1. 1999-04-061 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. IFS eConnect - OPC The interplay between ERP-systems and automation systems

2. 1999-04-062 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Anders Lif, IFS R&D

3. 1999-04-063 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Set your business free... IFS Applications

4. 1999-04-064 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. IFS eConnect - OPC The interplay between ERP-systems and automation systems

5. 1999-04-065 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Administrative business systems Automation systems High walls Traditional system architecture

6. 1999-04-066 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. …creates costs for information …obstructs development Isolated information islands

7. 1999-04-067 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Everyday Automation 70’s and 80’s: Automation of the manufacturing process 80’s and 90’s: Automation of the administrative processes 2000 - the next decade: Automation of the borderland between the administrative and the manufacture process control systems

8. 1999-04-068 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Great needs, big question marks Do you have the possibility to connect to our ERP-systems? Do you have the possibility to interact with our automation equipment ?

9. 1999-04-069 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. ERP-system Production Vision for the 21 century Data flow in real time creates new values Cust. Order Inventory Production Alarm, Incident Maintenance Replanning Production data Analysis, Optim

10. 1999-04-0610 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. TCP/IP LAN Server Client Production What does the ERP system look like?

11. 1999-04-0611 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Production What does the ERP system look like? Plant Design Maintenance Payroll TAK/OEE Documents Manufacturing Personnel Procurement Finance Inventory

12. 1999-04-0612 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Any Field Bus Any Industrial Main Bus TCP/IP LAN Server Client ERP-system What does the automation side look like?

13. 1999-04-0613 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Problems with the interaction Automation side: Difficulties to communicate between systems from different vendors Fear to let the IT-people into the production Negative experiences Administrative side: Standardized interfaces are hard to find Square toolbox in the form of PL/SQL, etc The world of automation is so different Can’t see what data that could be used

14. 1999-04-0614 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. IFS eConnect New technological platform... In three major steps: Windows NT has become the platform for “all” SCADA systems OPC - OLE for Process Control has brought COM/DCOM to the automation side IFS eConnect instead of PL/SQL makes it easier to connect new clients and external sources as well as data capture

15. 1999-04-0615 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. TCP/IP LAN Server Client TCP/IP LAN Client NT based SCADA stations In client - server structure

16. 1999-04-0616 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. OPC - Standardized communication

17. 1999-04-0617 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. MTS COM DCOM IFS eConnect IFS Applications Business components WWW Production Centura client GSM Office 97 / 2000 Mobile clients CE, WAP, etc. RegTime Adm. systems

18. 1999-04-0618 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. SCADA Process IFS eConnect / OPC Client IFS Applications Business components Centura client MTS OPC OLE for Process Control Mirror of the LU EquipmentObjectMeas XML-file specific for meas.val.reg. MTS (Microsoft Transaction Server) - used as platform for IFS Connect Adapter - works as a interpreter of the external partners native protocol (way to communicate) COM/DCOM Wrapper - mirror of the business components of IFS Applications XML-file - A file that is used as a messenger between the adapter and the COM-wrapper

19. 1999-04-0619 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Any Industrial Main Bus Any Field Bus TCP/IP LAN Server Client - Client- Server OPC Server as gateway The SCADA acts as gateway for IFS An OPC client read/write as any SCADA client

20. 1999-04-0620 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. ERP- and Automation systems Love story of the century...

21. 1999-04-0621 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. A plant can be described as a graphical tree structure…

22. 1999-04-0622 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. …but also as a process view

23. 1999-04-0623 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. The two worlds melt together Operational personal get access to ERP data The operator gets access to maintenance data An alarm in the automation system creates a work order in the maintenance system. Possibility to perform maintenance based on real operational time intervals opens up Continuous data flow between production and ERP-system to optimize operation, production, material and personal Customer order, material and operational status creates an optimized scheduling of production - which is transferred to the production control systems

24. 1999-04-0624 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Interaction - Communication An alarm in the SCADA... … is registered via OPC into the ERP-system

25. 1999-04-0625 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. A Work Order is created...

26. 1999-04-0626 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. … and printed

27. 1999-04-0627 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. The operator has access to the WO info A mouse click on the Info-button... …opens a navigator for maintenance data

28. 1999-04-0628 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. The operator can see that the reparation is started... …and when the work is supposed to be finished

29. 1999-04-0629 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Document management Process design Instrumentation design Plant layout- & Piping design Electrical design Plant Navigator Personal Enterprise Connect - Import/Export MS Excel, OPC, CE, WAP, etc Equipment PM/WO Purchase/Inventory Time/Human Resource IFS Finance IFS Production IFS Distribution Actual situation As decided As planned Da t a base Event Server OEE WO reporting Shop floor reporting ProjectBusiness Performance IFS Enterprise Asset Management ™

30. 1999-04-0630 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. The interaction is bidirectional real time data via OPC, ERP data via Web...