SAP and Siemens Automation and Drives are announcing their intent for a preferred strategic partnership to deliver an integrated solution that will help companies eliminate the disconnect of mission-critical information between Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and business software solutions. The intention of the cooperation is to address some of the major concerns that production managers of manufacturing companies are facing today such as the lack of integration of MES on the shop floor with business software solutions, increased IT spending, and the need for production personnel to measure, monitor or control their key performance indicators on demand. The joint offering will be a significant step in helping manufacturing companies address these everyday issues, while also lowering total-cost-of-ownership (TCO), and easing implementation, maintenance and performance management. To support integration in order to enable and manage change even more efficiently, Siemens intends to get their interfaces for SAP NetWeaver’s Enterprise Portal and Exchange Infrastructure Content certified. The intended solution will thus be powered by NetWeaver, and will leverage the ISA-95 industry standards to integrate mySAP ERP with Simatic IT, the Siemens MES products, for manufacturing enterprise interoperability.
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