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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:00:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | The automation vendor delivers its first SOA-based workflow product, said to allow manufacturers greater flexibility in adjusting automation-based processes.
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| Keywords: | BPM, business process management |
Automation vendor GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms this week unwrapped the first element of its evolving service-oriented architecture for production processes. The Proficy Workflow product is best described as an industrialized version of business process management (BPM). The Workflow system, which defines and digitizes logical execution steps in a process to trigger a workflow, can accommodate both manual and automatic interactions. It graphically defines processes ranging from executing the download of a recipe to having an operator conduct a visual inspection and entering data into the system manually. GE Fanuc officials said the system provides an easy-to-use graphical representation of a production process at all levels. For example, it can outline alarm analysis and action at the control layer, digitize work instruction and task execution at the batch layer, outline production management and corrective action at the MES layer, and even reach up into ERP workflows, the company said. [Click to continue] |
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