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16 Collaborative Environments in Manufacturing Operations Apriso (www.apriso.com) Apriso offers FlexNet software to provide global control of manufacturing and supply processes. FlexNet uses an approach that is event-driven, real-time, and process-aware. By integrating into an existing software infrastructure, Apriso can effectively extend the reach of an existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to an extended production and supply network. The FlexNet “enterprise execution” software builds on an integrated business process modelling capability focused on supply chain execution. FlexNet Process Builder manages relationships between operations, steps, work centres, machines, materials, tooling, documentation, operator skills and operator capacity to define procedures and workflows. Production users, quality controllers, maintenance operators and logistics users work according to this framework to synchronise execution and reporting of their work. Critical events are signalled as FlexNet alerts which can trigger e-mail and SMS messages, and can be handled by FlexNet applications. Appropriate information is stored for traceability, and used to drive suitable ERP transactions. Many production processes require several people, each with different rights and skills, to collaborate to execute coordinated actions. Apriso use FlexNet’s process modelling to create a collaborative environment, which not only maintains a shared model of operations executed by people with different roles, but also automatically triggers selected tasks or processes when defined conditions occur. This approach blends automation with collaboration between people to support, for example: • Quality control, where automated sampling may lead to review by an operator with certified skills, and approval by a superviser to initiate a machine adjustment; • Automated signalling from a production line for material replenishment from a warehouse; • Search for and identification of a particular resource or component; • Prioritisation of selected activities, for example, final assembly, to match shippng plans; Creation and maintenance of documentation required to satisfy relevant regulations. • FlexNet is fully Web-based using the Microsoft .NET Framework. FlexNet Alerts are communicated to e-mail and other recipients using Microsoft Exchange Server. FlexNet uses the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database, and integrates with ERP systems using Microsoft BizTalk Server. Documents and generated reports can be stored and shared using Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server. The FlexNet “enterprise execution” software Distribution of tasks and information between employees and managers With company business rules and logic LEADING EDGE COLL ABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS IN DISCRETE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES Warehouse location Data and Components Material Identification Data and Components Quality Data and Components Production Data and Components Packaging Data and Components Time/Labour Data and Components
Invensys Wonderware (www.wonderware.com) Invensys Wonderware developed the ArchestrA architecture based on project goals being set by customers. In the past, PC-based automation systems started as single computers connected to a machine or specific manufacturing equipment. Customers focused on automation of individual production lines, or plant areas; or they started to centralise plant manufacturing information. Now, customers are aiming to optimise their entire manufacturing enterprise, using consistent application solutions. Targets include: • Improve KPIs to be comparable with, or better than, competitors; Reuse best practice for plant optimisation and supply-chain integration. • But, achieving this locally is not good enough, it is necessary to take into account all plants as well as the demand and availability signals that come from customers and suppliers. Manufacturers need solutions to help ensure that defined processes are enforceable, repeatable, and appropriately automated. Invensys Wonderware recognises that for leading companies, this is just one side of the coin because, for leaders, the most critical performance edge often comes from empowering the people involved. Each manufacturing corporation possesses a unique set of cultures, management structures, and skill sets that need to be supported with specific views of production and performance. This visibility needs to be available in real time, to help the collaborative efforts of the right people to be harnessed quickly to react to inevitable variations in customer orders, supplies, and plant asset availability. The CFO, COO, plant manager, operations superviser, plant engineer, maintenance manager, quality manager and plant floor operator all need different views of information, and can initiate different actions according to their roles. Invensys Wonderware developed the ArchestrA architecture and orchestration technology to deploy flexible information models as a unifying layer on top of the different existing systems in manufacturing environments. This enures secure, reliable delivery of harmonised information in views tailored to the individual user. In this way, every dashboard, scorecard, alerting display and portal used at every level can be based on actual status information. The result is consistent information that helps align collaborative efforts to analyse “what if?” and “can we meet this request?” types of question. By integrating production equipment control capabilities with this environment of shared information, Invensys Wonderware creates a collaborative setting for the people involved in manufacturing operations. Invensys Wonderware software solutions are built on top of the .NET Framework and Windows Server System environment technologies. Add-ins help Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet software and Microsoft Word users to create reports from the same information used for production management. Integration of manufacturing applications with Microsoft SharePoint Server supports distribution and sharing of documents. Microsoft SQL Server database is used as the core manufacturing information repository, and to manage the plant application configuration database. XML, Web Services, and Microsoft BizTalk Server are used to integrate business systems and plant systems. Together with Invensys Wonderware’s ArchestrA technology, this approach ensures connectivity of plant systems both through industry standards such as OPC and also using more than 325 network and automation system protocols. LEADING EDGE COLL ABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS IN DISCRETE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES 17
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