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. 

Repost, with comments: Global Packaging Machinery Market to Reach $41.8 Billion by 2017

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Packaging operations growth requires these manufacturers to turn to solutions that facilitate better process visibility, performance, and throughput.The packaging operation is where manufacturers typically have the most losses, bottlenecks and inventory challenges (for example, unexplained losses due to packaging malfunctions, material deficiencies, or labeling misadjustments).

These solutions typically center around MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) since they fully provide the visibility, and control, for packaging operations.  Coupled with Workflow,  you can have closed-loop remediation and alarm management execution to ensure that you are always responding to similar conditions in the same manner, detailing specific processes, routes, and people that can be assigned to any condition.  Click here for a white paper detailing how you can couple Wonderware MES with Wonderware Workflow and gain those packaging efficiencies.