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Rockwell Refocuses MES Strategy on Six Disciplines

Posted on Thursday, December 01, 2005 12:05:00 AM       Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox                            Digg This Article   Add to Delicious

Abstract:Branded under the FactoryTalk name, the new strategy outlines an integrated suite of applications that is built on top of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that will also allow for easy integration with third-party applications.
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    Rockwell Automation is reinventing its manufacturing execution system in an attempt to move away from the confusing nomenclature of "MES," which means many things to different people.

    Instead, the company will focus on six production disciplines that define what needs to get done in a manner that is logical, less expensive to engineer and truly integrated.

    Branded under Rockwell's existing FactoryTalk name, the new strategy outlines an integrated suite of applications that is built on top of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that will also allow for easy integration with third-party applications.

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