SAP has announced an end-of-life schedule for its core manufacturing applications, SAP ME and SAP MII. Known for their power and flexibility, these applications have long existed deep in the technical stack of complex, multi-site manufacturing operations. The total value of production that has happened on these applications is easily billions, if not trillions, of […]

The Problem: Data Without Context Data without governance is a breeding ground for errors. Wrong inputs lead to wrong decisions, systems don’t talk to each other properly, and finding root causes is incredibly difficult without proper tracking. The solution is not more data, but rather the right context for the data already available. Grounding AI […]

  Organizations across many industries use parts of the ISA-95 standard to improve manufacturing operations and system integration. While the most well-known application of ISA-95 is for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), it’s also applied to production tracking, data standardization, automation, or real-time decision making.    This outlines some key vendors […]

Manufacturing data hubs are gaining traction in the industry as a new solution for unifying, standardizing, and orchestrating plant and operational data. But what is a manufacturing data hub? And how do you identify one?

This article describes how a Manufacturing Data Hub can help operational manufacturing teams break down silos, rapidly develop new solutions, and stack use cases in a way that compounds value.​ In this context, “Operations” refers to everything that happens to coordinate and execute actual production. That is to say, “Operations” means all of “level-3.” This […]

This article explores how a Manufacturing Data Hub makes data-science work in manufacturing more effective, efficient, and enjoyable. In short: High quality data and governance protects your analysis from the classic problem of Garbage In, Garbage Out. The ISA-95 ontology uses semantics designed specifically to represent a manufacturing operation, including its every entity, relationship, and […]

Manufacturing is a domain full of specialized problems, so it naturally follows that the digital landscape of manufacturing is full of specialized software. While novel solutions to hard problems are sure to delight domain experts, solutions architects must view new systems more cautiously. The architect must judge each new system not only by its specific […]

Traditional MES vendors treat digitization as a series of isolated problems. Each use case has a set solution that the manufacturer must fit to their operation. To implement a new use case, you need a new module, perhaps different data structures, and maybe even a new vendor.  Rhize’s Manufacturing Data Hub (MDH) flips this approach […]

Rhize is a real-time, event-driven Manufacturing Data Hub. That’s a lot of adjectives, so let’s break down what that means at a high level. What Rhize is an integration hub to join the data from the business, operation, and process activities in a single standardized model. Rhize is also a backend to build, extend, and […]