Case Study: Making VP’63 Timely

This chapter continues the case study that we have been carrying throughout the book: The VP’63 (VintagePort’63) Large-Scale Information System. The wine company has planned to automate some of its industrial facilities and needs to guarantee two objectives: to implement distributed real-time control and automation of some units such as wine processing and bottling/corking; to incorporate the real-time supervisory, control and acquisition (SCADA) into the global enterprise resource planning and information system, under a CIM perspective.