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Product and vendor evaluation methodology

Product and vendor evaluation methodology

Software vendor functional scope • There are two major dimensions of choice in software:

Software vendor functional scope • There are two major dimensions of choice in software: 1. Functional scope or breadth and associated architecture issues. 2. Match of functionality to how the plant actually operates and its business needs.

Producer and consumer model for MES

Producer and consumer model for MES

Software selection trends • Software suite evolution • Industry-focused applications • Functionally focused applications

Software selection trends • Software suite evolution • Industry-focused applications • Functionally focused applications • Selection issues

Software suite evolution • The days when a process engineer developed a piece of

Software suite evolution • The days when a process engineer developed a piece of software, using commercial tools, on a desktop platform, are all but over. The special skills required to configure, adapt or modify a piece of software to do something slightly different are no longer within the realm of knowledge of the typical process engineer. • Whereas 10 years ago, a staff manager could study a bit of Basic and write a small program to, for example, transform some data into a locally used unit of measure, the expertise for doing this within XML is no longer as easily gained.

Industry-focused applications

Industry-focused applications

Functionally focused applications

Functionally focused applications

Selection issues

Selection issues

Product landscape

Product landscape

Solution design assumptions • Strategy of vendor-independent design • Strategy of fit-to-package design •

Solution design assumptions • Strategy of vendor-independent design • Strategy of fit-to-package design • Design conflict resolution

Proposed approach

Proposed approach

Terimakasih

Terimakasih