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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 3:53:16 PM   The technology expertise required to successfully integrate plant-floor systems with enterprise applications has resulted in a spate of unusual vendor couplings. Many of the latest MES and ERP vendors' relationships are a result of companies looking beyond point-to-point integration efforts. IBM Corp. (Armonk, NY) has been wooing factory-floor vendors with its WebSphere middleware, positioning its technology, and itself, as the missing link for sensor-to-boardroom integration. It appears IBM has been successful. Some recent announcements align IBM with automation giants Invensys plc (London, England) and Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI), EAM vendor MRO Software Inc. (Bedford, MA), and Camstar Inc. (Campbell, CA), a provider of collaborative MES applications. [Click to continue] |