United Manufacturing Database Support

Plant Applications continues support for the Unified Manufacturing Database (UMDB) that combines a Plant Applications data model with the S95 data model employed by the SOA platform.

The model offers a single platform to implement holistic, operational performance-management solutions for batch, discrete, and mixed environments using equipment, product, and people centric models. It provides the following benefits:

• Extension by the new MESCore Service provider of the SOA data model to enable creation of a Unified Manufacturing Database.
• Data entry through the convenient Workflow Client interface. A separate license for Workflow is required to use workflows.
• Data methods to design custom displays and forms to gather, monitor, and analyze plant operations data. Using methods with Workflow requires a license.