Within CIME environments, one continually comes across a multitude of different working practices, network devices, information systems and manufacturing technologies. This heterogeneous environment extends to individual enterprises and can have profound effects on the efficiency and effectiveness of an organisation, and often results in symptoms such as: long product lead times, poor visibility of the product and process status, high product inventory and work-in progress, low data integrity, etc., as well as incurring excessive infrastructure costs. Having to select an appropriate information system to help achieve the business objectives of anyone manufacturing enterprise can be an awesome task. During the 1980s, vendor-independent communications such as MAP (Manu facturing Automation Protocol) and CNMA (Communications Network for Manufacturing Applications) brought standard, open communications to computer controlled industrial devices, but this alone was not enough to satisfy the more demanding requirements of creating and maintaining manufacturing applications. In order to create manufacturing solutions that effectively utilise Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) it is necessary to look beyond the standard communications protocols to how and why applications are developed.
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XII, 207 p. 11 illus.
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978-3-642-79637-1 (9783642796371)
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10.1007/978-3-642-79637-1
Schweitzer Klassifikation
1 Introduction.- 1.1 Origin of the project.- 1.2 History and evolution of the project.- 1.3. Who should read this book.- 1.4. Organisation of this book.- 1.5. How to read this book.- 1.6. Acknowledgements.- 2 The Problem of Integration in Manufacturing Applications.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Automation, communication and integration.- 2.3 Problems integrating applications in manufacturing.- 2.4 Partial solutions to the integration problem.- 2.5 The notion of application integration infrastructure.- 2.6 The CIMOSA approach to integration.- 2.7 Requirements for an information integration infrastructure.- 2.8 Summary.- 3 Architecture Overview.- 3.1 The CIME Computing Environment (CCE).- 3.2. The CCE-CNMA architecture.- 3.3 The components of the CCE-CNMA architecture.- 3.4 The CNMA communication architecture.- 3.5 Summary.- 4 Communication Services.- 4.1 Transport services.- 4.2 Transmission media.- 4.3 LAN access methods.- 4.4 LAN interconnection.- 4.5. Summary.- 5. Distribution Services.- 5.1. The client/server model.- 5.2. The producer/consumer model.- 5.3. OSI layers 5 to 7.- 5.4. Distributed computing: DCE and DDE.- 5.5. Object oriented technology: CORBA and OLE.- 5.6. Summary.- 6. Application Services.- 6.1. File access services.- 6.2. Messaging (electronic mail).- 6.3. Directory access services.- 6.4. Database access services.- 6.5. Transaction processing.- 6.6. Device access services.- 6.7. Fieldbus networks.- 6.8. Summary.- 7. Migration Tools.- 7.1. Introduction.- 7.2. Main features of the NIK.- 7.3. A Network Integrator at Work.- 7.4. Design of the Network Integrator.- 7.5. Summary.- 8. Network Management.- 8.1. Introduction.- 8.2. The Network Management Model.- 8.3. Architecture of the CNMA Network Manager Platform.- 8.4. Network Management Application Services.- 8.5. Benefits of using Network Management.- 8.6. Summary.- 9. The CIME Computing Environment (CCE).- 9.1. Overview of CCE.- 9.2. The CCE object model.- 9.3. CCE distribution mechanisms.- 9.4. Properties of CCE.- 9.5. CCE Execution environments.- 9.6. CCE services and Application Program Interfaces (APIs).- 9.7. Tools for CCE.- 9.8. CCE administration.- 9.9. Example: the Aérospatiale pilot.- 9.10. Summary.- 10. Relationships with Other Initiatives.- 10.1 Introduction.- 10.2. ESPRIT CIMOSA.- 10.3. ESPRIT COMANDOS.- 10.4. ESPRIT Delta-4.- 10.5. ESPRIT TT-CNMA and IT-CIM.- 10.6. ESPRIT FICIM.- 10.7. MAP.- 10.8. FAIS.- 10.9. Summary.- 11. Conclusions.- 11.1. The problems experienced by manufacturing enterprises.- 11.2. The problems with developing distributed manufacturing applications.- 11.3. So how can CCE-CNMA help to solve these problems?.- 11.4. Benefits of the CCE-CNMA technology.- 11.5. Industrial Achievements.- 11.6. So what of the future?.
