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Another fine MES we’ve gotten into
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01/03/2005
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Manufacturers, consultants and system and software vendors have been talking for the best part of 25 years about the need to achieve closer integration between the plant floor and corporate level IT. Talk of computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) and of General Motors’ Manufacturing Application Protocol (MAP) in the 1980s may have given way in the ‘90s to catchier tags, like ‘shopfloor to top floor’ and ‘sensor to boardroom’, but the message was still one of solving physical and data incompatibility problems. Of connecting disparate business IT and automation systems
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Author
Brian Tinham
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