Align your plants and enterprise for efficient manufacturing

Integrate your manufacturing with the rest of your enterprise – and manage complex interdependencies. Our comprehensive solutions for manufacturing operations can help you drive down costs, improve safety and quality, maximize asset utilization, and increase responsiveness.

  • Capture key quality and safety indicators with integrated shift logs, operating and maintenance data, LIMS, and QM
  • Align enterprise and plant operations and resources for global coordination and local execution
  • Integrate and standardize planning and scheduling processes to optimize plant-level operations
  • Connect manufacturing controls with processes and standards across all phases of execution

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Solutions for Manufacturing

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  • Manufacturing Operations

    Integrate enterprise-level planning and control with plant operations and manufacturing – for end-to-end efficiency.

    • Adapt quickly to changes in customer orders by coordinating manufacturing with local execution
    • Use standardized practices to plan and schedule production – for optimal performance
    • Integrate manufacturing controls with industry standards – for competitive advantage
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  • Manufacturing Visibility and Performance

    Gain real-time visibility into key performance indicators for assets and
    manufacturing operations.

    • Quickly integrate proprietary plant systems and business data into a unified dashboard
    • Enable access to real-time and historical data to provide a platform for improvement
    • Optimize maintenance and plant operations through best practices and real-time measurement
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  • Operational Risk Management

    Take a holistic approach to operational risk management by providing visibility into operations and supporting environment, health, and safety compliance.

    • Provide stakeholders with visibility into operational risks across processes and departments
    • Keep people and the environment safe with effective investigation and reporting processes
    • Ensure asset safety by conducting reliability-centered maintenance and management of work permits
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  • Asset Operations and Maintenance

    Integrate maintenance with plant planning and scheduling, service procurement, and spare parts management – for a proactive approach to maintenance and faster problem resolution.

    • Proactively monitor equipment and use preventive and predictive maintenance techniques
    • Get timely equipment information by integrating plant systems – and react quickly to problems
    • Automate the entire service and spare parts procurement process
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  • Asset Portfolio and Project Management

    Synchronize capital projects with asset portfolio, performance, and information management – for enhanced control and return on capital employed.

    • Improve asset portfolio management by integrating processes and assessing risks and priorities
    • Streamline capital project management by consistently posting and monitoring financial information
    • Manage asset information by enabling collaboration and electronic handover of information
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  • Energy and Environmental Resource Management

    Track, trace, and report on energy consumption and emissions at the equipment level – and drive global Six Sigma initiatives.

    • Reduce carbon emissions liability through making energy consumption and emissions visible
    • Ensure compliance with laws and policies, providing tools to reduce and report emissions
    • Integrate energy costs and emissions penalties into planning and budgeting
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  • Closed Loop Quality Management

    Ensure customer satisfaction by consistently meeting regulatory and quality standards.

    • Reduce compliance costs
    • Begin quality planning during the product design phase
    • Increase access to quality management information across the company
    • Create a solid foundation for quality inspection processes
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