Companies are constantly pressured to anticipate changes and anomalies within and outside the production process faster and better. A company's speed and flexibility in addressing this issue largely determines its competitiveness.
Adaptive Manufacturing refers to the ability of factories to optimally organize their production process whilst dynamically addressing anomalies in the process. Adaptive Manufacturing allows every company to link its production process with business in a flexible way, thus enjoying all the advantages this approach has to offer.
Today, companies face the challenge of having to integrate and synchronize production processes with business strategies and supply chain processes. In order to achieve this, it is important to always have access to up-to-date information on resource allocation, such as human resources, machinery and raw materials.
The vertical integration of ERP systems with production execution systems (MES, SCADA, etc.) plays an important role in this process. By linking these systems, information on the production process is made available faster and comprehensively. This offers the opportunity to adapt plannings and to respond to changes based on the latest data.
Vertical Integration
Uphantis considers vertical integration with the production process as the next main integration phase. In the past few years, companies invested in ERP implementations and horizontal integration. Today, however, there is an increased need for the exchange of real-time information with the production units. This vertical integration will ultimately result in more reliable planning and a better overview of the progress made by production, so as to address anomalies. Moreover, vertical integration allows for more accurate data collection for e.g. OEE, Lean or Six Sigma reports.
The integration of ERP with the production units means an exchange of data with e.g. MES, SCADA and LIMS systems. Uphantis Logistics Integration consultants have a thorough knowledge of the production process, of how this can be represented in the various systems and of how the integration should be organized.
Our services for production focus on the implementation of the following products:
- mySAP ERP and R/3
- Production Planning (PP)
- Production Planning Process Industries (PP-PI) with Process Control System interface (PI-PCS)
- Quality Management (QM)
- Integration solutions
- Exchange Infrastructure (XI)
- webMethods
- S95 and B2MML standard
- xApps
- Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (xMII)