Having announced its first set of manufacturing applications a couple of weeks back (CI No 1,282), Oracle Corp has taken its computer-integrated manufacturing strategy a step further with plans to enable the Oracle database to be used as a common foundation for integrating applications, databases, and information in an enterprise-wide integrated manufacturing system encompassing front office, engineering, shop floor, operations and management information. In what is clearly intended to answer IBM’s efforts, announced yesterday, to create its own enterprise-wide schema`ffr integrated manufacturing, Oracle came up with its own set of manufacturing partners and a strategy to establish specialist sales and support teams for five markets – high-technology, aerospace and defence, discrete heavy manufacturing, automotive, and process manufacturing. Its partners include Rockwell International’s Allen-Bradley, Cincinatti Milacron, Deer Tech Services, Intergraph Corp, and Litton Industries.
