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June 16, 2008
Getting Standards Under One Roof
“Now that I’ve got my SAP program installed my processing facility should run like a top. Right? Right?”
While that is the idea that most folks have when they invest in ERP software like SAP, but they often find out that the trouble is in the details, or all of the connections to the process, lab, warehouse, etc. that enable ERP systems to work as they need to. Furthermore each of those areas of the plant may “speak” a different language requiring custom ERP interfaces, with attendant revision monitoring, maintenance, etc. A recent article in Managing Automation magazine, “Getting Standards under one roof (282KB PDF),” featured Suncor Energy’s recent efforts to grapple with this exact problem. The route to the problem is standardization of languages and interfaces amongst applications. You can read there how ISA, MIMOSA, WBF, and the OPC Foundation are working together to develop and promote better standards for application communications. Learn about the Open O&M initiative that promises to resolve this issue for end users.
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