FEW QUESTIONS REGARDING SAP MII

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I have the following questions regarding SAP MII

1.       Is SAP MII capable of integration of its own? Is there specific set of adapter from SAP MII?

2.       Can it take real time load of shop floor events?

3.       What are the monitoring capabilities if no SAP PI is involved?

4.       Mostly factories are not going to be in LAN so we are also looking for the integration capabilities of SAP MII on WAN or VPN?

5.       Do we have any case-study for with or without SAP PI in this scenario?

Could any one kindly answer theses precisely??Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Praveen

[alper_somuncu]

Hi Praveen,

1- 

2- Yes, definitely.

3- Please have a look at SAP MII Monitoring Services document: http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/download/attachments/15603/SAP%20MII%20Monitoring.pdf?version=1&modific...

4- Please have a look at  SAP MII Enterprise Architecture section of the following "SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence 12.X Best Practice Guide" document:

5- While some of the customers prefer SAP PI + MII integration for advanced monitoring and centralization purposes for more than a few assets, I would say that the scenarios without SAP PI are a bit more smooth (from MII standpoint of view) and obviously requires less build and maintenance effort. However, it all depends on your needs. If you have a large landscape with a lot of different SAP ERP - SAP MII integrations you may consider having a PI between them. More information on:

BR,

Alper Somuncu

[Former Member]

Hi Praveen,

For 1 question?

Yes its possible, MII can be integrate with another MII system.

Method 1. Suppose you want implement MII in two plants, then install MII in two place and make one overall Backend DB (i.e. MSSQL or MaxDB, Sybase etc.,) for both of it. Through Data services, you can connect Database.

Method 2. You can connect one to another MII with Virtual server Configuration. For more information go through below link

SAP Library - SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence

For 2 Question:

MII is the one which bring real time data from shop floor with number of additional features. SAP MII has a feature Data Services which allow to connect any third party system to fetch data.

A connector can be thought of as the programmatic interface to a back-end data source such as a plant historian, an HMI or SCADA system, an I/O device, an MES or ERP system, or a relational database.  The connectors included in your system will vary, but fall into one of the following

Categories:

Tag - Used to access historian, human-machine interface (HMI, SCADA, and I/O systems)

SQL - Used to access relational data in a wide range of database sources

Alarm - Used to access alarm/event management systems (HMI, building automation, network management, etc.)

XML - Used to access static or dynamic XML content (typical interface to ERP and related systems)

Aggregate - used to take data from multiple queries and combine them into a single document.

OLAP - used to query data from data warehouse, or cubed data, using MDX query syntax

SAP MII Business Logic Services - used to run an SAP MII Business Logic Services query and return the results to an SAP MII visual component.

For 3 Question: go through link

http://scn.sap.com/thread/1673540

Regards,

Praveen Reddy