SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is a very popular topic.  The term SOA has come to mean many things to manufacturers, suppliers, integrators, analysts, and the press, and the meanings cover technical, architecture, strategy, and other concepts.  Furthermore, practices differ by industry, and each business is in a different state of evaluation and adoption.

In order to help define the state and needs of Manufacturing SOA - the adoption, value, strategies and practices of enterprise-wide SOA within manufacturing and related industries - we are collecting information from end users, owner/operators, etc. who may be at various stages of adoption, or may have rejected SOA as a corporate strategy.