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MMS: A Communication Language for Manufacturing

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  • © 1995

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  1. ESPRIT Consortium CCE-CNMA

    1. c/o CSC Manufacturing Practice, Guild Centre Offices, Preston, UK

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Part of the book series: Research Reports Esprit (ESPRIT, volume 2)

Part of the book sub series: Project 7096. CCE-CNMA (3286)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    • Lawrence Cox
    Pages 1-7

  3. Rationale and Context

    • Patrick Pleinevaux
    Pages 9-14

  4. Manufacturing Message Specification (MMS)

    • Manfred Gaertner, Patrick Pleinevaux
    Pages 15-26

  5. MMS Core Object Classes

    • Manfred Gaertner
    Pages 27-60

  6. MMS in Real Manufacturing Devices

    • Patrick Pleinevaux, Werner Blumenstock
    Pages 61-70

  7. Use of MMS in a Real Manufacturing Application

    • Manfred Gaertner
    Pages 71-90

  8. MMSI

    • Jean-Pierre Fayolle, Thomas Talanis
    Pages 91-122

  9. A DDE Interface to MMS

    • Artur Lederhofer, Frank Sackmann
    Pages 123-153

  10. Other MMS Objects and Services

    • Patrick Pleinevaux
    Pages 155-159

  11. Conclusion

    • Lawrence Cox
    Pages 161-165

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 167-185
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Today's manufacturing environment is characterised by significant change in the way it is able to respond to its business objectives. Companies now face new challenges to meet customer demands including greater flexibility, a wider range of products, higher quality, improved lead time, whilst maintaining _c.ompetitive prices. The changes manifest in each company will differ but, the trend is towards providing a leaner, more responsive organisation. This is reflected in the need for Information Technology (IT) systems to be more integrated across an enterprise and for the systems to be provided on a distributed basis. At the same time it is imperative that the costs associated with these IT systems and the range of skills required by an enterprise to develop and support such systems should be minimal. One way of achieving this objective is to adopt the use of standards. During recent years there has been a lot of activity to standardise the way that manufacturing devices communicate with each other. Considerable progress has been made, thanks not least to the success of the international effort of stand­ ardisation bodies like ISO, IEEE and IEC, and projects applying standardised protocols like Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP), in the USA, Commun­ ications Network for Manufacturing Applications (CNMA) in Europe and not forgetting Mini-MAP and Fieldbus technology.

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  • c/o CSC Manufacturing Practice, Guild Centre Offices, Preston, UK

    ESPRIT Consortium CCE-CNMA

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