Streamlining the Information Lifecycle in Process and Discrete Manufacturing with XML

Throughout both Process and Discrete Manufacturing, the information lifecycle involves many uses steps, renditions, and interactions. These complex processes have made data interoperability an elusive goal. As XML gains increasing acceptability within technical and industry standards, enabling technology, such as xfy from JustSystems, is now available to greater unify large information process flows within a company. In this presentation, JustSystems will discuss and show how its XML Federation framework provides solutions for two challenges faced by many in the Manufacturing sector: • Process Recipe Creation • Interactive Electronic Technical Document Creation 1) Process Recipes In regulated process manufacturing industries, such as pharmaceuticals, biotech, and food processing, the finished goods are the result of a long and complex process of formula refinement. Until recently, there was no standard way for scientists to collaborate electronically with confidence or to transfer information to regulatory bodies and manufacturing staff in a standard way. With xfy Recipe Editor – developed by JustSystems — process manufacturers can now enable scientists to more rapidly author recipes, understand and follow a quality-assurance process, and preserve all aspects of development and product evolution. A successful process recipe solution includes the ability to: • Rapidly create, edit, visualize, reuse data in experiments and recipes. • Easily transfer information (i.e. between Design and Production). • Comply with regulatory submissions. • Accelerate time-to-market. • Support Quality by Design (QbD) approach. • Support ANSI/ISA-S88 & BatchML. • Provide a S88-compliant visual flowchart editor. • Save as content as BatchML XML for use with MES, PLM systems. • Create and reuse elements at any level. 2) Interactive Electronic Technical Documents With the growing number of XML schemas or vocabularies to support different types of business data, organizations have a difficult time aggregating and sharing content. However, xfy can work with any of these to combine them into a single document. Each time the document is accessed, the data within can be either static or dynamic via “live” queries to its source. This means that although the look and feel is in a “Document” sense, it can also perform as an information “Application” . The Interactive Electrical Technical Documents can serve as reference information while also having application functionality via user input resulting in correct information values returned. A successful interactive electronic technical document solution includes the ability to: • Create XML document content. • Federate structured content and relational data (i.e. parts lists, dispatch info, equipment history). • Present interactive presentation to technician. • Provide multiple views onto same content (training, service, marketing).