DEC-BASEstarIntergrationPlatform

The BASEstar Integration Platform by Digital is a software solution designed to help manufacturers create integrated automated manufacturing solutions. Its core purpose is to improve product quality and lower production costs by facilitating the seamless exchange of critical data between manufacturing operations, devices, and applications.

Key aspects of the platform include:

• Flexible Foundation: It provides a "building-block approach" rather than rigid, ready-made applications, allowing manufacturers to create flexible, extensible solutions tailored to specific business needs.
• Integration Capabilities: BASEstar integrates data from existing applications and factory-floor devices (like programmable controllers and robots), protecting current investments, and also supports the creation of new applications for data sharing.
• Scalability and Adaptability: Manufacturers can "start small" and gradually expand their solutions. The platform ensures "application independence," meaning software is tied to data definitions rather than specific data sources, making applications adaptable to changes in factory configurations and reusable across different plants, thereby maximizing development efforts and lowering maintenance costs.
• Core Features: It offers standard software functions such as data management, distributed messaging, a callable interface for programmers, event coordination, and generic factory device access. It leverages Digital's VAX architecture and DECnet networking capabilities for distributed processing.
• Comprehensive Support: Digital delivers BASEstar as a packaged solution (PASS) with software, documentation, and a warranty. It's supported worldwide by Digital's experienced consultants who provide a full range of professional services, including needs analysis, design, implementation, training, and ongoing support for enterprise-wide integration.

In essence, BASEstar aims to provide a robust, adaptable, and cost-effective foundation for computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), enabling manufacturers to overcome the hurdles of traditional, inflexible systems.