More About the PERA Enterprise Integration Web Site

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MISSION STATEMENT:

To provide a reference site for PERA materials, and a forum for sharing information on recent developments and products in Enterprise Master Planning and Systems Integration.

Our objectives in establishing this web site include the following:

• Provide educational and reference material on PERA.
• Demonstrate how PERA has been applied in many industries.
• Provide an overview of Master Planning and Enterprise Integration standards and technology.
• Demonstrate PERA by using it to structure an index of Enterprise Integration products.
• Provide a forum for discussion of Enterprise Integration topics.

Intended Audience

This site is meant for Computer and Telecommunications Network Professionals, Control Engineers, Enterprise Management, and Project Management who are responsible for design of Industrial and Corporate Control and Communication Systems. The Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture ( PERA ) provides a valuable tool for the design of such Enterprise Systems.

While this website focusses on the Control and Information Systems component of PERA, PERA is also relevant to all other management and engineering groups since it relates all three components of an enterprise:

• People
• Control and Information Systems
• Production Facilities

Thus, the PERA concepts described on this site can equally well be used by Process Engineers to understand how their facilities interface with Control and Information Systems, or by Plant Management to define interfaces between People, Information Systems and Production Facilities.

 

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