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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 2:14:34 PM   If you are in the market for a manufacturing execution system there is one number to keep in mind -- 95. S95, that is. This standard, defined by the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation (ISA) Society, fills the communications gap between manufacturing and the enterprise. It's not new, but it's now gaining traction as more vendors put research and development and marketing muscle behind it in order to create a common way for very different systems to communicate. In brief, S95 defines the terminology between an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and a MES framework. Part of that framework relies heavily on the World Batch Forum (WBF) standard, called the business-to-manufacturing markup language (B2MML), which serves up the appropriate context around the data. As long as the ERP system and the MES system both comply with these standards, they speak the same language. The benefit: low-cost, quick deployment of a real-time information exchange. [Click to continue] |