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In todays global economy, manufacturing industries require to connect disparate applications seamlessly, They require not only to exchange data and transactions, but present a single business process image to their employess in the office, headquarters, and on the plant floor. Also, it is imperative that small and medium size manufacturing companies deploy manufacturing execution system applications in conjunction with modem enterprise resource programs for cycle time reduction and better quality. This paper presents the experiences and reflections on a project that created a tool set to assist the above be accomplished not only in a shorter cycle time, with a better predictable quality, and with a object oriented framework, but also a tool set that allows the manufacturer to still use legacy applications. This framework has the capability of plug and play so that future migrations and re-engineering of processes are more productive.Downloaded From: http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/ on 06/20/2016 Terms of Use: http://spiedigitallibrary.org/ss/TermsOfUse.aspx 290 Before we evaluate the progress of the Framework for Adaptive Interoperability of Manufacturing Enterprises project and examine its achievements with respect to more traditional approaches for integration of applications that have different architectures and/or interfaces, we must give a brief summary of the FAIME project.