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Integration of industrial applications has been and still is a major problem for industrial enterprises. Development of new manufacturing applications and integmtion of existing ones is hampered by a number of problems, such as heterogeneity of hardware and operating systems, complexity and non harmonisation of application programming interfaces, diversity of communication protocols, user interfaces and databases involved in the applications. The ESPRIT CCE-CNMA has specified, implemented and validated an open and portable platform for integration of industrial applications. This platform, called CCE (CIME Computing Environment), hides the diversity in communication protocols, databases and access methods to the user. It provides high level interfaces that allow the user to concentrate on his application domain and not on the way to program his application. In this paper, we review the problems faced during integration, describe the CCE architecture and discuss the relationship between CCE and the CIMOSA integrating infmstructure.

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