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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 4:14:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Deal is aimed at helping manufacturers to more effectively build role-based manufacturing intelligence dashboards that provide real-time access to event data and KPIs from the shop floor and can be correlated with enterprise applications.
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SAP AG's adaptive manufacturing strategy got a big boost today when the enterprise application giant announced it will acquire Lighthammer Software Development Corp., a small-but-growing maker of manufacturing intelligence software, for an undisclosed amount. The deal, expected to be completed early next month, will fold Lighthammer into the SAP Manufacturing Industry Solutions Group, but keeps the Lighthammer management team -- including co-founders Russell Fadel and Rick Bullotta -- and the entire 60-person workforce intact in its Exton, PA. headquarters, just a few towns away from the SAP America's headquarters. For industry observers who have been watching the SAP/Lighthammer partnership unfold over the last several months, the acquisition comes as no surprise. The two companies have been hammering out ISA-S95 interoperability issues between shop floor operations and enterprise applications. The aim: to enable the creation of role-based manufacturing intelligence dashboards that provide real-time access to data that correlates events and KPIs from shop floor systems with enterprise applications. [Click to continue] |
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