Manufacturing Product Data Management Across the Enterprise to be Unified by GE Digital’s New Proficy Orchestration Hub

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ByCraig Resnick
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GE Digital announced its newest addition to the Proficy Software portfolio, Proficy Orchestration Hub. This new software solution provides out-of-the-box tools to help unify manufacturing product data management Manufacturing Product Data Managementinformation from disparate data systems, transforms and organizes raw business-oriented information into production-ready formats, and orchestrates the information across factory floor systems at either a single site or multiple sites.

Proficy Orchestration Hub helps manufacturers to stay in sync with constant updates to manufacturing product data to help provide higher quality and throughput. It can enable faster time to market with more accurate product data based on unified information mapping data from different systems, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) into Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).

With supply chain issues, more products and/or regulatory standards, production can potentially get out of sync with the latest manufacturing product data, which can result in lower quality, increased waste, and operations headaches. Proficy Orchestration Hub records and allows users to analyze the updates to manufacturing product data at a given plant. It also stores deviations and comments, recorded as variances, to provide visibility into a plant’s adoption of the changes. This helps manufacturers to decrease quality variability due to ad-hoc modifications as well as the non-productive time and manual efforts trying to execute standard production work.

Craig Resnick, ARC Advisory Group, commented, “With most manufacturers at various points in their digital transformation and IT/OT convergence journey, there remains a void to be filled in their ISA-95 data models between the level four enterprise systems, such as PLM, supply chain management, and ERP, and the level three production systems, such as HMI/SCADA, historians, and MES. GE Digital’s Proficy Orchestration Hub fills this void by providing production optimization applications, such as manufacturing product data management that offer a unified, contextualized view of product data and enable seamless connectivity between the applications, truly creating level 3.5 and acting as a critical IT/OT convergence enabler and digital transformation accelerator.”

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