Key Solution Systems de Mexico Uses Wonderware Workflow for Process Facilitation

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Solutions partner Key Solution Systems de Mexico implements complex projects in the MES space.  This case study is an compilation of their experience using Wonderware and Microsoft technologies, together, to enhance and improve project development, roll out and performance.  It's a great story and we thank Key Solution for their contribution!

Case Study: DICS Intertrade Benefits from Microsoft/Wonderware Partnership

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DICS Intertrade was faced with the task of integrating their business and automation systems. Although a variety of approaches could be used, they turned to Wonderware and Microsoft for a solution--and in turn, gaining efficiences of greater than 30% in productivity, time to market, and not surprisingly, technology adoption.

Food Company Gains Improvements through Wonderware/Microsoft Partnership

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Wonderware and Microsoft have had a longstanding partnership, spanning almost 25 years.  During that time, a software revolution occurred--Windows for manufacturing, .NET, OPC, and now, the cloud.  We wanted to find out how our customers perceived the value of this relationship, and so you'll see a number of #TechValidate posts from me on the benefits customers have gained.  Want to see the entire library of assets?  Go here.

Repost, from SmartBrief: Cloud Adoption

SmartPulse

Does your company continually embrace new cloud technologies?

No	54.55%
Yes	45.45%

#Wonderware and #Microsoft have been working together for over 3 years developing cloud-based solutions for productivity and operations. Yet this poll reflects what others are saying--that industry is not yet ready for the cloud. 

Why is that?  I think a number of factors are at play:

• The applications are too specific.  The cloud needs to take an entire factory's applications, and virtualize them.  Mix and match may be too difficult to maintain.
• The applications that are cloud-based may not solve the difficult problems.  Reporting is simple in the cloud, but reporting can be done in a variety of ways, and it may not be enough to go through the IT hurdles to get a cloud solution adopted.
• Education.  It still may not be apparent that either cloud solutions are available, or that they are relevant to a particular function, like plant-wide reporting.
• Security.  Companies are still reeling from security breaches such as StuxNet. Their IP is their lifeblood, and they aren't exposing it if solutions are available that do not have the same perceived risk.

On the other hand, the cloud is a tremendous boon to those companies that may not have the infrastructure, nor talent, to build and maintain applications such as plant reporting, plant data collection, plant intelligence. 

So it is up to us as an industry to continue to break down these barriers to adoption.  Education, success stories, finding the right markets--they all contribute to the proliferation of a solution that really helps industry scale, cost effectively, and easily adopt new technologies.

Carson City, Nevada - A "Smart City" Success Story

I've just started to delve into the water utility industry, and it's pretty fascinating. The pressures on these companies--to provide us with a consistent, clean, safe water supply, while ensuring profitable, compliant operations--is admirable.

Altprofits reports that the use of water has increased 35 fold over the past three centuries. The water/wastewater industry is in constant need of refurbishment, refinement, to continue to meet the demands of an ever-growing population.

Wonderware has supplied water/wastewater solutions to this industry for more than 25 years, helping them to visualize, report on operations, and manage assets for peak performance.  This success story from Carson City Nevada tells a great story on being responsie and prepared to meet their citizen's needs.

Want to hear more?  We're having a webinar with ControlGlobal.com on Tuesday, June 24 at 2PM EDT.  We'll feature Carson City's James Jacklett and Schneider Electric's Saadi Kermani, sharing their story of effectively meeting operations needs using Wonderware solutions.

Repost, with comments: FMI’s Surfing Lessons

http://www.progressivegrocer.com/top-stories/headlines/on-our-minds/id40791/fmis-surfing-lessons/

 

I read this article with interest, not for the "surfing" aspects but for the Toffler similarities, mapping the transformations of the food industry to the development undergone by the industrial automation industry. The two industries are interconnected for a number of reasons: one, due to the supplier/provider relationship--the food industry, like the automotive industry, is one of the key consumers (and drivers) of the automation market.  Their needs--for faster, more accurate production, operations visibility; deep quality functional integration, more advanced analytics, reporting, and control, are answered by the automation industry's developments for better Human Machine Interface products, the dashboards of Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence software, and the convenience of mobile-based reporting. 

 

Taking technology advances and making them usable solutions--that's the focus of industrial automation.

Fun with #Wordle: #Corporate Energy Management

If you need to understand the energy demands of your organization, and would like to see real-time energy consumption from the meter, consider Wonderware Corporate Energy Management software.

Fun with Wordle: #Wonderware MES

Wordle (www.wordle.net) is a fun program to creatively depict words as pictures. Here's our rendition of what Wonderware MES Solutions customer benefits would look like.  I think it makes a point: the speed, customer satisfaction, and operations improvement are obvious!

Invensys Software Conference & Technical Support Symposium: It Was The Place To Be!

 

opening session of Invensys Software Conference & Tech Support Symposium

 

What can you say about a conference offering over 190 sessions, outstanding customer speakers, compelling product roadmaps and unexpected social events? You'd say, another fine Wonderware/IntelaTrac/SimSci/Avantis party!

The 2013 Invensys Software Conference was titled "The Industrial Software Revolution Begins Now" and it delivered. Featuring presentations from Invensys, new family member InduSoft, global partner Microsoft, the conference covered not only customer case story successes, but technical tips & tricks from the field support engineers, product updates from all brands, and educational tracks from the Technical Support Symposium speakers. Whether you were there for a "one chili pepper" high level product overview to a "four chili pepper" technical deep dive, there was something for everyone's taste.

Something new this year was our social media challenge--who could tweet enough content over the 3 days to win a gift card? With over 250 tweets, the winner was the @everdyners group.

Other highlights were:

Early Bird Announcement: Invensys Software Customer Conference - North America

Save the date!  Registration site is forthcoming:
Invensys Software Customer Conference - North America Dates: 10/15/2013 - 10/16/2013 Venue: Hilton Anatole Hotel | Dallas, Texas

Invensys Software Customer Conference - North America
Dates: 10/15/2013 - 10/16/2013
Venue: Hilton Anatole Hotel | Dallas, Texas
Visit the event website: http://iom.invensys.com/EN/Pages/CustomerConferenceSeries.aspx


This conference will provide in-depth coverage of our capabilities across Process Design, Training Simulation, Optimization, Trading, Planning and Scheduling, Manufacturing Operations Management (MES), Asset Management, Production Information Management and HMI & Supervisory. We’ll also cover the solutions enabled by these software components, as well as insight to how our partners are creating innovative solutions to provide outstanding value across many industries.  Featuring the brands you know & use: Avantis for Enterprise Asset Management; SimSci for optimization, training & simulation needs; and Wonderware, the world's leading HMI and operations management products.