Workflow Software Connects People and Machines

Workflow Software Connects People and Machines

ArchestrA Workflow was represented at the Foxboro/Triconex Annual User Group!  Read how Steve Golemme provides background and context on the use and applications that workflow can enable.

ArchestrA Workflow Software for the Oil & Gas Industry

ArchestrA Workflow is "industrial" Business Process Management (BPM) software.  It is used within industry to standardize decision making, make operations more predictable and routine, and enforce collaboration between process stakeholders. Today we'll look at an industry-specific use of ArchestrA Workflow: for the Oil and Gas Industry.

Top Ten Reasons for Using ArchestrA Workflow Software

ArchestrA Workflow Software is foundational software to help you manage, collaborate, standardize and control operations, events, and activities.  Not sure of why to use?  Let me give you the top ten reasons:

1. Real time Process Institutionalization.  ArchestrA Workflow Software ensures that processes are adhered to, organizationally-wide, and in real time, by making your unique practices part of your Standard Operating Procedures.

2. Enable plant-wide collaboration.  Stakeholders get context specific information, and ensure timely concurrent activities are executed.

3. Proliferate best practices. Good manufacturing practices can be made part of the "system of record" to ensure compliance of operations, replication of optimum procedures, and minimized variations in practice.

4. Ensure comprehensive compliance management. Meticulously maintain audit trails, eliminate messy paperwork while ensuring that work processes are streamlined.

5.  Schedule regular assessments.  Ensure asset excellence with system-based, timely assessments of equipment and their performance.  Contribute to effective utilization, uptime and corrective action.

Using BPM/Workflow in the Pharmaceutical Industry

A primary focus of the pharmaceutical industry is the capture and standardization of operating practices.  Repeatability, documentation, and compliance to regulations are at the forefront of any pharma operation. 

A typical pharmaceutical manufacturer will have industrial automation and software applications that manage the physical operations--Programmable Logic Controllers or Distributed Control Systems, handling the temperatures, speeds, movement and packaging; batch recipe management to handle recipes,  procedures and processes, such as Clean In Place; Recipe validation; audit trails; and version control; and sensors and other discrete automation devices which contribute to authentication, confirmation, and location of the products as they travel through the process.

There is something more that these manufacturers can do...add workflow to their solution stack.