Processes and Integration Scenarios with SAP PCo

PCo supports the following processes and integration scenarios:

  • Notification Process

    The notification process enables you to monitor production facilities and record any sudden, undesired events and report them to a destination system. However, you can also use this process to record regularly occurring, desired events such as confirmations.

  • Query Process (with SAP MII)

    You use the query process if you want to query tags from a query-capable source system, starting from an SAP MII system, for example.

  • Integration with the SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud

    You use cloud integration if you want to connect instances of PCo with business applications of the SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud. This enables information to be exchanged between, on the one hand, systems installed on the shop floor or Internet-enabled devices, and on the other hand, SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud applications.

  • PCo as OPC UA Server

    You can configure agent instances of Plant Connectivity as OPC UA servers. If it is started as an OPC UA server, the agent instance can receive and process method calls from OPC UA clients.

  • PCo Web Server

    PCo agent instances can be run as Web servers or as OPC UA servers. The Web server provides methods in the form of service operations that can be executed using Web service calls from Web clients. All current Web service standards such as SOAP, OData, and REST are supported.

  • Integration with Third-Party Systems Using Web Services (WS Destination System)

    You can use PCo directly to transfer data from production to a third-party system, such as an SAP ME system. To do this, you can use the notification process. You can subscribe to specific tags of the data source. When specific events occur, PCo sends notification messages to the destination system by means of a Web service call.

  • Integration with Third-Party Systems Using Enhanced Notification Processing (ENP)

    Enhanced notification processing (ENP) enables you to flexibly control and document the data flow in production in connection with various destination systems, for example, with Web services. In this way, you can connect a third-party system (such as SAP ME) to PCo and transfer data from machine level to the desired SAP ME activity using Web service calls.

  • Connection of Web Applications via WebSocket

    The WebSocket network protocol, in accordance with specification RFC6455, allows a high-performance, network-resource-efficient communication between a WebSocket server and a Web application configured as a WebSocket client.

  • Connection of External Data Sources to Bus. Suite Applications

    SAP Plant Connectivity (PCo) easily facilitates the communication between SAP Business Suite applications and external data sources such as weighing systems, production machines, OPC servers, or process control systems.

  • Integration with SAP ODA

    If you are using SAP ODA or intend to do so in the future, you can use the Plant Connectivity component to establish the connection to an OPC server instead of using the SAP ODA Connector.