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From Automation Engineering to Efficiency, Quality, Production and Batch Management

The Plant Applications (formerly Mountain Systems Proficy for Manufacturing) are a natural extension to HMI/SCADA software that enables manufacturers to save millions of dollars in operational costs. It is a requirement for manufacturers to achieve today's demands for greater operational performance and an ideal software platform for Production Managers to optimize their operations, Black Belts to drive six sigma initiatives and Quality Managers to comply with regulations such as 21 CFR Part 11.

While HMI/SCADA software provides visibility and control into machinery and equipment, Plant Applications provide a more comprehensive view of the entire production operation, including information such as:
• Tracking how products and WIP flowed through the plant for product genealogy needs and scheduling improvement initiatives to reduce inventory.
• Tracking overall equipment efficiency and the reasons for downtime and waste for making smart capital expenditure purchases and improving maintenance procedures to increase throughput.
• Analyzing product quality to determine reasons for waste & inconsistencies to take corrective actions.

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Modules 

The solution allows for an incremental or "stepped" approach to purchasing, installing and implementing the right functionality at the right time. A number of powerful Plant Application modules are available depending upon your needs. These modules typically include the following: • Efficiency Management Providing insight into overall equipment effectiveness, giving you a comprehensive view of equipment uptime, downtime and waste production - the Efficiency Management module is ideal for improving the throughput of a plant without additional equipment expenditure.

• Quality Management 

Offering insight into how products are actually produced against their specifications and ideal conditions, Quality Management is ideal for improving the quality of products and reducing waste.

• Production Management

 Improving and controlling how products actually flow through the plant by tracking production against specifications and schedules, Production Management is ideal for product genealogy reporting as well as making scheduling changes to reduce WIP and overall inventory.

• Batch Analysis

 Increasing consistency and quality of batch related processes through a comprehensive set of analysis of and reporting capabilities, the Batch Analysis module provides the necessary tools to drive production improvements.

• Plant Wide Reporting

Provides a series of standard web-based reports and dashboards for monitoring operations, with full drill-down, interactive capabilities to identify "root-cause" problem areas and take corrective actions.

Unique in the Market Place

  The Plant Applications are the most cost-effective and valuable automation engineering applications in the marketplace today. Highly differentiated from other (MES) Manufacturing Execution Systems, the Plant Applications provide a:
 • Complete Solution
 All Plant Applications are closely integrated into GE Fanuc's overall Solution, providing the best and most complete solution in the market for meeting today's manufacturing demands and for achieving greater operational performance.

• Open
 Leveraging customers' existing plant automation systems, our solution seamlessly works with both GE Fanuc solutions as well as WonderWare, Rockwell, OSI PI, Honeywell and many others.

• Flexible and Easy to Configure
 Unlike most Manufacturing Execution Systems that require significant services and address only a single vertical market, each of the Plant Applications can easily be customized to fit most needs but requires minimal services to install.

• Modular and Scalable
 The modular and scaleable approach to deploying Plant Applications enables users to purchase only what they need based on their business requirements, and then expand when they want.

• Secure & Audited
 All of the applications provide a secure audited environment including electronic signatures and other capabilities to ensure users can adhere to 21 CFR Part 11.

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