Growing your manufacturing business with application programming interfaces (API)

Connect your business systems to accelerate growth using APIs

Grow your manufacturing business by connecting systems with application programming interfaces (API). APIs can improve efficiency, flexibility and scalability within manufacturing organisations.

What is an API?

API stands for Application Programmer Interfaces.

An API is a component that enables you to connect and share data between a diverse range of platforms, apps and systems

It’s the software (the set of tools, modules, and protocols) that facilitates communication between two or more platforms, systems and/or applications. The API can initiate tasks or processes between applications.

Why use an API?

In today’s fast-paced and technologically advanced manufacturing landscape, you need to be able to pass data between systems.

It is no longer enough to have excellent systems handling individual aspects of the business. Systems must communicate and create a technology ecosystem, with each part working in synergy to make a cohesive whole.

With APIs, you can define and customise diverse manufacturing processes – making them flexible and robust enough to scale as your business grows.

APIs allow you to:

Integrate with suppliers
Support transactions and pricing
Define the Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) of each screen a production system uses.

Any provider using a cloud platform will have extensive APIs defined and available to your team. They will work in close collaboration with your development partners to fine-tune app performance.

Nowhere is this more true than for Dassault Systemes DELMIAWORKS.

Using DELMIAWORKS’ API can give your customers, partners and suppliers more agility and flexibility when it comes to customising enterprise systems.

APIs are defining the future of smart manufacturing

The following DELMIAWORKS API Maturity Model provides the context of how APIs must progress to provide greater contextual intelligence to enable prescriptive and cognitive workflows: