The Intelligent Enterprise - Components Part 3

The third part on the series on the Need for an Intelligent Enterprise

By Cronin Almeida, Invensys

What makes an enterprise intelligent is that now a days, anything can be instrumented.  Any parameter that plays even a slight role can be measured, documented and made visible. This has enabled real time information to be available across the enterprise. Intelligence and Workflow software along with traditional HMI/Historian software  are the solutions available to help enterprises process and act on this information in real time. The combination of these two products along with an HMI/Historian  enables the stitching of the entire manufacturing ecosystem. Disparate systems like production planning, production execution, quality control can be made to react to specification changes, supply chain availability, environmental regulations and other industry parameters. 

The Intelligent Enterprise

The Intelligent Enterprise

The second part on this series on the Need for an Intelligent Enterprise

by Cronin Almeida, Invensys

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In evolution, the lack of intelligence has lead to extinction.  The same applies to Industrial enterprises these days. Intelligence is necessary for organizations to compete, stay lean, employ best practices and stay relevant to changing market conditions. Digital and physical infrastructure in the manufacturing and process domains are converging.  Computational power is being used in places unheard of. Organizations all over are becoming digitally aware and networked.

New Series: The Intelligent Enterprise

by Cronin Almeida and Maryanne Steidinger

Intelligent Enterprise – The way ahead for an Integrated Enterprise. This is a series of blog posts that delves into the various aspects that constitute an Intelligent Enterprise.   

Wikipedia defines the "Intelligent Enterprise" as a management approach that applies technology and new service paradigms to the challenge of improving business performance. An Intelligent Enterprise has to adapt, adopt, and respond to changing market conditions, new economic environments, supply chain variations and customer demands. All of this has to be done in a flexible environment for operations to optimally run.