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News Release from: Invensys
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 March 2004
First Predictive Maintenance solution
order taken
Wonderware Strategic Integration Group has received the first purchase order for its Predictive Maintenance solution from the multinational Engelhard Corp.
Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys recently announced that the Wonderware Strategic Integration Group (WSIG) has received the first purchase order for its Predictive Maintenance solution from the multinational Engelhard Corp., a long term Wonderware and Avantis strategic customer The solution consists of a series of ArchestrA software objects that run on Wonderware's Industrial Application Server, which facilitates automated updates from the plant floor to drive maintenance work orders in a computerised maintenance management system (CMMS)
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 2 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"WSIG Predictive Maintenance solutions can yield high returns on investment," said Yves Dufort, WSIG's general manager and director of services.
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As part of the design of this Predictive Maintenance solution, an adapter for the MRO software's Maximo CMMS is also being created.
These offerings leverage Invensys' ArchestrA software architecture to link maintenance events and plant production data.
"We decided to implement the WSIG Predictive Maintenance solution because we expect it to reduce our MRO inventory, decrease planned and unplanned downtimes, and lower our labour costs for maintenance labour and overtime," said Gary Yacobian, senior engineer for Engelhard.
"It should also minimise disruptions in production by improving coordination between our maintenance and production activities." About Invensys' Wonderware and ArchestrA Business Units - Wonderware and ArchestrA are business units of Invensys Systems Wonderware is the world's leading supplier of industrial automation and information software.
Wonderware software powers intelligent plant decisions in real time.
ArchestrA technology provides a unified set of software services that enables every system in your plant, working in concert.
Wonderware provides industrial enterprises with the capability to rapidly deploy applications and realise the largest and fastest return on their investment by providing an integrated suite of automation software products that minimises life cycle creation, deployment and maintenance costs.
Wonderware has regional sales and development offices worldwide to provide support to its network of more than 160 distributor offices.
Wonderware has approximately 300,000 software licenses in 100,000 plants worldwide -- about 30% of the world's 335,000 plants with 20 or more employees About Invensys - Invensys is a global leader in production technology and solutions.
The group helps customers improve productivity, performance and profitability using innovative services and technologies and a deep understanding of their industries and applications.
Invensys business units work closely with customers to increase performance of production assets, maximise return on investment in production and data management technologies and remove cost and cash from the supply chain.
Leading Invensys brands focused on production management include APV, Avantis, Eurotherm, Foxboro, IMServ, SimSci-Esscor, Triconex and Wonderware.
These businesses address process and batch industries -- including oil and gas, chemicals, power and utilities, food and beverage, and personal health care -- and the discrete and hybrid manufacturing sectors.
Invensys operates in more than 60 countries, with its headquarters in London.
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