Barendrecht - May 13, 2014 – ICT Automatisering (ICT) announces the launch of a new product for seamless integration of horizontal and vertical shop-floor and business systems enabling a smart manufacturing enterprise.

The development and launch of the product called the Smart Business Connector fits in the total solution and services approach of ICT regarding Smart Manufacturing. Running a Smart factory requires a fully integrated and connected enterprise creating more visibility, rapid decision making and faster response to customer demand changes.

The Smart Business Connector enables manufacturing companies to create a fully connected enterprise from shop-floor to top-floor and its build-in logic and algorithm engine ensures right information structure and application performance. Business and shop-floor systems like ERP, WMS, LIMS, MES and other smart devices such as barcode printers, scanners can be connected in a standard manner and in adherence to industry standards like ISA-95.

The Smart Business Connector comes with a Graphical User Interface for manual data entry and an easy to configure ‘logic engine’ that can support among others a contamination matrix for Cleaning in Place processes. The Smart Business Connector is fully based on the proven Microsoft.NET platform.

Jac Rombouts, Sales Director ICT Automatisering: “The Smart Business Connector has already been adopted in several large MES projects for leading manufacturers, in which it provides the standard communication between the MES application and the ERP (SAP) , WMS and LIMS. The build in Contamination Matrix functionality is being deployed as well. Our customers realised a fast integration of applications with a 30% reduction of Total Cost of Ownership.”

Product information, whitepapers and user cases about the Smart Business Connector can be found on www.smartbusinessconnector.com