Overview

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Overview of Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center
• Technology Overview
• Architecture Overview
• Manufacturing Operations Center Instances

Overview of Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center

Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center (MOC) is a prebuilt, flexible, and extensible solution that improves your plant performance by collecting data from disparate plant floor systems, contextualizing them with business context, and provides real-time intelligence on plant floor operations. Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center is the foundation for continuous improvement. Key components of this application include:

• A data model based on ISA-95 industry standard and extensible attribute framework.

• Pre-built extensible adapters for Oracle EBS.

• A robust contextualization rules engine to convert raw shop floor data into meaningful business information.

• Pre-built key performance indicators and analytics, delivered in Oracle’s industry leading, easy to configure and extend Business Intelligence (BI) technology.

• Ability to monitor production performance in real time.

Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center provides new capabilities to drive sustainability initiatives. Sustainability Aspect is a generic name used for continuous inputs consumed by companies to be able to operate and create goods or services. Common examples of sustainability aspects are electricity, gas, oil, water, helium etc.

The Sustainability Sensor Data Management system of Oracle MOC helps you meet the legislative requirements and social responsibilities to go green and accelerate sustainability improvements of companies focusing on manufacturing, innovation, or services, and enables you to:

• Monitor and analyze energy consumption, energy cost, and carbon emissions with dashboards and built-in key performance indicators (KPIs), leveraged by Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) technology.

• Integrate with smart meters, environmental management systems.

• Build automation systems and collect energy consumption and emissions data.

• Identify specific opportunities for improving energy efficiency and reduction in carbon emissions.

• Normalize and correlate energy consumption to operating conditions and production variables, and enable energy-aware manufacturing.

• Leverage as a certifiable data repository for energy usage reporting based on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework and Green House Gas (GHG) protocol.

Technology Overview

Manufacturing Operations Center uses the following Oracle technologies:

• Oracle Data Warehouse Builder (OWB)

• Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)

• Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Foundation

Architecture Overview

The following diagram provides an overview of Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center's architecture:

The diagram describes the following:

Data Model

Oracle MOC data model complies with ISA-95 standards and is optimized for intelligence and integration. ISA-95 is a standard for Enterprises to control system integration that includes batch, continuous, and discrete industries. Managed by ISA (Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society), ISA-95 defines terminology, functional requirements, and borrows or is based on PRM (Purdue Reference Model) for manufacturing. The Oracle MOC Data model is open and scalable for capturing user specific attributes and building custom hierarchies, etc. and lets you incorporate data collection for energy consumption, energy costs, emissions of multiple sustainability aspects (i.e. electricity, gas etc.). The data model’s granularity accommodates measurement frequencies collected down to a minute's level in order to perform accurate analysis and energy contextualization.

Extensibility

• Pluggable business rules (OWB mappings)

• Ad-hoc dashboards and reports with OBIEE

Connectivity

Oracle MOC supports heterogeneous systems including device data and provides wide range of options for collecting shop floor data, directly from Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Meters, Sensors and Distributed Control Systems (DCSs). Oracle MOC leverages Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB), the data warehousing tool to extract and process data. A concurrent program is used to process meter readings for sustainability aspect consumptions.

Prepackaging

EBS Adapters: Oracle MOC is prepackaged with an EBS adapter for Release11i10.

KPIs and Dashboards: Oracle MOC is prepackaged with more than sixty metrics and role-based dashboards and reports.

Manufacturing Operations Center Instances

Typically, Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center (MOC) is installed locally at a plant location. There can be single or multiple plant installations. It can be installed on a server for a single plant or for multiple plants that are connected. A company may have several instances of Oracle MOC installed.

Consider the following example of a global manufacturing company with plants at two locations, in the U.S. and in India, and the U.S. has two different plant locations:

In this example, following options are available for installing MOC instances:

Option 1

• MOC Instance 01 - USA - SFO

• MOC Instance 02 - USA - Denver

• MOC Instance 03 - India

With this option, plants are not grouped together and an instance of MOC is installed at each plant and organized at the plant level.

Option 2

• MOC Instance 01 - USA

• MOC Instance 02 - India

With this option, plants are grouped by country. The plants at SFO and Denver have been grouped together into a single instance called USA.

Option 3

• MOC Instance 01 - USA & India

This option is a corporate installation for which all three of the individual plants are grouped into one instance called USA & India.