xMII and BW

[Former Member]

Hi everyone,

I am looking sth about integration between MII and BW. Our idea is bringing all data from manufacturing systems to our BW enviroment where resides our EDW layer and we would like to use MII as the tool to extract and load in BW.

Any help it will be appreciated.

thank you a lot.

Cesar

[Former Member]

Hi Jeremy,

The data sources would be shop floor systems, which I don't know how their data are managed, how long they are storage, etc.

So we had an idea to bring the required data into our EDW layer.

Our users will view data from the datamart (which can have data from different sources) and we intend to use some BO tools as the front-end.

For example, they would like to make some analysis using shop floor data and strategic data (what-if analysis).

thank you.

Cesar

[jcgood25]

That would be an improper use of the software. The volume of data existing in manufacturing systems, including MES and Process Historians belongs in their respective systems of record. Replicating data into BI just to have it there doesn't make any practical business sense. Using MII to publish daily or shift level summary data into BI would be OK, but we always discourage data replication.

Do you have any real conceptual examples of what you are trying to accomplish?

Regards,

Jeremy