembly, rather than programming, of message transformation and event detection;

• Configuration of workflow transformations and real-time event mappings, so they can be easily established and maintained; and

• A very flexible, robust architecture, which enables existing business and manufacturing systems to work in a complementary fashion that is loosely coupled yet extremely reliable.

In essence, the Wonderware Enterprise Integration Application addresses the current need for transactional business integration in manufacturing automation systems.

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