News and Views in Enterprise Integration

Recent PERA and Enterprise Engineering News

• NASA Adopts STEP (ISO 10303) for Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing.

• IMS announces major productivity improvement with biological automation of Honda manufacturing line.

• Trade Exchanges will be scrutinized by Anti-trust Regulators.

• The ISA has issued "Models and Terminology" the first in their S95 series of standards for communication between plant control and "MIS" databases

• The IFIP-IFAC Task Force submitted its GERAM definition to ISO for inclusion in their standard WD15704 "Requirements for enterprise-reference architectures and methodologies.

• Recently, Consolidation in the Control and Information Systems Industry has been accelerating, becoming an important factor in enterprise planning.

News Services

• TechRepublic provides a summary of ERP Industry News on their website as well as news bulletins on SAP, Oracle, Baan, PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards.

• ManufacturingNews.com provides updates on manufacturing issues including eComerce, B2B, and web exchanges.

• ISA includes Control and Instrumentation News on their ISA InTech website.

Last updated November 6, 2000 by Gary Rathwell © reserved

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