NLINK BUILDS-UP THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

	This leader in the Petrochemical Industry operates a world-class facility in the Middle East. The plant where NLINK is deployed was commissioned late 1997 and includes a 650K MTA Ethylene unit, a 450K MTA Polyethylene unit (high density and linear low density); a 350K MTA Ethylene Glycol unit, and all of the necessary office and utility facilities to support it.

The plant is a huge complex where a relatively small number of highly professional and skilled staff operate and maintain a vast amount of equipment. The ability to automate the data collection aspects of the day-to-day running of the plant is key to its financial success.

THE BUSINESS PROBLEM The customer had an unsupported Wireless (RF) Bar Code Scanner-to-SAP interface already in-place that needed to be expanded and enhanced. The customer also wanted to replace their unsupported interface with one that could evolve with their business needs and leverage its use to some of their other business functions. THE NLINK SOLUTION NLINK® provided a rapidly deployable and complete out-of-the-box Automatic Data Collection (ADC) to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. ADC to ERP deployments usually involve connecting some set of wireless data collection devices (such as an RF-based Bar Code Scanner, from companies such as Symbol Technologies and Intermec) to commercial ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle Applications. In this case, the deployment of NLINK allowed the customer to take back control of this part of its IT infrastructure. During customer acceptance testing the business users were trained in how to modify the NLINK configuration. Once deployed in production at the petrochemical plant, the customer was able to make functionality enhancements and to upgrade NLINK to a new major release without any assistance from Junot. Junot’s ability to perform a completely remote NLINK deployment was key to providing the customer with a low cost integration solution despite their overseas location. Junot’s Professional Services group implemented the solution in six man weeks, replacing and enhancing a custom system that had taken 48 man months of on-site development. NLINK’s Rapid Application Integration (RAI) approach clearly provided the best available solution to this customer’s problem. INTEGRATION SUMMARY PURPOSE Project Keywords Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Automatic Data Collection (ADC) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Rapid Application Integration (RAI) INTERFACES Data Exchange Two Systems Interfaces Five Data Formats Two Communications Methods SOFTWARE NLINK Components NLINK Server NLINK SAP CoNNector NLINK ADC CoNNector NLINK Configuration Module (NCM) NLINK Management Module (NMM) HARDWARE NLINK Workstation Windows NT Server 450MHz Pentium III 128MB RAM 4.5GB Disk Intermec, Janus 2020 Bar Code Scanner Intermec, Maxilan 6540 Data Terminal Intermec, 0100 Access Point ENVIRONMENT CoNNectors, eXtenders, the NLINK Server and NLINK Modules are components of a total environment for delivering process integration within and between companies. The NLINK product suite has been independently certified on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista as a pre-requisite for continued inclusion in the Microsoft Certified Partner Program. As you would expect, NLINK operates equally well on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. REQUEST AN NLINK DEMO There`s really only so much information you can absorb by reading about an enterprise software product suite like NLINK. At some point you need to see the software in action and that`s what the NLINK Demo is all about. Click here to register. NLINK PRESENTATION VIDEOS If you are interested in learning more about the NLINK product suite but are not yet ready to schedule an interactive WebEx demo of the NLINK Product Suite but you would like to see some NLINK presentation videos click here to register. SALES AND PRICING INFORMATION For sales and pricing information regarding the NLINK Product Suite please contact: . TECHNICAL INFORMATION For more information regarding the technical details of the NLINK product solutions please contact: .