Oracle takes on the plant floor

摘要

There is more to Oracle Corp.'s application strategy than big acquisitions, its future Fusion applications, and its stack of Fusion middleware. For manufacturers, that something extra is production execution. Oracle has offered higher-level production planning and resource management functionality for many years - even addressing flow manufacturing - but with Release 12 of its ERP suite, it takes square aim at manufacturing execution system (MES) capabilities. This is no mere tweaking of a shop-floor control module, says Manish Modi, VP of manufacturing and product life-cycle management (PLM) development at Oracle, but full MES applications for either process or discrete industries.