How effectively Supply chain Management can be carried out using industrial automation techniques?

Any reference would be appreciable?

 

Supply Chain Management - is a rather broad topic.

Are you referring to bar-coding ???
Industrial Automation are more robust and more open than most "Data Collection" systems.

Or are you referring to EDI functionality ??
Nope - most control companies don't have a clue about application interoperability.
Most businesses don't work on a common object model.

Are you referring to Sequencing / Process Optimization...
XML is coming on strong in both IA and at the supply chain.
Message queuing - should be ready in the upcoming year.

William F. Hullsiek

 

See _eBusiness in Manufacturing: Putting the Internet to Work in the Industrial Enterprise_ by Shari Worthington and Walt Boyes, ISA Press, 2002,
ISBN 1-55617-758-5, available from ISA Press "http://www.isa.org":http://www.isa.org or fromAmazon or other fine online bookstores.

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Please define EDI functionality. Are you using it in the context of translation between legacy systems? I have heard it used several times and
different companies seem to use the term in different ways .......

Chuck Miller
GE Industrial Systems, NA
Energy & Power Market Development
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