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Most shop-floor data management systems today are relational database management systems (RDBMS) that can quickly and efficiently process high-volume transactional data, and many systems also use the Structured Query Language
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(SQL). Some shop data management systems also are sup- porting the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), which make it easier for machine tools and software to communicate data and is central to the data communications protocol pushed by the MTConnect Institute (McLean, VA).
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With its latest update, Exact Software North America LLC (Minneapolis) has added a revamped application program- ming interface (API) to its JobBoss Ver- sion 11.7 shop-floor data management software that includes customer-driven enhancements targeting custom build- to-order job shops. In the Version 11.7 released to beta testing in September, the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software allows customers to deploy one of two SQL versions, Microsoft SQL Express or full Microsoft SQL Server. “Probably 90% of our customers today self-identify as a job shop,” David Lechleitner, pre-sales principal, Exact North America. “We’ve seen a shift though in recent years, where more companies are entering into long-term contracts with some of their customers, but they would still identify what they do as custom make-to-order.”
The upgraded API and the new XML functionality help JobBoss communicate with other software, Lechleitner said. “We’re upgrading our API enabling other applications, be it design pack- ages like SolidWorks or nesting software for fabricators, to have a better founda- tion by which they can communicate to us in real time. “What Web services allow us to do is leverage a different level of infrastruc- ture—less moving parts, more seam- less communication back-and-forth, using really the same technology that MTConnect is using, which is that XML programming language.”
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