Wonderware gains SAP certification

More news coming out of the ARC Forum here in Orlando, Fla., as Wonderware said today it garnered “Powered by SAP NetWeaver” certification status.
The Invensys business unit gained the certification for its Business Package for Process Performance Analysis 60.1 integrated with SAP NetWeaver Portal and the other is the combination of the SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure-based Content Package for Order Processing 30.1 integrated with SAP ECC 5.0 and Wonderware Enterprise Integrator 2.0.
This certification, officials said, is also part of the SAP certification program for ISA-95-based manufacturing interoperability.
“NetWeaver is a standard interface. People are embracing standards,” said Mark Davidson, vice president of global marketing at Invensys-Wonderware.
When it all comes down to it, these packages link plant-floor information with manufacturing intelligence dashboards at the SAP ERP level. This is another move to truly capture information from the board room all the way down to the plant floor.
The package should also be interoperable with existing systems, Davidson said.
In an environment where different plants have different systems, this should be able to allow manufacturers to compare apples to apples.
“This is one way to aggregate information and being able to do a comparison from plant to plant,” Davidson said.