Congratulations to Tableau Software, Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence!

http://www.tableausoftware.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-2014?elq=5938dccfe6504b648a2774e26c73bd41

Invensys is proud to have its Wonderware Intelligence Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence product feature the dashboarding & visualization capabilities of Tableau Software. Not only is it the leading BI product on the market, but customers can enjoy an single tool for the enterprise--no longer do you have to purchase one dashboard for the plant, and another for the business.  Tableau with Wonderware Intelligence scales to multiple plants, multiple lines or sites. Wide integration capabilities make it simple to connect to plant and enteprise data sources, for a "single view of the truth."

Fun with Wordle: Wonderware Intelligence Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence Software

Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) software takes discrete events and relates them, provides context to them, and presents them in an interactive, informative dashboard in the form of Key Performance Indicators, or KPI's.  Companies use EMI software to help them to determine relationships between actions such as energy consumption by shift, or yield and throughput by line or equipment.  It allows for "if then" analysis, to help you make better decisions on staffing, loading, or production optimization. Wonderware Intelligence can connect to any plant source, such as data historians or MES products, and bring key information together for analysis and decision making.  It creates and enforces a plant model for easy data configuration, with templates available for most Wonderware applications, including MES and Corporate Energy Management.

Repost, with comments: New Whitepaper on Survey Data: Less Ugly, More Understandable

 http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/blog/2014/1/new-whitepaper-survey-data-less-ugly-more-understandable-27812

Wonderware Intelligence uses Tableau for dashboard & visualization for operational intelligence

It's been no secret that for over 4 years, Wonderware has been a close partner of Tableau Software, using its award-winning Business Intelligence tool for our own visualization and dashboarding of Wonderware Intelligence Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence software.  Using best-of-breed Tableau, we offer customers flexibility, market-leading performance, and deep domain experience for effectively building and displaying information-rich, intuitive charts and graphs that reflect the real-time industrial process.

Tableau just released a good white paper on making your data beautiful...I've included the link and believe it's worth your time to read, and learn from a leader.

Wonderware Intelligence: The Top 5 New Tableau Features

by Jim Frider, Product Marketing Manager, Invensys

If you analyze data to improve the performance of your facility then you need to learn more about the exciting new data visualization features available with Wonderware Intelligence. 

At its core, Wonderware Intelligence helps industrial companies better understand the subtleties of their processes and equipment so they can make better decisions.  It helps manufacturing; processing and infrastructure companies organize their many data stores into a coherent information model which then can be rendered into brilliant data displays and charts.  Wonderware has partnered with Tableau Software, a leader in business intelligence software, to offer the most compelling data analytics available to the industrial marketplace.    

Tableau Software has released version 8.1 of their leading data visualization software.  This new release contains dozens of enhanced features to improve your data analytics.  Invensys engineers have reviewed this new release, and here is our list of the top 5 new Tableau 8.1 features.

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. 

Tableau Software Recognizes Members of Partner Community at Sixth Annual Tableau Customer Conference

http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/press-releases/2013/tableau-software-recognizes-members-partner-community-sixth-annual-tableau

Tableau's Dashboard for Wonderware Intelligence Visualization

Wonderware was proud to be chosen as Tableau's OEM Partner of the Year!  Wonderware uses Tableau's award-winning dashboard as an integral part of our Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence offering, using Tableau's strong visualization capabilities to create compelling dashboards that depict relationships and status of different plant entities, such as yields/shift, downtime by line, or comparisons of energy consumption by plant.

Top 5 Automation Applications Your Business Can’t Live Without

There’s a plethora of industrial software applications now available from a variety of vendors, both small, point-solutions based companies to the larger, all-in-one industrial automation vendors.  They offer everything from development environments through IT solutions.  But if you look at your critical needs, it comes down to using 5 applications:

IDC: Tablet shipments up 142% in Q1: What Does That Mean for Automation?

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We ran this ad a few months ago to demonstrate the adoption of mobile devices as a viewing agent on the plant floor.  Over the past year, the use for viewing, monitoring, and responding to tasks using mobile devices has surged.  The concern for BYOD (bringing your own device) in the plant has been replaced with an organized approach to procuring applications, from the business systems to the control systems, that can leverage the mobile platform.  Everything from databases to operations management applications are now running on mobile devices.

It's no surprise that the tablet would show greater growth--its ease of viewing and ability to present more information/data on the surface makes it a natural progression from the smaller form factor of the smart phone.  And since the majority of these devices are simply presentation layers, versus process control, the concern for remote access and security is diminished. 

We anticipate a continuing drive toward mobile devices for clients.  Invensys already has mobile support for Wonderware Intelligence, SimSci Esscor's EYESIM Immersive Virtual Reality training software; SmartGlance mobile reporting, Avantis Enterprise Asset Management, Wonderware Workflow...the list goes on.  It's in direct response to our customers that are looking for easier, more cost-effective ways of using our software. 

We'd like to hear from you--are you using innovative ways to integrate mobile technology into your plants?  Email me at maryanne.steidinger@invensys.com.

Just Released: Wonderware Intelligence Software 2012

Enhanced EMI software improves real-time access to operational decision support information

 

Wonderware Intelligence is Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) software with a difference--it not only connects to your plant databases, but ANY database that holds critical information that could be important to the way you monitor and operate your plant.

With the new release of Intelligence 2012, you gain additional mobile functionality, expanded Wonderware application integration, strong support of Wonderware System Platform, and client viewing options. For more information, just click here