Every manufacturing plant needs to operate as efficiently as possible within the limits of its budget. In the past, this goal was almost impossible for most manufacturing sites because of the lack of integration between plant systems and business systems. Discover how enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA), allows you to improve your business processes without an expensive IT integration project. With enterprise SOA, you can replace or add components to create new processes: the software version of plug and play. The benefits for manufacturers implementing an enterprise SOA include a single investment in integration, improved business processes, decreased costs per service elimination of middleware and more.