The many faces of integration.(Data integration) From: Sensors Magazine | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Questex Media Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Integration involves more than data. It encompasses a myriad of tools, systems, models, standards, and functions. But you can boil down this complex process into three distinct integration models: data consistency, application integration, and process integration.

Whether your data come from sensors, control devices, or production management systems, one of the first steps toward integration is to create data consistency across various independent applications. You need an environment where transactional information--information that is updated, modified, or ...

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