The Catlyst Equipment Service Bus™ is an extendible, standardized service architecture implemented at the equipment level to provide bidirectional, many-to-one connectivity for manufacturing operations management systems to the plant floor. The Equipment Service Bus™ provides a highly flexible abstraction layer between the plant floor and the enterprise, much like an enterprise service bus, that dramatically simplifies integration efforts and increases flexibility.
The Equipment Service Bus™
is comprised of:
- Connectivity solutions to equipment,
- State, data, control, production and consumption models to contextualize information and events, and
- An agent-based service implementation.
Designed to integrate existing equipment and systems with open connectivity to a wide variety of equipment, devices, databases and communications and messaging protocols, the Equipment Service Bus™ leverages reusable software components to decrease development efforts during implementation.