Customer Case Study: Reduced Compliance Efforts Using Wonderware MES

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This customer was able to achieve operational improvements, with a bonus--eased regulatory requirements reporting using the suite of solutions from Wonderware MES. 

What’s the Big Deal about Big Data?

Data is everywhere—lurking in our inboxes; languishing in our plant databases; and lingering in BI tools and analytics meant to provide insight, and intelligence to our everyday tasks.  Long ago I did an analysis of how many plant floor software applications a typical large manufacturing plant had—and it was well over 50.  This included legacy, custom, and commercial off-the-shelf applications for a variety of operations, from quality to production to maintenance.  That’s a lot of data hiding in a lot of applications. 

It’s logical to think that this data can be used for more than the sum of its parts—and that’s the foundation for products such as Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI). EMI puts real-time and near-real time transactional or plant data into context or relationships with one another, allowing users to define Key Performance Indicators that can be measured (or quantified) and monitored.  Think of quality by shift, energy usage by plant.  But is there more? 

A Look at Industrial Operational Management Environment in 2020

A Look at Industrial Operational Management Environment in 2020
by Tim Sowle, Invensys Fellow and VP of System Strategy at Invensys Operations Management

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Using MES in Your Centerlining Efforts

Centerlining, in simple terms, matrixes financial, quality, and product dimensions which can be measured and managed.  The simplest example of Centerlining would be a Continuous Improvement project around quality.  Understanding what affects quality (such as purity of ingredients, length of time processing, specific ways of material handling) makes it easier to establish the “norm” and thus manage the extent that you’ll accept outlier behavior.

So how does #MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) and other operations management solutions help with Centerlining?