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18 Collaborative Environments in Manufacturing Operations continued Siemens (www.siemens.com) Siemens offer to manufacturing operations is TIA – Totally Integrated Automation – covering all aspects of automation and control. For Siemens, TIA ranges from the sensor, actuator and local controller level to the interfaces between factories, warehouses, transportation and business systems. Siemens offers capability across the entire spectrum, from supply of automation components to taking project responsibility for global automation projects. Siemens has observed increasing demand for active collaboration. Tight integration between ERP and factory systems optimises what, when and how to produce. But today’s manufacturers are moving further, to create collaborative environments to ensure they can react to every unexpected event, every change in requirements, and every new opportunity. Siemens supports this requirement by providing rule-based interaction among different systems and reaction in real-time to any condition on the plant floor. These automated systems create a unified information base and timely triggers to guide manufacturing operations people in any role, in any location to work together to solve problems and respond to new requirements. A key Siemens offering in this range is SIMATIC IT, which fits the category of ‘manufacturing execution system’ (MES); that is to say, it fills the gap between local machine, work-centre or production-line automation, and business system integration. By following the global architectural approach of the ISA 95 standard, and supporting a fully graphical environment for definition of the plant model and the rules for operating procedures, Siemens has created bundled subsets of SIMATIC IT to address specific requirements at various levels, such as: • Starting level – data management, material management and order management; • Intermediate level – basic tracking and tracing, basic production management; Overview level – production suite. • Siemen’s entire TIA product portfolio is based on Microsoft technologies and all SIMATIC IT products are developed using Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET environments. At an application and user interface level, Microsoft Office System components Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet software and can be used for data analysis. SIMATIC IT products are structured as three tier applications: • On the presentation tier, Microsoft Internet Explorer is used to display Microsoft.NET screens that help users to interact with the system and carry out production management activities; • On the business tier Microsoft Internet Information Server and .NET Framework are used to manage access and interaction with SIMATIC IT Data Servers; • On the data tier Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is used to store SIMATIC IT data. Transactional support is provided by Microsoft DTC (Distributed Transaction Coordinator). SIMATIC IT Application Servers expose standard COM (Component Object Model) interfaces and can interact with B2B systems such as Microsoft BizTalk Server using B2MML messages - the XML implementation of ISA 95. User interfaces for MES users are developed as Web Applications using a customisation of Visual Studio .NET. LEADING EDGE COLL ABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS IN DISCRETE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
Collaborative Environments in Warehousing, Distribution and Logistics Manhattan Associates (www.manh.com) Since its earliest days, Manhattan Associates has delivered technology to efficiently move goods through the supply chain. Originally known as a leader in warehouse management solutions, Manhattan Associates has expanded its solution capabilities to support all supply chain needs. Today, Manhattan Associates’ Integrated Logistics Solutions TM cover: • Advanced planning; • Replenishment; • Distributed order management; • Warehouse management; • Transportation management; • Trading partner management; • RFID solutions; • Reverse logistics management; • Performance management; Carrier management. • Manhattan Associates delivers solutions to target specific customer needs, overcome supply chain challenges, and increase productivity. This involves co-ordination of internal and trading partner business processes and workflows – from source to consumption and every point in between. When it comes to the supply chain, one size does not fit all. For example: • Pharmaceutical requirements and expiration date control mean little to the consumer electronics or furniture manufacturer. • Foodservice distributors are not typically concerned with subassembly components. • Apparel manufacturers and retailers take a different view of supplier workflows and time-to-market demands than do automotive OEMs and suppliers. Trading Partner Management is one example of the way that Manhattan Associates supports collaboration. This solution recognises the trend towards outsourcing and off-shoring in manufacturing and, within those distributed operations, the need to be agile and responsive. In particular, companies need to be free to change and adjust outsourcing arrangements. This means that IT support for collaboration must be easy to deploy, and easy for partners to adopt. “ Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet software is widely used as the “last mile of ERP”, connecting users to business systems in the supply chain. Excel is used in three main ways: • as a spreadsheet for calculations to support decision making • as a front end for specialist supply chain applications • as a common language for communication between supply chain partners. “ As a standard desktop tool, Excel allows every company, regardless of size, to participate in collaborative supply chain activities.” Enrico Camerinelli, European Supply Chain Council Director and Chief Analyst LEADING EDGE COLL ABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS IN DISCRETE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES 19
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