B2M collaboration

Wonderware has announced that it is collaborating on the first customer project implementations that use the latest version of SAP NetWeaver in the ISA S95 XML standard-based, plant-to-business integration environment using the ArchestrA architecture.

Wonderware is working closely with SAP to simplify the integration effort, lower the implementation and support costs, and enable faster manufacturing agility as their mutual customers' business needs evolve.

This collaboration is achieved by using the latest plants-to-business XML standards defined by ISA S95 in combination with open integration architectures, which encompasses Invensys' ArchestrA on the plant side and SAP NetWeaver on the business side.

"Customers have been integrating SAP business solutions and plant execution systems for about a decade in support of driving towards customer demand-driven manufacturing," said Mark Davidson, vice president of Wonderware and ArchestrA global marketing. "The significance of this most recent collaboration with SAP is that both companies have evolved their product and services implementations around the reality that customers need sustainable approaches to integration of real-time plant and business information workflows."