MMS: A Communication Language for Manufacturing

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.

• Communication Standards
• Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)
• Data Exchange
• Datenaustausch
• Kommunikationsstandards
• OSI
• Open System Environments
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