Through a product called XMII, SAP brings together the shop floor controls to integrate directly with R/3. What that means??? remember in the old days that you have to create all sort of ABAP programs to link PLCs, SDCDs, other databases like Access, SQL to SAP? well, now you can connect all of them (or whatever you need to connect) directly to MII which links to SAP R/3 (through IDOCs or BAPIs). A nice feature with MII (Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence) is you can create a cache database where if the connection with SAP R/3 is lost, your manufacturing can keep operating normally. Within this cache, you can have all information required to keep on going such as: production orders required, routings and BOM linked to the production orders, etc.
XMII is web-enabled which facilitated the development of new functionalities.
Find bellow an overview of XMII. This picture was taken from SAP website:
In the next couple of days, time permitting, will be going through some more details about how this technology works. If you have any information to add, please, don't hesitate to send your comments.
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