Enterprise control is the ability to combine control, intelligence and process management to enable business optimization that is inclusive of business and production operations.
[5] The enterprise control strategy is built around the premise that manufacturing needs an enterprise control system to integrate business systems and manufacturing in real-time.
An enterprise control system is the open architecture framework to integrate control systems with the enterprise while adding functions to improve business performance including MES, optimization, workflow, quality management, and asset management.
[6] Purdue Reference Model, “95” provides a model that end users, integrators and vendors can share in integrating applications at key layers in the enterprise.
[7] This model influenced the ISA-95 (International Society of Automation) enterprise-control integration standards,[8] which expanded on the terms of the Purdue Reference Model and describes the interface between enterprise and control systems.