Put Your Plant Network On the Internet.GE Cisco Industrial Networks, Charlottesville, Va., is a new business formed by GE Industrial Systems of Plainville, Conn., a specialist in factory control and automation, and Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. of San Jose, Calif., the world leader in networking for the Internet. Their new venture will design and install networks to connect plant-floor manufacturing environments with enterprise-wide communications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. (enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. ), VMI VMI Virginia Military Institute VMI Vendor Managed Inventory VMI Vertical Motion Index VMI Valtakunnan Metsien Inventointi (Finnish: National Forest Inventory) VMI Video Module Interface (vendor-managed inventory), and e-commerce. The new firm will use the Ethernet open standard network protocol to make factory-floor, ERP, and VMI data available anytime, anywhere via a simple browser. |
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