Business Process Management for the Chemicals Industry

The chemical industry faces a number of operational and environmental challeges:

• skilled manpower shortage and loss of process knowledge due to an aging workforce
• high energy and raw material costs, with dwindling profit margins
• stringent regulatory and environmental compliance  requirements
• lack of "off the shelf" communication and collaboration tools
• insufficient automated decision support systems, such as operational indicators and dashboards to provide system-wide Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)

Adding to these challenges, companies are tasked with responding to market demands, delivering ever-higher levels of quality products, and ensuring containment of operating costs.

What is a company to do?

Case Study: Collaboration in the Food and Beverage Industry Using Business Process Management

 

For the Food and Beverage Industry, keeping profitable operations means an informed workforce, tuned equipment, and quick response to any adverse or unplanned conditions.
For many organizations, standardized practices are critical for maintaining a baseline that can be measured and improved, especially if multiple locations are involved.

Business Process Management, or BPM, is a collaboration solution that allows organizations to establish baseline processes that can be standardized and deployed over multiple lines and sites. The food and beverage industry is a great example of an industry that can benefit from BPM, since they establish SOP's (Standard Operating Procedures) and implement, enforcing predicable and optimized performance.

An example is a Wonderware customer who is a leading blottler for a major global beverage brand in Europe.

Fun with Wordle: Wonderware Workflow

  Need real-time collaboration between people, systems and equipment? Closed-loop remediation for procedures such as CAPA (Corrective and Preventative Action) or alarm management?  Wonderware Workflow is your answer.  It can join your business systems with your operations by enforcing tasks, procedures, or activities. It can ensure specific actions are taken upon an event, such as a quality failure, emergency shut down, or line stoppage.  For more information on how you can use Wonderware Workflow to improve your operations, check here.

Free seminar: The Cloud for Industry

Hosted by Microsoft and Invensys, featuring Saugatuck Technology. Chicago, Nov 12 or Boston, Nov 14. Join us for a deep-dive into technology and solutions to help you gain scalability, productivity in your operations!

 

 

This seminar series has proved to be popular with customers who want more than just a passing discussion on why they should consider the cloud.  Experts from Microsoft and Invensys discuss the practicalities of the cloud--from security through device management, to applications that you can use now to gain efficiencies in your enterprise. 

 

We've added Saugatuck Technologies, a leading cloud industry analyst, to give you an impartial view of the momentum, and impact, the cloud is making on industry.

 

Lastly, there will be time for hands-on experiences with our cloud-based SmartGlance smart device-enabled reporting application, to see how you can put the power of the cloud to use for you.  

 

So register now--it's free, and it's local.  We'll see you in Boston or Chicago!

Wonderware Workflow Enables Operations Execution Excellence for Fujirebio Diagnostics--A Success Story

http://youtu.be/77totZj5bJ8

Hot off the presses--a video showing how Wonderware Workflow was used successfully in a validated environment to assist in the execution of operations management for cancer marker manufacturer Fujirebio Diagnostics, out of Malvern, PA.

We've talked before how workflow can enable collaboration, task management, process enforcement, and cross-enterprise application integration.  The use of Wonderware Workflow helps Fujirebio maintain compliance, visibility, and costs within a fast-paced, regulated environment.

To see Ken Kovacs in person, why not join us for the Invensys Software Conference & Technical Support Symposium on October 14-17 in Dallas, TX?  Ken will be speaking on "Implementing an Operations Information Infrastructure" on Wednesday, and will be available for questions afterward.   There's still plenty of time for you to register!