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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 5:35:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | New Siemens software libraries enable standards-based connectivity with ERP systems; goal of new organization is to extend SIMATIC IT into manufacturing intelligence and PLM. |
| Keywords: | Siemens, MES, SIMATIC IT, manufacturing intelligence, PLM, cross-industry library, B2MML, ISA-95 |
Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) took a substantial step toward closing the gap between the shop floor and the top floor by recently announcing two new library templates that tap into industry standards to more closely align the company's SIMATIC IT MES product with ERP applications. Word of the two new libraries follows the formation of a new Siemens A&D organization whose mission is to extend SIMATIC IT beyond MES and into manufacturing intelligence as well as PLM, company officials told Managing Automation in an interview late last year. Siemens' two new Cross-Industry Libraries (CILs) comprise a generic version, dubbed CIL ERP, which can be used with almost any brand of ERP, and the CIL-E2S, which is for legacy SAP installations. [Click to continue] |
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