Manufacturing Domain Task Force MfgDTF

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ManufacturingDomain Task Force(MfgDTF)

• A Collaboration of
• Manufacturers and Their Vendors

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MfgDTF Working Groups

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Manufacturing Execution Systems Machine Control
  (MES/MC)
• Manufacturing Common Business Objects (MfgCBO)
• Manufacturing Simulation (in cooperation with the
  Simulation Special Interest Group)
• Product Process Engineering (PPE)

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OMG Process

• Requests for Information (RFI, helps feed
  Roadmap)
• Requests for Proposal (RFP)
• Letter of Intent (LOI)
• Voting Lists
• Initial Final Responses
• Votes
• Task Force (the Voting List)
• Architecture Board Approval
• TC Plenary Vote
• OMG Board of Directors AND
• Requests for Comment

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Collaboration is Key

• Quoting from the forthcoming MfgDTF Brochure
• Ken Blakely, Sr. Vice President and General
  Manager, at MSC.Software Corporation said
• "In representing the National Center of
  Manufacturing Sciences in the OMG, we found a
  unique and valuable collaborative environment.
  In the OMG Manufacturing Domain Task Force,
  vendors and customers work side-by-side to enable
  the development of practical solutions to
  real-world problems based on standardized object
  component technology. The OMG's accommodation of
  existing, useable technology enables us to
  provide our existing products in the integrated
  component environments that our customer is
  seeking. The OMG Architecture also provides a
  framework for offering our new generations of
  distributed, web-enabled products."

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End Users Advantages

• End User Firm that uses software in the course
  of Building Something that is NOT Software
• Participation in Directing and Prioritizing the
  Roadmap of Standards
• Assures that REAL Integration Problems are
  Addressed
• Works with Vendors to Assure that Products Meet
  Their Needs, Today Tomorrow
• Can Participate with Vendors in Defining
  Interfaces

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Vendor Advantages

• Collaborating with the Customer Eliminates Second
  Guessing on What the Market wants.
• Providing Standard Interfaces maximizes
  applicability of Product.
• Providing Standard Interfaces does NOT compromise
  competitive advantage.
• Places and Identifies Vendors at Forefront of
  Distributed Object Technology

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Summary Commencement

• Complete Success in the MfgDTF has been achieved
  only when Software Vendors and their End Users
  Collaborate.
• In a good collaboration, success benefits
  accrue to all involved.
• Bottom Line
• No One Wants to make Standards
• We want to Make Money
• Thats What Were Here To Do Through Standards
• Business Case Studies from Both the Vendor and
  End User Points of View are the focus of the day.