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News Release from: Citect | Subject: Industrial Information Management solutions
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 August 2004
Real-time information improves
productivity
Industrial information management software enables manufacturing industries to achieve incremental cost reductions and improved productivity, as a result of providing real-time information.
Citect's Industrial Information Management (IIM) solutions enable manufacturing and utility industries to achieve incremental cost reductions and improved productivity, as a result of providing more meaningful, real-time business information to key decision-makers These benefits are provided from a low risk investment, which delivers significant ROI in a typical 6-12 month period
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 20 Feb 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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CitectIIMT solutions enable organisations to control factors which drive their business by aligning and measuring production key performance indicators, (KPIs), such as asset utilisation and overall equipment efficiencies, against business strategies.
The resulting real-time information removes guesswork and uncertainty, enabling key personnel to take prioritised action to deliver fast and incremental returns to their business.
IIM systems are designed to gather data from all areas and data sources within an enterprise (ERP, SCADA, LIM) - from the business level as well as the plant floor level, and provide real time analysis of this data to drive continuous process improvements, cost reductions and improvements in productivity.
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IIM is designed to take over the role traditionally provided by ERP systems, which have proved expensive and cumbersome when used for such key tasks as data gathering across all levels of an enterprise, data analysis, and presentation of data in formats that are easily understandable.
IIM performs all of these key tasks simply and efficiently via a suite of dynamic analysis modules, all of which are deployed to suit a company's specific business.
As each new module sits on the same single platform, CitectIIM solutions provide incremental value whilst lowering customers' total cost of ownership.
By leveraging open technologies and complementing existing automation and IT systems, they provide a low risk investment, with significant ROI being typically delivered in 6-12 months.
The IIM modules target different aspects of the production system for improvement by focusing on specific aspects of the process, and automatically gathering information about it.
The data is then presented in a manner that makes it easy for management to clearly understand the main bottlenecks to production performance, causes of down time and poor product quality.
At the same time, other IIM modules can be targeting regulated needs such as traceability of batches, or specification conformance, while maintenance scheduling and cost management utilizes actual run-time data to reduce costs and improve operating efficiency.
IIM solutions are deployed in a modular approach, enabling organisations to get the highest return in the shortest possible time.
Each module is tightly integrated with existing systems allowing companies to actively monitor, analyse, report and measure efficiencies in the key areas driving their business, whether they are Production, Quality, Downtime or Tracking.
Leveraging information from the combined modules, CitectIIM Metrics is a powerful, fully integrated diagnostics system, producing key performance indicators (KPI) for analysis and measurement.
In one of the first applications for the new technology, Citect's IIM Downtime module is being employed by one of Australia's largest mining companies to reduce costly unscheduled stoppages.
The IIM module is providing the methodology for analysing downtime, for connecting the plant's multiple servers, and for collecting and analysing information and making it available in a simple format, allowing managers to view the plant's availability, prioritise maintenance and optimise uptime.
The benefits expected from this installation are savings of $1 million over a two- year period. Request a free brochure from Citect ...
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