Representative End User Clients
Representative Automation Clients
Representative Software Clients
At ARC's European Industry Forum, on March 2nd, a workshop was held in ccoperation with MESA, about IT/OT convergence and its convergence.
For the paricipants of the workshop the presentation will be distributed under the link in the forum booklet. For participants and others who are interested, the discussion is summarized below:
•Supply chain integration
In relation to manufacturing of goods and materials
Important aspect of competitiveness is to have complex supply chain networks especially across regions End-to-End traceability (across supply chain networks)
•Increasing needs for flexibility, ability, complexity
Supply chain complexity, supply chain volatility, mass customization, smaller batches, complex processes, complex products
Also keep it simple when possible (and use analytics and optimization to damp supply chain volatility)
•Need for data warehouse of manufacturing information (time series data plus events for context) plus OEE, plus quality plus …
Virtual versus distributed: trend in direction of a slingle DW to unload sites and ensure data backup
Opportunities: short term: reporting and historical analytics
Opportunities forward looking: predictive and prescriptive analytics •People factor
Focus or intent can block people to see/hear each other’s statements
Once back to factual, people need to agree on common dictionary, possibly in different languages
•Googling production data
The information is not about objects but patterns. More difficult to find
Historians are not built for searches
•Governance
Aligning IT/business at corporate/stategic and plant/BU-tactiacl levels
Because of agility requirements, make sure the update frequence is sufficent and/or the authority to make decisions at local level is sufficent, and a mechanism for reconciliation with agreed plans exist