MII -- MES Integration

Hi,
We have a situation where MES System is Integrated to Shopfloor devices such as Sensor's, PLC's and HMI's and they have the Database where they gone a save the captured data and MII needs to read that data and capture them in dashboards, till here I am able to understand but how the data flow will be if ERP is sending the downstream data to MES and then MES sends the confirmations to ERP, I mean how database can be used in such scenario.
Thanks,
Raveen

Hi ,
Which MES you are using in your shopfloor.if it is SAP ME then we will store data in WIP database which is SAP ME database then you can send to SAP or get it from SAP.
Thanks,
Ramesh

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