The Challenges of Data Integration

In the healthiest organizations I've seen, they'd actually argue that data integration is less of a challenge once the humans learn to talk to each other. The EDIX 25 standards for e-commerce map really closely to what B2MML looks like for us MES nerds when we think about first generation message based exchange. It's this old adage: You give the same functional specification or sequence of operations to 10 different PLC programmers and you're going to get 10 completely different programs that do exactly the same thing. But the underlying parametric data that you talk about is a function of how they did it, not what they did.