So you might have noticed the lack of postings in the past couple of months…  Simply put, I have decided to take an opportunity outside Avid Solutions.  With that being said – “Level3” will continue, but have a new home (along with me).  I would like to thank Avid Solutions and all my peers for their support and assistance with the blog over the past year – matter of fact there are two other blogs created by others at Avid that I would encourage you to read:

• The ArchestrAnaut – a blog dedicated to all issues of the Wonderware Archestra System Platform

• Automate-ZEN – a blog created for the automation professional with aspirations to simplify their career by adding value and humor to their life.

You can find our new home for the Level3 blog at savigent.blogspot.com  – please remember to update your feeds!

- Jimmy Asher

Welcome to Level3…a manufacturing information space blog.  Here we will discuss a variety of topics related to the space that sits between the PLCs/DCSs controlling your manufacturing process and the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).  We will tend to focus on integrating from the ‘Shop-Floor’ up as opposed to ERP down or “Big Bang” MES packages.  Posts will be generated by several of us here at Avid, some leading experts outside of Avid, and hopefully comments by users too.

Some of the topics we have planned are:  Historians, Reporting, OEE, KPIs, Networking, Virtualization and so forth…