Machine connection Flexible machine integration with SAP MES and SAP PCo
A machine alone does not make a product. And just as the products and their production by the manufacturers are diverse, the existing plant engineering can also be of a completely different nature:
Depending on the industry and location, machine parks are made up of a wide variety of production systems, some of which are interlinked.
Be it for example
- Milling, turning and drilling centers
- Injection molding machines
- Filling machines for liquids and solids
- Packaging machines
- Production machines for batch production
- Painting machines
- Cable drawing machines
- Kilns
- Testing and assembly workstations
- or many more.
Machine connection for efficient data exchange
The principle of the digital factory is based on holistic networking and efficient data exchange. This results in ongoing optimization of planning and operational processes.
For SAP customers, a direct machine connection to the SAP Manufacturing Execution systems (SAP DM and SAP ME/MII) is available: This connection allows you to record the relevant production data of the individual machines in your systems. The machines are connected across all machines and technologies.
The SAP Plant Connectivity (SAP PCo) component also enables the active exchange of process parameters, production programs or setting parameters with the machines.
Machine integration with SAP PCo
SAP PCo connects the physical production systems (control systems) of manufacturing with the business software or the MES systems: To do this, SAP PCo integrates all store floor components such as machines, carts, sensors, inspection systems and others with SAP MES or SAP Digital Manufacturing (SAP DM).
SAP PCo comes with a comprehensive standard range of common protocol modules.
IGZ provides you with pre-configured machine connections as best practices. This saves time and has already been established in a number of reference projects. Many machine types can be used virtually "out-of-the-box".
OPC technologies such as
- OPC Unified Architecture (UA)
- OPC Data Access (DA)
- OPC Historical Data Access (HDA)
- OPC Alarms & Events (A&E)
Further protocol modules:
- TCP/IP | RS232 | RS485
- Websocket technologies
- File | EUROMAP
- OLE DB (e.g. ODBC, MS Excel and MS Access)
- Various databases (SQL server, ODBC, JDBC etc.)
- FTP/ODATA/HTTP/...
- Analog and digital IO adapters
- and many more.
Do you have any questions? Get in touch with us!
Talk to us about your logistics tasks, wishes and expectations. Benefit from our many years of experience in project planning, implementation and the direct SAP connection of warehouse technology and production systems of any type and from any system provider.
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