Wonderware Performance Software - WONDERWARE - #2

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The result is that modern manufacturers and industrial operations now have more power to incrementally increase the size and functionality of their plant applications using low risk deployment techniques – one step at a time, as requirements evolve. Keep Operators Focused on Improving Asset Utilization Operators need real-time information on equipment downtime and efficiency to help them drive higher asset utilization. Performance Software provides new ArchestrA graphic templates for equipment downtime Pareto charts and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) core components; availability, performance and quality. In addition, a production progress graphic is provided to allow operators to see how actual production is progressing relative to a production target value. All of these graphics are highly customizable and offer inheritance and duplication capabilities along with the ability to pass new parameter values at runtime so the displays are always showing the information the operator needs at any given moment. Equipment performance metric displays can be created and saved as corporate standards and reused throughout your manufacturing enterprise to save time and to provide a common view of equipment performance. Develop and Leverage Best Practices To sustain top performance you need to be able to develop and implement best operating practices including the equipment monitoring strategies you employ. The Wonderware ArchestrA object-based approach facilitates the development and distribution of equipment monitoring standards. Using detailed equipment performance information derived from the Wonderware Performance Software solution allows your team to compare similar equipment or even production lines – knowing the data is derived in the same way (apples to apples comparisons). You can examine your best performing equipment and production lines in detail. This information assists you in the formulation of best operating practices and exposes process improvements that have the biggest bang for the buck. Maintenance is also simplified through the inheritance of characteristics. Specific parameters associated with base objects can be modified then all objects derived from this base object will automatically be updated with the new parameter value. Considering most manufacturing and process plants today have thousands of pieces of equipment, this can save Engineering or IT departments a significant amount of time. It also encourages plants to fine tune their monitoring strategies as less time is required to do so. Performance Software is integrated with the Wonderware System Platform. All system configuration activities are performed using the Wonderware Integrated Development Environment or IDE. The IDE is a single point of contact when building your equipment performance solution as well as your plant automation applications. Your entire set of plant automation, process analysis and reporting solutions can be developed and maintained on a single software platform.