IFS e Connect OPC The interplay between ERPsystems

Anders Lif, IFS R&D 2 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights

Set your business free. . . IFS Applications 3 1999 -04 -06 © 1999

IFS e. Connect - OPC The interplay between ERP-systems and automation systems 4 1999

Traditional system architecture Administrative business systems 5 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB.

Isolated information islands …creates costs for information …obstructs development 6 1999 -04 -06 ©

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 7 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved.

Great needs, big question marks Do you have the possibility to interact with our automation equipment ? 8 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Do you have the possibility to connect to our ERP-systems?

Vision for the 21 century Data flow in real time creates new values ERP-system Cust. Order Inventory Production Replanning Maintenance Alarm, Incident Production 9 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Analysis, Optim Production data

What does the ERP system look like? Client TCP/IP LAN Client Production 10 1999

What does the ERP system look like? Payroll Plant Design Procurement Finance Maintenance Manufacturing Documents TAK/OEE Personnel Production 11 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Inventory

What does the automation side look like? ERP-system Client TCP/IP LAN Server Any Industrial

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 13 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved.

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 e. Connect 14 • IFS e. Connect instead of PL/SQL makes it easier to connect new clients and external sources as well as data capture 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved.

NT based SCADA stations In client - server structure Server Client TCP/IP LAN 15

OPC - Standardized communication 16 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights

IFS e. Connect Centura client Production Office 97 / 2000 WWW GSM DCOM MTS Adm. systems Reg. Time 17 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. IFS Applications Business components Mobile clients CE, WAP, etc.

IFS e. Connect / OPC Client • MTS (Microsoft Transaction Server) used as platform for IFS Connect Process • Adapter - works as a interpreter of the external partners native protocol (way to communicate) Centura client • 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 MTS SCADA OPC OLE for Process Control 18 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. XML-file specific for meas. val. reg. Mirror of the LU Equipment. Object. Meas IFS Applications Business components

OPC Server as gateway • The SCADA acts as gateway for IFS • An OPC client read/write as any SCADA client - Client - Server Client TCP/IP LAN Any Industrial Main Bus Any Field Bus 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Any Field Bus

ERP- and Automation systems Love story of the century. . . 20 1999 -04

A plant can be described as a graphical tree structure… 21 1999 -04 -06

…but also as a process view 22 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB.

The two worlds melt together 23 • 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 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved.

Interaction - Communication An alarm in the SCADA. . . … is registered via

A Work Order is created. . . 25 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS

… and printed 26 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved.

The operator has access to the WO info A mouse click on the Info-button.

The operator can see that the reparation is started. . . …and when the

IFS Enterprise Asset Management Plant Navigator WO reporting Shop floor reporting Personal Enterprise ™ Event Server OEE Process design Data base IFS Distribution As planned IFS Production As decided IFS Finance Instrumentation design Actual situation Equipment PM/WO Electrical design Purchase/Inventory Plant layout- & Piping design 29 Project 1999 -04 -06 © 1999 IFS AB. All rights reserved. Business Performance Connect - Import/Export Document management Time/Human Resource MS Excel, OPC, CE, WAP, etc