SAP xMII - xApp™ for Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence

Konitech is the official Services Partner of SAP Brazil for industrial solutions implementation and the first company in Latin America certified and qualified in the innovative SAP tool denominatedManufacturing Integration and Intelligence (xMII). Konitech is able to offer its services world widely.

SAP xMII Administration Page

SAP xMII is the best solution available in the market for development of Operational Excellence Applications and can be used to leverage some important strategic innitiaves in the company, such as:

- Lean Manufacturing;

- Real Time Performance Management;

- Six Sigma;

- Overall Equipment Effectiveness- OEE;

- P2SC - Plant to Supply Chain Integration;

This platform allows Konitech's consultants and application engineers to develop and deploy customized solutions without the need of creating from scratch.

This work methodology, using an advanced systems integration framework, allows the reduction of implementation costs, reducing as well the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the final solutions delivered to our customers.

SAP MII allows a broad integration of all company systems through Composite Applications creation. This approach gives agility in the integration of new businesses processes and in the existent processes modification and optimization, eliminating the existence of customized interfaces with difficult maintenance and high TCO.

The suite of tools supplied by SAP MII makes possible to obtain the maximum return of applications already existent in the company, without the need to create a new system and/or unnecessarily duplicate data in intermediate layers. This is the main reason of our projects implementation haste, based on the use of the XML standard format for different legacy systems data normalization on top of a services oriented architecture (SOA).

Architecture of SAP MII - Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence

Architecture of MII in SAP Netweaver platform for plant-to-business (P2B) integration

[MII – SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence / MES – Manufacturing Execution
Systems, EMI – Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence, BW – Business Warehouse (from SAP) /
SFAC – Shop Floor Automation & Control, OPC – OLE for Process Control]

History:

SAP MII was originally developed by the American company Lighthammer Software Development Corporation, with the name of CMS – Collaborative Manufacturing Suite.

CMS – Collaborative Manufacturing Suite – was so innovative at it's time that allowed Lighthammer to have a consistent and profitable annual growth since 2000. The technology, totally based on SOA, made it possible for Lighthammer to deliver a diversified tool for construction of Composite Applications for over 180 clients and 500 installations,all over the world. Among all those worldwide customers, Dow Corning, Whirlpool, Celanese and others, use the xMII platform for the development of applications targeted to Lean Manufacturing, 6 Sigma, Operational Excellence, Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and Real Time Performance Management (RTPM).

With SAP's Lighthammer acquisition in June of 2005, and its incorporation to the world structure of the German company, the CMS, that already had the certification "Powered by Netweaver" was also incorporated to the SAP solutions portfolio as a xApp™ of the Netweaver platform.

Since 2004, Konitech's professionals are certified by Lighthammer in the United States and capable to deliver solutions using MII which were recognized and awarded in Brazil and in the rest of the world.